Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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.

Influencing 103

Influencing Procurement supply chain budgeting Strategic sourcing 103

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Strategies for Building Resilient Supply Chains Recurring disturbances in recent years have highlighted the need for manufacturers and contract manufacturers to build resilience into their supply chains. Performance and stability can waver.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Suppliers Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

It offers the full range of functions you need from an end-to-end platform: Strategic Sourcing Contract Management Procurement Accounts Payable automation Payments and Supplie Management Actionable Data Insights. They are not an end-to-end procurement software suite.

Procurement 96

Procurement Purchase orders Real-time Visibility Purchasing 96

SupplyShift

APRIL 14, 2020

The abrupt shift in shopping patterns and demand for certain consumer goods and medical supplies compounded the problem and revealed the risk of maintaining small inventories through just-in-time sourcing. Of those, 44 percent did not yet have a plan for dealing with the disruption.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain e2e Supply 52

Jaggaer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Or alternatively, as senior managers we only see the end results of procurement as figures on a spreadsheet or a financial statement, with little awareness of how they are arrived at and how they can be improved. To understand whats really going on we need, first, to step back and get a holistic view of the end-to-end process.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing Contract Procurement Chief Procurement Officer 52

Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Supply Chain is no longer a back-office, transactional function. A survey of millennial Supply Chain employees conducted in 2017 found that 39% were women, which is lower than overall female representation in the work force, but up from the 24% rate reported in a similar 2014 survey. What’s more?

Supply chain 54

Supply chain Leadership Supply Supply chain management 54

IBM Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Procure-to-pay (P2P) software links procurement practices to accounts payable and can streamline steps such as supply management, purchase orders and invoicing. Additional procurement software includes spend analytics tools and supplier relationship management (SRM) software.

Procurement strategies 65

Procurement strategies Strategy Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain 65