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Essential Procurement Skills for the Leaders of Tomorrow

Skill Dynamics

Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Relationship Management Strategic sourcing skills are crucial for procurement professionals to effectively identify and then leverage opportunities within the supply base to create value. Strategic sourcing can also help reduce the overall risk in a given supply chain.

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What is Source to Pay? Steps, Benefits, and Best Practices

Jaggaer

Strategic sourcing becomes part of the process and ensures that the best vendors are selected, and that favorable deals are negotiated with them. This sequence of tasks is sometimes referred to as source to contract, and they form the upstream elements in S2P. Strategic sourcing: The word strategic is added for good reason.

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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance

Jaggaer

The primary goals of SRM are to foster hand-in-glove supplier relationships, manage risk, and optimize the value chain. Supplier Collaboration for Agility Your world is characterized by dynamic market conditions, shifting customer demands, new technologies, rapidly changing regulations, and frequent supply chain disruptions.

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We’re BACK! 5 Reasons to attend 2022 Ivalua NOW DC: Stronger Together

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Director Strategic Sourcing Digital & Functional Transformation, . This year, we’ve invited a wide array of industry thought leaders to join 6 expert panels covering Data Integrity, Sourcing Optimization, Sustainable Procurement, Finance Procurement, Public Procurement, and Federal Procurement. .

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Ivalua Cited as a ‘Leader’ in Source-to-Contract Technology by Independent Research Firm

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in “ The Forrester Wave™: Source-to-Contract Suites, Q4 2019.” Ivalua is now the only vendor positioned as a Leader in four separate reports — the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites, The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement Platforms, Q4 2019 and this report.

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Ivalua Cited as a ‘Leader’ in Source-to-Contract Technology by Independent Research Firm

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Ivalua is now the only vendor positioned as a Leader in four separate reports — the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites, The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement Platforms, Q4 2019 and this report.

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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.