Procurement Insights

MARCH 27, 2025

AdaptOne could provide significant value to Byrne Dairy , a food and beverage company, by optimizing and digitizing its procurement operations particularly in supplier management , compliance tracking , and procurement workflow visibility. Mock RFP: Procurement Automation & Supplier Management Platform Issued by: Byrne Dairy, Inc.

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 19, 2022

Vendor Management Best Practices — The Ultimate Guide of 2022. Vendor management best practices are utilized to boost business growth and productivity. For this article, we will discuss what the best practices in vendor management are. We will also share the benefits of vendor management that will captivate you to use it. .

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 10, 2021

One of my first professional jobs was in Warehouse Space Planning and Warehouse Management. Given the astronomical increases in lumber pricing, the core element of the wooden pallet, we felt it was time to look at the Pallet Supply Chain and the impacts that lumber pricing is having on this industry. Lumber Pricing Impacts.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Everything You Need to Know End-to-end process and end-to-end solution may be one of the most overworked phrases in business and IT. That said, many organizations, including large enterprises, may not think in terms of source to pay as an end-to-end process, if they think about it at all. the public sector).

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 2, 2025

Chevrons procurement and supply chain challenges in 2025oil price volatility, geopolitical disruptions, ESG compliance, talent shortages, technology adoption, and logistics bottlenecksrequire tailored solutions from ProcureTech providers. Chevron Fit: Strong for cost management and tech adoption, with $5M-$15M savings potential.

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TYA Suite

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Companies require effective tools to manage their sales activities in today's competitive business world. To ensure that bids are accurate, timely, and manageable, quotation management software has become an essential tool for firms looking to optimize their quoting process. How Does Quotation Management Software Work?

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Spend Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

Categories: Contract Management , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Solution Providers , Source-to-Contract Tags: PRO This Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis provides an overview of Spendflo and its solution for SaaS procurement and management.

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Procurement Tactics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

We will tell you how it works and how you can manage it. Additionally, we will discuss the three processes of financial supply chain management. What is Financial Supply Chain Management? This approach involves the procure-to-pay cycle, order-to-cash cycle, and working capital management. . Procure-to-pay cycle.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

While many manufacturers rely on ERP systems for procurement, these platforms are designed for broad business management rather than the intricate demands of sourcing, supplier collaboration, and cost control in a manufacturing environment. A closer look at these functions reveals how ERP streamlines operations and supports long-term growth.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Even if logistics teams are more responsible for operational fulfillment, procurement still has a massive impact on it in terms of the initial design of the supply network (Design For Supply) and in the contracting of conditions (prices, Incoterm, MOQ, etc.).

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 28, 2023

By the end of this article, you will have an idea of the importance of procurement tracking in your business and which procurement tracking software you would want to utilize. Procurement Tracking is the process of monitoring and managing procurement activities. What is Procurement Tracking?

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 1, 2025

Unlike end-to-end Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms (e.g., sourcing, supplier management, invoicing). Cost Alignment Eliminates Waste Mechanism: Pay-for-what-you-use pricing (e.g., $50K Comparison to End-to-End S2P S2P Non-Usage: 30-40% unused (e.g., $15K-$400K Subscription models scale with usage, not scope.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration vs. Supplier Relationship Management What good is having the best suppliers if you can’t communicate well enough to leverage their products and skills? The primary goals of SRM are to foster hand-in-glove supplier relationships, manage risk, and optimize the value chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Supply chain management and contract lifecycle management are key ingredients to business success. The journey from idea to end product to shipment and delivery is exciting, yes, but rather complicated — fueled with many moving parts. How well a company manages its supply chain processes can directly impact its bottom line.

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 10, 2023

One area of significant potential that is often overlooked is tail spend management. Historically, a lack of dedicated tools and/or a concentrated focus of investments on strategic spend categories have deterred procurement teams from developing effective solutions to manage the tail.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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. Your focus here is to get security of service at a good price. Finally, in the bottom left we have basic suppliers, or your tail spend.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nowadays, Procurement practitioners primarily talk about emerging topics like the reduction of scope 3 emissions, supplier-enabled innovation and supply risk management. Many large organizations implement a Procure to Pay platform with the aim to deliver efficiency, visibility, simplicity, and compliance.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 6, 2015

In this article, Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama will share 7 trends that procurement and supply chain management professionals should watch. With “Internet of everything” concept expanding, there are more opportunities to connect supply chains and increase the visibility from order initiation to order delivery.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We believe these companies deserve greater visibility, especially in a market which is increasingly consolidating and diluting buyer choices. To potential buyers — COVALYZE can save category managers and buyers significant time and money, as it takes away many of the manual processes historically required of these roles.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Because organizations with strategic sourcing mindsets look beyond price and cost savings-centered supplier selection initiatives. Successful strategic sourcing often results in process optimization, cost management, customer satisfaction, risk management , increased sustainability and other benefits.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Visibility. Visibility into other key inventory (e.g., Visibility into other key inventory (e.g., Facts about the energy and utilities industry Transformer prices have doubled, while the average lead time for delivery has at least tripled from what it was two years earlier, reaching 52 weeks in some cases.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

Here are three reasons why logistics management software like TMS, YMS Freight Audit and others is essential to the survival of business during events like global pandemic. So how does logistics management software prepare shippers to accommodate any business environment – even those that materialize in the wake of unexpected events?

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency. What is Source-to-Pay?

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Spend Matters

JUNE 21, 2024

Intake and orchestration (I&O) solutions can transform initial customer requests and subsequent interactions for just about any business into streamlined, end-to-end, secure and transparent engagements. So if it’s Finance, I talk about budget, both budget visibility and spend visibility.

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ivalua

JUNE 27, 2022

Once an organization has the complete Strategic Payment cycle in place CFOs can use the end-to-end visibility to control bottom-line growth with targeted programs. . The data from the C2FO working capital marketplace cycles back into the Ivalua platform and adds more vendor management and risk intelligence. What’s more?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Coronavirus pandemic created a dramatic and highly visible disruption in that paradigm. procurement techniques) as opposed to educating the next generation of leaders equipped with the broadest possible set of management and leadership skills to run the entire end to end operations of a massive global company.

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Spend Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2023

AI can help create greater efficiency and value across all source-to-pay processes, including spend analysis, opportunity identification, sourcing and contract management, category management, supply relationship management and risk management.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Analytics Mintec specializes in price intelligence, and with its proprietary technology, it can provide customers with robust forecasts to make better decisions. ESG Anvil Analytical offers solid spend or carbon management services that helps organizations make informed decisions by analyzing their spend- and carbon-related data.

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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Supply chain resiliency is also a critical objective for HS2, as the industry contends with challenges including commodities, hyperinflation of material prices, deficits in skilled labour and changing consumption habits. To address supply chain transparency, a new initiative, “SCM+”, was developed in the second quarter of 2021.

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Spend Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Innovation and collaboration with customers were major themes, with future developments like ‘co-pilots’ being explored to enhance compliance, supplier management, data insights and more. The upcoming Data Access Offering in 2024, providing quick AP data access via APIs for efficient retrieval and management of invoice information.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Commodity and raw material shortages of every kind have delayed the manufacturing and distribution of goods across most industries, driving up prices in the process. One of the fundamental problems which has contributed to the current breakdowns is the sheer lack of visibility. Once admired just-in-time systems have faltered badly.

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Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

SMEs are unlikely to see an ROI on procurement software unless it’s a lower-priced software with relatively basic functionality. Mid-market businesses, on the other hand, could invest in this software and easily see a quick return if they have the right change management and procurement talent in place.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 9, 2025

Strategic Fit: Amex aimed to build an end-to-end B2B platform (Anna Marrs, Amex), enhancing its supplier-side offerings beyond card issuance. Its spend management was fragmented, often requiring tools like Concur. Supplier Focus: Ramps supplier management is buyer-centric (e.g., PO syncing, bill pay). manufacturing).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Check out Why don’t you have a TMS (Transportation Management System) Solution yet? Yet it is managed by one or two people, with no support, and no visibility from upper management. Aside from the cost impact the service implications of a poor Freight management system are enormous.

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Procurement Software

JUNE 20, 2023

The contract management software market is hot right now. Being able to manage your contracts in one place, author them, approve them and sign them is a massive productivity boost. Not only that, it also offers a single source of truth, having all of your contract documents and contract management data in one place.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To mitigate the issues of the end-to-end supply chain and cope with customer expectations, organizations are constantly focusing on reducing the delivery lead time. One of the essential steps to reduce the lead time is to manage inventories in every form like raw material, semi-finished products, and final goods.

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