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Expanding the influence and impact of Procurement

Spend Matters

This meant that implementing one of the full end-to-end spend management suites was not feasible from a cost and change management perspective. The most significant impact of implementing a spend analytics solution was providing the visibility and details behind the dollars spent on various Indirect spend categories.

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Mastering Strategic Sourcing: Efficiency and Cost Savings in Procurement

Jaggaer

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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Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

ivalua

Many large organizations implement a Procure to Pay platform with the aim to deliver efficiency, visibility, simplicity, and compliance. Procurement as end-to-end process owner . With so many stakeholders engaged in the P2P process, one function must take the lead in preventing functional sub-optimization.

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How to build a successful procurement strategy

IBM Supply Chain Blog

It can nurture collaborative partnerships with suppliers and integrate ethical and environmental (green purchasing) considerations into the sourcing strategy. This enables an effective and adaptive approach to sourcing that creates value and minimizes risk. Some may not agree with the proposed changes.

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Debunking observability myths – Part 2: Why observability is important for everyone, not just SREs

IBM Supply Chain Blog

An observability solution offers valuable insights to multiple stakeholders engaged in software development and operations, with benefits that extend to developers, operations teams, product managers and even business stakeholders. Our customers have been able to achieve tangible results using real-time observability.