Procurement Templates

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Strategic Objectives Cost Savings: Achieve cost reduction targets through effective supplier negotiations and strategic sourcing. Risk Mitigation: Identify and manage procurement risks by ensuring supplier reliability, diversifying sources, and monitoring market trends. Consider which projects or contracts require a plan B.

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Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency supply chain budgeting Cost of ownership 130

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

What is Source to Pay (S2P)? Yet in the case of source to pay, it is wholly justified. The term refers to the entire journeyfrom finding suppliers and negotiating contracts to finalizing agreements and making the final payment for goods. Yet there are good reasons to do so. Or rather, it should not, in a data-driven environment.

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Sourcing e2e Supply Chain Efficiency Strategic sourcing 52

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

What Is Strategic Sourcing? A Complete Guide Strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. It is called strategic because it replaces traditional ad hoc approaches to sourcing, which were almost entirely focused on cost savings, item by item.

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Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing 52

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Complete Source to Pay cycle and Strategic Sourcing Guide An optimized Source-to-Pay (S2P) process helps businesses enhance procurement efficiency, reduce costs, and improve supplier collaboration. Strategic sourcing plays a critical role in this transformation, ensuring organizations secure the best value while mitigating risk.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Simplified: Best Practices for Maximizing Value Strategic sourcing goes beyond cost savings its about making informed decisions that drive long-term value. Now well dive into best practices in these critical areas to ensure a more effective and resilient sourcing strategy.

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Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Sourcing Strategy 52

ivalua

APRIL 25, 2023

Ivalua provides us with greater transparency and data-driven insights which will allow us to improve our sourcing decisions and contract management, and also optimize supplier management”, said Niklas Selle, Digital transformation lead in Supply Chain at Aker BP. “We Learn more at www.ivalua.com. Follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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Contract Suppliers Sourcing Supply Chain Efficiency 130

ProcurePort

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Procurement Sourcing Overview: Procurement sourcing is finding and choosing suppliers to get things an organization needs. It involves identifying, evaluating, negotiating, selecting, managing contracts, and maintaining supplier relationships. appeared first on ProcurePort Blog.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. How Has Strategic Sourcing Evolved?

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Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Sourcing supply chain software solutions 52

Spend Matters

MARCH 19, 2025

Yesterday Spend Matters released its Spring 2025 SolutionMap and TechMatchSM procurement technology rankings of 106 solution providers across 16 source-to-pay (S2P) categories. Some of these providers achieved top scores in this data-backed functionality and capability assessment, and some come out on top for their customer scores.

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Eprocurement Contract management Contract Sourcing 84

Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Utzs Procurement team had never focused on influencing budget owners in the corporate services area to strategically source their categories. The team launched many new sourcing opportunities and engaged with stakeholders in different ways resulting in other positive impacts for the company. It has been a home run.

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Influencing Procurement supply chain budgeting Strategic sourcing 103

Spend Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis we provide an overview of Onventis and its solution for source-to-pay (S2P). Source-to-pay solutions allow organizations to streamline how they manage their procurement lifecycle from start to finish. Onventis provides the above but it’s also important to note two other things about Onventis.

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Market analysis Contract management Sourcing Buyers 107

Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis provides an overview of CobbleStone Software and its sourcing, contract lifecycle management (CLM) and e-procurement solution. Through the app, users can manage contracts with capabilities such as search, request initiation, status updates, approvals, e-signature, dashboards and more.

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Procurement solutions Contract Sourcing Procurement 116

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. Who Should Prioritize an S2P Digital Transformation?

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Sourcing e2e Real-time Visibility 52

Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Overall, spend analytics plays a vital role in helping procurement teams drive strategic sourcing initiatives, enhance supplier relationships and ultimately contribute to the organization’s bottom line. Additionally, it can model and marry a variety of data alongside the spend, from contracts to risk.

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Procurement team Market analysis Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing 117

Procurement Templates

MARCH 3, 2024

I asked my assistant to help me mock up a strategic sourcing framework and she did a fairly good job but made a few mistakes. By the way, when doing sourcing preparations it doesn’t mean that you can’t work on multiple parts at once and go back and forth before the tender is issued but there is a typical order.

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Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Sourcing Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Spend Matters

MARCH 18, 2025

Having been heavily involved with this cycles SolutionMap, Spend Matters Director of Strategic Projects & Research Analyst, Nikhil Gaur, noted that alongside the Spring 2025 update … We are thrilled to release our Intake & Orchestration SolutionMap rankings for the first time. Data is refreshed every 6 months.

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Procurement Sourcing Contract Risk 92

Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, the need for agility and accuracy in contract management is more critical than ever. Contracts serve as the foundation for business relationships, outlining the terms, conditions and expectations between parties. This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Network Intelligence: Learns from market trends, supplier performance, and risk factors to optimize sourcing and supplier management. sourcing, supplier onboarding, contract approvals). You require real-time supplier intelligence, automated sourcing, and cross-organization spend management.

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Supply Chain Optimization Contract management Networking Contract 75

Spend Matters

MARCH 25, 2024

We were interested in his view on GenAI use cases, particularly in the contracting world where we see a lot of uptake by tech vendors. GenAI use cases in contracts and negotiations One use case of AI in procurement is abundantly evident in contracting and legal.

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Procurement contracts Contract Procurement Negotiation 124

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Successful deployment of source-to-contract suite increases tail supplier management efficiency and optimizes overall process automation. The project scope included Ivalua’s Source-to-Contract (S2C) capabilities and was delivered on schedule to support Ahlsell’s digital transformation Agenda.

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Suppliers Management Contract Spend management 246

Spend Matters

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Tariff management is a strategic subset of direct materials management and sourcing that involves navigating and optimizing the complex costs and regulatory implications of importing materials and goods across borders. Tariffs essentially taxes imposed on imports and exports directly impact product cost structures.

Supply Chain Optimization 110

Supply Chain Optimization Management Supply chain resilience Supply Chain Efficiency 110

RPF360

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Procurement technology includes a range of interesting solutions including contract management, data sources, RFP management systems, spend analytics and more. Explore our favorite procurement technology solutions in this blog. The post The top 23 procurement technology tools for 2023 appeared first on RFP360.

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Procurement Contract management Contract Sourcing 216

SCMDOJO

MARCH 14, 2025

It emphasizes the need for fair competition among suppliers and aims to eliminate corrupt practices that have historically plagued government contracts. Additionally, this shift is indicative of a broader trend towards responsible purchasing, aligning government contracts with societal values and aspirations.

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Procurement Bidding Competitive bidding Contract 90

Procurement Software

MARCH 2, 2025

Source-to-Pay software is the cornerstone of every procurement tech stack. As you will see, many of these Source-to-Pay software solutions straddle either SME and Mid-Market, or Mid-Market and Enterprise. The exception is if they have significant crossover, such as contract management or fraud detection tools. It’s not.

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Sourcing Procurement Contract management Price 52

Spend Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It ensures that organizations have the right materials sourced from the right suppliers at the right time and for the best cost, making tariff management a natural part of these processes. Direct materials management is essential for aligning demand, supply and product objectives throughout the product lifecycle.

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Agile and Lean Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization 110

RPF360

JANUARY 5, 2023

Learn how to identify and manage sources of vendor risk throughout the RFP and contract review process. Whether it's your first RFP or your 101st, sometimes we end up staring blankly at our team, wondering if we've covered all our bases. The post The best request for proposal (RFP) questions to ask vendors appeared first on RFP360.

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Contract Risk Sourcing Management 210

Procurement Freelancers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Effectively managing contracts for procurement processes has become an important task for companies that want… The post 10 Best Practices for Streamlining Procurement Contract Management first appeared on Procurement Blog | Procurement & Supply Chain News.

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Contract management Procurement contracts Contract Management 98

Procurement Tactics

MARCH 16, 2023

Additionally, it involves a careful analysis of supplier selection, payment terms, contract negotiation, and acquisition of goods. Strategic Sourcing Strategic sourcing assesses the patterns of business spending in order to find and choose the best suppliers that align with your business goals and objectives.

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Procurement Procurement strategies supply chain budgeting Contract management 238

Spend Matters

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

He has spent about 20 years in supply chain and procurement, was involved in the sourcing of sustainable cocoa and confection for Unilever’s Ice cream brands and procured premium packaging and chemicals for Unilever’s Beauty and Wellbeing business. Risk mitigation requires strategic thought and conscious choices on sourcing.

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Risk Strategy Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization 111

Spend Matters

MARCH 11, 2024

In this Spend Matters Vendor Analysis we provide an overview of VORTAL and its source-to-pay (S2P) solution. The post VORTAL: Vendor Analysis — e-Sourcing and e-Procurement solution overview, roadmap, customer feedback, competitors, user considerations, analyst summary appeared first on Spend Matters.

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Procurement solutions Sourcing Procurement Market analysis 117

Spend Matters

MARCH 18, 2025

Having been heavily involved with this cycles SolutionMap, Spend Matters Director of Strategic Projects & Research Analyst, Nikhil Gaur, noted that alongside the Spring 2025 update … We are thrilled to release our Intake & Orchestration SolutionMap rankings for the first time. Data is refreshed every 6 months.

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Procurement Sourcing Contract Risk 67

ivalua

MARCH 16, 2020

Optimization of the entire source-to-pay process for nearly all Körber locations worldwide. In order to establish a unified and consistent source-to-pay process throughout the entire Group, Körber was looking for a fully integrated e-procurement solution. The goal was to increase efficiency across the Group’s Business Areas.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 49

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Chief Procurement Officer 49

SCMDOJO

MARCH 14, 2025

This guide will walk you through the key steps in bid evaluation, including technical evaluation, financial assessment, and contract award best practices. Best Practices: Optimize contract terms while maintaining fairness. Award of Contract The final stage ensures smooth implementation of the awarded contract.

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Bidding Contract Contract management Price 59

CPO Rising

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Join Ardent Partners and Coupa on December 11th (2 PM ET) as they discuss CPO 2025: Evaluating the Four Pillars of Strategic Sourcing.

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Strategic sourcing Strategic sourcing Chief Procurement Officer Sourcing 52

Procurement Tactics

OCTOBER 18, 2022

You cannot get favorable contract terms for the goods and services you want to acquire if you do not have an amicable working relationship with your suppliers. . Having SRM software allows you to develop stronger supplier relationships and negotiate better contract terms with your suppliers. . Want to become a Negotiation Game Changer?

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Supplier relationship management supply chain software solutions Suppliers Management 181