Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Supply Chain Visibility – An Overcomplicated Challenge! A recent Deloitte survey estimated only 15% of CPO’s have visibility beyond their tier one suppliers. I found this striking that there is so little multi-tier Supply Chain visibility. Visibility comes at a cost – one we’ve spoken about before: trust.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Collaboration across Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and beyond requires visibility and communication regarding capacity, cost, risk, order quantities, inventory levels, quality , timelines, logistics, and more. Collaboration brings visibility and agility for gaining market share.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Control Tower – Is Yours Real or Smoke and Mirrors? In my last article, I spoke about the hesitancy standing in the way of multi-tier visibility. But once you have that visibility the journey has only just begun. Then and Now: The notion of visibility and “control”. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Download Free Copy Ultimate Guide to Procurement in Education: Tips for Schools & Academies Category Spend Management Written by Keith Murphy 16 min read Tags Education Procurement Last edited February 24, 2025 Download PDF IN THIS ARTICLE What is Procurement in Education? What is Procurement in Education?

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Today I want to talk about the challenges faced by today’s automotive suppliers, and why a network model for their supply chain can help. Executing these strategies requires manufacturers to fully leverage the potential of today’s innovative network-based supply chain systems and processes. Supplier shipment information accuracy.

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ivalua

JULY 8, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts global supply chains, procurement organizations around the world are scrambling to react. Supplier Data is at the core of every procurement activity, and it is critical for those dealing with direct materials in manufacturing. Managing a Complex Network of Direct Material Suppliers.

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TYA Suite

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In 2024, blockchain technology is expected to transform various industries, and procurement is no exception. From reducing fraud to improving and automating contract management, blockchain is shaping the future of procurement in ways previously unimaginable.

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Una

AUGUST 17, 2022

This comprehensive guide will go over tail spend in procurement and provide resources for how to implement an effective tail spend management strategy. This shape represents your entire procurement spend. It's decentralized by buyers in the business (not procurement people). Put simply, procurement teams can’t do everything.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The ProcureTech landscape is rich with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers offering innovative solutions to enhance procurement processes. SAP Ariba : A leading procurement software company, SAP Ariba offers a comprehensive suite of solutions for supplier management, strategic sourcing, procurement, and financial supply chain management.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

These four steps constitute the downstream procure-to-pay part of the process. Optimizing source-to-paythrough digital transformation streamlines every stage of your procurement strategy, improving visibility, efficiency, and collaboration. These begin with enhanced visibility. Getting buy in is essential.

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ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

As part of Ivalua’s journey to bridge the gap between Finance and Procurement, Ivalua has partnered with TransferMate to reduce the financial friction within cross-border trade. By removing the friction in global supply chains, for the first time, the payment and the sourcing event are seamlessly linked.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In times of pressure and crisis , highly responsive and trustworthy suppliers make agility possible. Following widely-known standards keeps your vendor options open so you’re not locked into sourcing from a small pool of specialty suppliers that can negatively impact time to market.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 17, 2025

I received an email a few moments ago with the headline – NEWS: Beroe Acquires nnamu to Turbocharge Procurement Negotiations with Game Theory and AI. Anyone who has followed the Procurement Insights blog for any length of time knows I love to ask questions and am voracious about gaining new insights.

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Una

MAY 11, 2023

Building a Procurement Function From Scratch With the right approach, building a procurement function from scratch can create streamlined and efficient processes that deliver real value to your organization. Defining your goals and objectives will help you create a roadmap for building your procurement function.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The result is a vehicle that meets market demands for sustainability and performance while reducing time to market and production costs. In a global business environment, supplier collaboration is better understood as a dynamic network involving partnerships within an extended ecosystem.

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Procurement Heads

JANUARY 30, 2023

For the latest of Procurement Heads ‘ Futureheads series, Harsh spoke to Dan Goodson about his procurement career journey. I am an IT Buyer and procure software and hardware. You’ve previously worked on the supply chain side of retail, how much of a shift was it to procuring IT for a leading infrastructure company?

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2022

Digital supply chains use one integrated network for all relevant supply chain partners, including procurement, suppliers, service providers, and even customers. The financial benefits include greater profitability, reduced costs, accelerated time-to-market, and faster time-to-delivery. .

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The Procuretech Podcast

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In this episode of The Procurement Software Podcast, host James welcomes Praveen Kalamegham, CTO of Workrise, to discuss the importance of industry-specific solutions in procurement technology, particularly in the oil and gas sector. Timestamps: [00:02:21] Assessing procurement technology needs. [00:06:31] Every one helps!

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With a real-time connected network of 12 million drivers, OneRail matches the right vehicle for the right delivery so brands lower expenses and increase capacity to rapidly scale their businesses. Without that visibility, how are you able to mitigate risk, plan, make sure that you’re delivering to your customer promises?”

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Procurement Insights

MAY 27, 2024

Who is my missing provider – One Network Enterprises. Businesses must take an outside-in network view and together serve the end consumer.” ” By the time Greg Brady and Ranjit Notani began their journey, I had already sold my company and was moving on to my next challenge. Why This Provider?

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 28, 2022

Cargo Chief enables 3PLs and freight brokers to expand their carrier network, gain visibility into real-time pricing, and streamline their processes. And we serve everything up on our project and procurement software… for an easier way to book freight.”. We solve some of the industry’s biggest issues….

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

EPISODE 137 Using Visibility to Combat Supply Chain Abstraction with Frank Kenney By Kelly Barner | October 18, 2023 In the race to build global empires of data and digital systems, today’s businesses must not risk forgetting what all of those zeroes and ones mean.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 29, 2024

Sign Up for SCMDOJO Pro Membership Importance of Effective Supply Chain Management Supply chain management is not just about moving products from point A to point B – it’s a strategic approach that encompasses the entire network of processes involved in delivering goods and services to customers.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

A recent study by Forrester found that the single greatest factor in increasing a supplier’s willingness to collaborate with and share innovations with a customer was timeliness of and visibility into payments. It is not uncommon for organizations to spend time on supplier enablement without achieving a huge amount.

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ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

Invoice to Pay sits at the end of a Procurement process that starts with a need, moves through selecting and contracting with a supplier and ends with delivery of goods or services. . At each step of this Procurement process, data is gathered, suppliers are onboarded, and deliveries are accepted. Invoice to Pay from Ivalua.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 11, 2024

At Spend Matters, it’s as important for us to get to know the requirements and opinions of the procurement community of practitioners as it is for us to understand the world of tech solutions and their providers. So it was good to see a nice mix of both presenting at Procurement Strategies and Innovation (PSI) last week.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For procurement professionals, keeping pace with new technology and understanding the changes that come with it – while adapting their systems and workers – is crucial if they want to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable global economy. That alone increases efficiency,” he continued.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 29, 2021

Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! Intelligent Supply Chain technologies article and permission to publish here provided by Dan Weinberger , UN Supply Chain Expert and CEO of Morpheus Network. Manufacturers with a global supply chain network took the brunt of suspended operations during the pandemic.

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Spend Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Compliance and risk management is a growing and interesting use case of GenAI for procurement, finance and, of course, legal operations. And those risk factors can change at any time; it’s a very dynamic landscape. To do proper risk management, you need to have a lot of information, and you need it in real time.”

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Now, sourcing and procurement professionals are reaping the rewards of such automation: streamlining workflows, boosting the bottom line and finding efficiencies. This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

The company has implemented sophisticated barcode scanning and point-of-sale systems to collect real-time data from its stores. By employing these technologies, Walmart gains valuable insights into customer buying behavior, sales trends, and inventory levels.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company achieves this by using an advanced Al paired with real-world, in-the-moment perspectives from a proprietary network of partners that deliver insights down to the bill of material level. Even now, supply chains are far from being “back to normal.”

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 14, 2024

Paul Denneman , a Master APICS® Instructor with over 20 years of experience, and Maryna Trepova , a renowned procurement expert, are just a few of the instructors leading the way. Actionable Skills for Real-World Impact: Go beyond theory and gain the practical skills you need to make a tangible difference. No problem!

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 24, 2022

Their flexible, customized supply chain solutions, based on best practices and expertise, work seamlessly with internal client operations to ensure time-definite delivery wherever and whenever necessary. We are a multi enterprise supply chain business network.”. Visibility for the sake of visibility is just another pile of data.

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Spend Matters

JUNE 20, 2023

This content does not express the views or opinions of Spend Matters In our previous installment on Spend Matters, we discussed the rapid evolution of Supply Chain Risk Management happening within procurement organizations. But what is procurement’s role in managing something as technologically complex as cyber risk across the supply chain?

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Customers are able to consolidate real-time information spanning supplier performance evaluations, transactional data, spend data, contractual information and external risk information from major third-party data providers. The post Ivalua Launches Enhanced Third-Party Risk Management Capabilities appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

There are numerous data centers across the world that rely on networks of servers to store and manage data and information remotely. With cloud solutions, data is replicated and automatically backed up through a network of connected devices across different geographical locations. Greater Information Visibility.

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