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Strategic Procurement — Everything You Should Know

Procurement Tactics

When strategic procurement is done correctly, it can help an organization to optimize its profit margin, reduce risks, and streamline the process of purchasing goods and services needed to achieve business goals. Category Management Category management sorts your spending into areas with the same supplier markets.

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Elevating Procurement Excellence: Key Strategies to Optimize Procurement Processes

Skill Dynamics

Numerous platforms and needs, on top of a multi-tiered supply chain, have made origin tracing even more challenging. Your business needs a broader vision to address sustainability, deliver on risk management and resilience challenges, nurture buyer and supplier relationships, as well as meet procurement excellence.

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Oil and Gas Supply Chain Procurement Innovation at Scale with Arkestro

Arkestro

Resources / Blog / Oil and Gas Supply Chain Procurement Innovation at Scale with Arkestro Oil and Gas Supply Chain Procurement Innovation at Scale with Arkestro For the oil and gas industry, the last few years have been anything but easy. Within these touch points are many other varied points.

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Getting Acquainted with the F&B Supply Chain – Finale Inventory | Ecommerce

Finale Inventory

Are you interested in learning about the world of the F&B supply chain? In this article, we will walk you through the basics, key components, role of inventory management, challenges, and technological innovations in the F&B supply chain.

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Business process management (BPM) examples

IBM Supply Chain Blog

Business Process Management (BPM) is a systematic approach to managing and streamlining business processes. Conversely, it has a larger scope than task management, which deals with individual tasks, and project management, which handles one-time initiatives. BPM is often confused with other seemingly similar initiatives.

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Procurement In My Lifetime: A Timeline Of Understanding (1959 to 2024)

Procurement Insights

Here are the top 3 concerns likely to dominate the agenda for CPOs in 2025: Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management Sustainability and ESG Compliance Supply Chain Visibility Conclusion: CPOs in 2025 will need to navigate a complex, fast-changing landscape shaped by technology, sustainability, and global uncertainty.

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Manage Procurement Spend Like It’s Your Own Business!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Commodity Management. Category Management. And all of this is managed by Procurement personnel. But do they manage this spend like it is their own business or do they manage it like it is just a functional job with transactional activities to be performed?