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Mastering Strategic Sourcing: Efficiency and Cost Savings in Procurement

Jaggaer

The process creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. 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 Success – Techniques Deployed by Leaders in S2P

Jaggaer

It is a process that creates efficiencies across all spend categories, minimizes supply chain risks through improved supplier selection and awards, while giving visibility into pricing and forecasting. We normally now refer to the first step as spend management and we use spend analytics technology to aggregate and explore spend data.

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The Contract Management Playbook: Strategies and Secrets for Total Control

World of Procurement blog

Introduction to Contract Management Contract management is the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract creation, execution, and analysis to maximize operational and financial performance at an organization. Effective contract management provides numerous benefits for companies across industries.

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Advanced endpoint protection vs. risk-based application patching vs. laptop management: Similarities and differences

IBM Supply Chain Blog

In this day and age, it’s critical that organizations know about and manage all apps installed on their endpoints. Using multiple platforms to discover apps and manage laptops and mobile devices negatively impacts the IT and security team’s efficiency and productivity in continuous application patching.

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10 CLM Platforms to Take Your Procurement Game to the Next Level

World of Procurement blog

Contract lifecycle management (CLM) software has become an invaluable tool for procurement teams looking to optimize their contracting processes. As procurement organizations deal with an increasing volume and complexity of contracts, they need solutions to effectively manage the entire contract lifecycle from request through closeout.

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The Essential Guide to Source to Pay, Source to Contract, and Procure to Pay

Jaggaer

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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Supply Chain Predictions!

Supply Chain Game Changer

These are the innovative technologies that I predict companies must use to undergo this transformation within their supply chains: Cloud-based technology deployments lower cost of ownership due to not having a large capital expenditure on hardware and upgrades. With analytics, businesses can more effectively predict and fill demand.