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Chief Procurement Officer Management supply chain software solutions 
ivalua
MARCH 16, 2020
Redwood City/Warsaw/ Hamburg – March 17th, 2020 | Ivalua, a leading global provider of procurement management solutions, and OptiBuy, Ivalua’s long-standing implementation partner, announced their selection by Körber to enable a digital procurement transformation.
ProcurePort
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The procurement landscape has changed a lot since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) have had to adapt quickly to disruptions in local, regional, and international supply chains. Top of the list has been […].
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From Rigid To Resilient: Why Enterprises Need Modular Commerce Now
Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains
ivalua
JUNE 15, 2022
Learn how Körber leveraged Ivalua’s software tools to automate and streamline tactical activities while keeping strategy front and center. The global supply chain is undergoing an incredible transformation that will change the way we do business. 5 BU’s: Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain, Tissue, and Tobacco.
Procurement Tactics
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Sustainable Supply Chain Consulting — The Ultimate Guide. Sustainable supply chain consulting firms are hired by many big businesses to help them with their goals. In this article, we will discuss what sustainable supply chain consulting firms are. What is Sustainability in Supply Chain?
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Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Procurement Priorities for 2025 and Beyond The manufacturing industry is evolving rapidly, leaving Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) grappling with challenges that could make or break their organizations. Solutions: Strategic Sourcing: Move beyond transactional purchasing and embrace strategic sourcing.
Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
And if your organization is big enough to need a Chief Procurement Officer , that person is directly or indirectly responsible for every stage of that journey. Although the terms may seem cumbersome, for senior management and company directors they provide a useful shorthand. the public sector).
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Jaggaer
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
JAGGAER characterizes the steps in this process as Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing , and Contracts. Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. These four steps constitute the downstream procure-to-pay part of the process. Its human nature.
Positive Purchasing
APRIL 6, 2023
If it does, then what’s important is who’s managing that machine? When it comes to buying data and digital solutions, the best approach to take is the same you’d use for basic change management. Should you invest in a software platform that can help aggregate data sources then show you, visually, what it is telling you?
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Procurement Insights
FEBRUARY 23, 2025
It’s important to note that while automation and artificial intelligence are expected to transform procurement functions, they may not necessarily lead to widespread job losses. Instead, these technologies could redefine roles, emphasizing strategic decision-making and relationship management over routine tasks.
Procurement Insights
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Here are 10 of the top procurement blogs in the industry, known for providing valuable insights, trends, and best practices: Spend Matters One of the most influential blogs in procurement, Spend Matters covers a wide range of procurement topics, including technology, supplier management, and sourcing trends.
HICX
APRIL 24, 2023
What did exist was Procurement, a function that did worked with all suppliers, albeit in one area: transactions. So, management ended the search and tasked Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) with this added job. To do it, CPOs quickly applied ‘point’ solutions, software that can deal with given use cases.
HICX
MARCH 17, 2023
This transformation leads to cost-saving metrics and helps generate accurate ESG reports, writes Costas Xyloyiannis, CEO of supply chain technology firm HICX. To manage it, business leaders had to ensure that compliance and readiness across multiple areas were captured, analyzed and reported. Unluckily, in most cases it did not.
Supply Chain Game Changer
OCTOBER 28, 2021
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement is a function that is undergoing an exciting transformation in the majority of global value chains; simultaneously, within its own strategy, process, and technology. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Dirty Little Secret #1.
Jaggaer
MAY 7, 2019
Let’s say, for example, a supplier of facility management fails to meet its contractual obligations, causing the bank to make substantial losses. The bank’s Chief Procurement Officer may want to change vendor. Procurement’s Role in the Banking Industry. How Choosing the Right Spend Management Solution Can Help.
Procurement Software
AUGUST 27, 2024
The Procurement Category Manager role has been the backbone of the procurement profession over the past 20 years. In larger organisations especially, it’s has been a symbol of procurement’s metamorphasis from an operational to more professional, strategic focus. So, how will this impact category management?
HICX
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
In the early 2000s I was a recent software engineering graduate. The CEO, who had just signed up to the UN Global Compact, needed to know how sustainable their supply chain was. He tasked the chief procurement officer (CPO) to audit their suppliers—some 150,000 of them.
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HICX
MARCH 17, 2023
In the early 2000s, I was a recent software engineering graduate. The CEO, who had just signed up for the UN Global Compact, needed to know how sustainable their supply chain was. He tasked the chief procurement officer (CPO) to audit their suppliers — some 150,000 of them.
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HICX
DECEMBER 3, 2022
In the early 2000s I was a recent software engineering graduate. The CEO, who had just signed up to the UN Global Compact, needed to know how sustainable their supply chain was. He tasked the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) to audit their suppliers – some 150,000 of them.
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Jaggaer
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
So, what is the best way for the procurement function to leverage disruptive technologies and help enterprises secure a sustainable competitive advantage? Much has been said about the need to view procurement departments as vehicles of value creation and not just spend management functions. Data governance is an ongoing task.
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Planergy
JULY 5, 2022
How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. ESG In Supply Chain: Creating a Sustainable Value Chain. Ethical Sustainability & Responsibility Procurement. Of all these emissions, 2/3 of them usually come from the upstream supply chain.
Positive Purchasing
MAY 3, 2024
Category Management in Purchasing , now in its 5th edition, is a comprehensive and practical guide to approaching purchasing and procurement strategically, effectively, and sustainably through category management. Published by Kogan Page on 3 May 2024Paperback, £49.99/$59.99
Jaggaer
JUNE 28, 2024
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 11 June, 2024: JAGGAER, the global leader in strategic sourcing and procurement, has held a series of roundtables in Saudi Arabia and the UAE to address the top priorities for Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs).
Procurement Software
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
These help teams to manage the attribution of marketing efforts, plan their campaigns and content, and track marketing generated leads. This in turn enables them to manage their pipelines and forecast more accurately. When it comes to martech (fusion between marketing and technology ) as many as 8,000 tools are available today.
Jaggaer
DECEMBER 13, 2024
The Essential Guide to Source to Pay, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay Whether youre new to the world of procurement and supply chain management, or a seasoned veteran; whether you work in a major manufacturing industry, a university, or a medium-sized clinical research organization, you may find procurement jargon rather confusing.
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Empowering CPO
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) are daunted with the demanding task of identifying and breaking these cartels. As Chief procurement officers (CPOs), you have to identify and break these cartels, especially in a reverse auction process. Competition laws often forbid private cartels.
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Empowering CPO
JULY 5, 2023
Introduction Welcome to our exploration of a fascinating convergence shaping the future of business operations: the intersection of technology and managed procurement services. Before we dive in, let’s first set the stage by discussing EmpoweringCPO, a leader in the field of managed procurement services.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JUNE 2, 2020
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “ Seasoned Leadership in Action ™” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer.
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Slimstock
MARCH 26, 2019
This might seem like a simple and obvious way to improve your procurement operations, but maintaining a positive supplier-buyer relationship is a vital component in ensuring good delivery, service, and quality. Our inventory management software is used by over 900 customers worldwide to free up capital and simplify the ordering process.
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Jaggaer
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Maximizing Cost Savings Through Strategic Supplier Collaboration With the growing emphasis on long-term value creation, Chief Procurement Officers are increasingly turning to supplier collaboration as a cornerstone of cost reduction. What is Cost Saving in Supply Chain Management?
Procurement Software
JANUARY 30, 2024
Procurement & Supply Chain Live This event is a gathering of global procurement and supply chain professionals, organised by media company BizClik Media. Procurement & Supply Chain Live had a healthy mix of buy-side and sell-side folks. Buy-side Non-member: 3,295.00
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Claritum
JULY 5, 2018
If you can measure it then you can manage it” This statement is so true in the procurement field. The supply chain may contain components of raw materials, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, resellers, agents, logistics, retailers and many other entities. Knowledge of part of this chain is not sufficient.
Claritum
MAY 11, 2018
Your business could struggle to achieve visibility of its global supply chain. Do you have visibility of a global supply chain? A better solution to this problem is to utilise cloud based spend management technology. Supply chain visibility is poor. %. So, how do you solve this problem?
HICX
MARCH 10, 2023
What did exist was Procurement, a function that did worked with all suppliers, albeit in one area: transactions. So, management ended the search and tasked Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) with this added job. To do it, CPOs quickly applied ‘point’ solutions, software that can deal with given use cases.
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Arkestro
JUNE 20, 2023
You may face challenges such as choosing reliable suppliers, controlling costs, and managing orders. Research-backed procurement strategies can help CFOs achieve their goals while minimizing risk exposure across global supply chains. With 36% of leaders prioritizing AI implementation in finance [1].
Procurement Software
JUNE 25, 2024
These can include negotiating contracts that prevent price increases or optimizing the supply chain to avoid rushed shipping fees. They ensure alignment with broader business objectives, positioning procurement as a key driver of both immediate financial gains and long-term strategic value.
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Zycus Cognitive Procurement
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Once upon a time, a Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) may have been able to make decisions by relying on his instinct, which is simply based on years of distilled experience. Data-driven procurement can help leaders keep up pace with the much-needed agility. 96% of the leaders believe that this a long-term trend.
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Procurement Software
JULY 11, 2023
Bettina was a Finance professional before founding Berlin-based spend management startup Hivebuy. She goes one step further and says that Procurement and Finance definitely see each other, but don’t necessarily understand one another. Rich Ham , CEO of outsourced indirect spend management company Fine Tune , puts it really well.
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HICX
DECEMBER 15, 2022
After his experience working as the Chief Procurement Officer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , David asked himself: “Why can’t we do this for public procurement? Why can’t we create a tool that connects everyone in public procurement in the U.S., The tools are easy, simple and intuitive.
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The Procuretech Podcast
JUNE 28, 2022
In particular, Wolfgang says that he enjoys expanding the mandate for procurement for wider value generation, using technology. I ask Wolfgang about common mistakes in how organisations manage their procurement teams internally. Wolfgang thinks it’ll need a structural mandate to empower procurement.
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Procurement Software
MAY 9, 2023
The Sourcing Hero The Sourcing Hero is a collaboration between outsourced group purchasing organisation Una and Art of Procurement. It’s a podcast largely focused on sourcing, but touching on all areas of procurement. This procurement podcast from B2e Media Ltd covers topics on technology, supply chain and procurement.
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Procurement Insights
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
I’ve managed to make a short story long, but I wonder if this is the start of a new ERP solution.I Like 1Reply Vera Rozanova MBA, MCIPS Chartered, MEng (Hons)CPO-Chief Procurement Officer | Procurement Director | Supply Chain | Invited Lecturer | Author | Business Trainer | Transformation 2h Jon W.
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World of Procurement podcast
JUNE 15, 2021
We covered a lot of ground in this 25-minute podcast and this podcast is going to be exceptionally beneficial to you if you are currently looking at your supply chain and wondering how can we improve visibility, how can we reach our sustainability goals using our supply chains and how do we know what is in this product?
Supply Chain Game Changer
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. As we see from Deloitte’s CPO Survey in 2018, AI is only fully deployed in 2% of procurement organizations and is far from making any real impact at scale within the digital ecosystems procurement teams are so eagerly trying to build. AI + Data = Supply Chain Risk Management.
Pipefy
DECEMBER 18, 2023
In the 2024 State of Procurement Data Report by Amazon Business, 95% of decision-makers surveyed acknowledge that there’s room for procurement optimization. In 2023, our procurement predictions focused on five key areas: The growing emphasis on burnout prevention. A pivot towards simplifying complex data and process management.
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