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Ultimate Guide to Procurement in Education: Tips for Schools & Academies

Planergy

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Procurement in education is far more than simple purchasing. These purchases directly impact student learning and institutional performance. Strategic Procurement Strategic procurement goes beyond transactional purchasing.

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How Predictive Procurement Orchestration Helps Unlock Savings in 60 Days

Arkestro

More and more, procurement professionals everywhere are seeing the value of using a platform like Arkestro for sourcing and spot purchase events, making their procurement processes more competitive, and driving cost savings. You can unsubscribe at any time. The results were immediate.

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How effective Tail Spend Management can drive cost savings

Procurement Software

Instead of looking at direct materials and purchased parts, the hidden opportunity is often found in effective tail spend management. The typical characteristics of tail spend are poor spend data and a relatively low value per purchase order. 2) Uncontrolled purchases. This usually depends on what’s being purchased.

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How effective Tail Spend Management can drive cost savings

Procurement Software

Instead of looking at direct materials and purchased parts, the hidden opportunity is often found in effective tail spend management. The typical characteristics of tail spend are poor spend data and a relatively low value per purchase order. 2) Uncontrolled purchases. This usually depends on what’s being purchased.

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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Procurement differs from purchasing in a few key ways: Strategic focus : Procurement has a strategic, long-term focus on analyzing spend, reducing costs, managing supplier relationships, and mitigating risk. Purchasing is more transactional and tactical. Purchasing focuses specifically on the buying transaction.

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Dig Deep for Effective Decisions on Indirect Spend

Claritum

To make effective decisions about indirect spend, it is important to understand the scope and breadth of the category – visibility. In this case there is a need to capture the data in real time in the first instance. In this case there is a need to capture the data in real time in the first instance.

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Dig Deep for Effective Decisions on Indirect Spend

Claritum

To make effective decisions, It is important within any spend category to understand the scope and breadth of the category – visibility. In this case there is a need to capture the data in real time in the first instance. In this case there is a need to capture the data in real time in the first instance.