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Procurement Strategy’s Role in Guarding Against Supply Chain Disruptions

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Why Your Procurement Strategy is More Critical Now Than Ever Before In an era of global supply chain disruptions, a robust procurement strategy is no longer optionalits essential. Optimize costs without compromising supply chain continuity. Build strong supplier partnerships for long-term stability.

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Strategic Sourcing Success – Techniques Deployed by Leaders in S2P

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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. Assessment of the supply market (who offers what?)

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AI in procurement – The machine/human paradox

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In fact, more than 80% of CPOs, it states, indicated that digital transformation is a top priority, with a specific focus on GenAI, because “… AI tools can help procurement professionals identify trends and patterns that are otherwise impossible to tease out, thereby enabling more informed decisions from supplier selection to contract negotiation.”

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Category Management in Procurement: A Comprehensive Overview & Best Practices

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This approach can help organizations streamline their procurement processes, negotiate better deals with suppliers, and ultimately save money. Steps to Keep in Mind when Implementing a Category Management Strategy Know your supply market and product positioning to leverage spending and create opportunities.

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Let’s Get Digital: Introducing your Source-to-Pay Guide

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It starts with identifying the right suppliers for a need, sharing requirements and evaluating supplier offers, selecting the most appropriate supplier, negotiating terms and contracting with them to receive goods and/or services. S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers.

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What Does “Good” Look Like: Strategic Sourcing

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That is hardly optimal given the diversity of products, services and supply partnerships in place at most companies. It is just as valid to sign a contract extension with an incumbent supplier as it is to run a full RFP and intensive negotiation process.

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Category management is much more than strategic sourcing

Future Purchasing

Category management is the strategic end-to-end process for managing categories of related supplier spend that aligns business goals and requirements with supply market capability. Data gathering focuses on spend analysis and supply market research. Improvement opportunities.