ivalua

JULY 8, 2020

In this article we’ll review how supplier management capabilities in Source-to-Pay technology can free-up and enable a manufacturer’s direct material procurement team to do what they do best to ensure the supply chain remains resilient and agile: be creative and strategic. Supplier Data Quality & Management in Decision Making.

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Procurement Heads

OCTOBER 12, 2022

My role was to professionalise the team, work out where cost savings could be made and put a plan in place to deliver on that. The first thing I did was to strengthen the management of the procurement team. It’s therefore very easy for the team to see the value they are delivering to the company.

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ivalua

JANUARY 12, 2023

As public procurement teams face increasing pressure to improve efficiency while upholding compliance and transparency, it’s essential that they have the right strategies in place. After all, how can you streamline procurement processes without sacrificing your standards? Scalability. Data Insight Strategy.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Impact on PO Automation & Collaboration: Difficulties in real-time data exchange for PO confirmations, shipment tracking, and pricing updates. Solution Trend: Increased use of AI-driven procurement tools that enable automated order matching, supplier self-service portals, and real-time PO updates.

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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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Collaboration Supply Chain Efficiency Suppliers Real-time Visibility 52

ivalua

JUNE 10, 2021

With real-time pricing and inventory information to ensure that the items selected are available. With this seamless access, businesses can have better control and visibility into tail spend. All without leaving Ivalua.

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Collaboration Real-time Visibility Eprocurement Spend management 130

ivalua

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How Inflation Impacts Procurement Inflation affects a number of aspects within the Manufacturing supply chain, including the ability to compete in the market, financial performance, and overall strategy. This ensures contracts remain favorable and all stakeholders comply with negotiated terms. Manufacturers, take charge of your supply chain!

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Real-time Visibility Procurement Agile and Lean Supply Chain supply chain budgeting 130

ivalua

JUNE 10, 2021

With real-time pricing and inventory information to ensure that the items selected are available. With this seamless access, businesses can have better control and visibility into tail spend. All without leaving Ivalua.

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Collaboration Real-time Visibility Eprocurement Spend management 130

ivalua

JUNE 10, 2021

Real time pricing and inventory ensures items selected are available. Tail spend has always been difficult to control by procurement teams.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

The Promise of AI for Procurement Teams Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform and revolutionize procurement processes. One of the biggest challenges in procurement has been gaining visibility into exactly where money is being spent across the organization.

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TYA Suite

JANUARY 27, 2025

Managing procurement manually can be fraught with challenges such as delays, human errors, and lack of visibility. Enter procurement management software, a game-changer that can streamline and optimize the entire. preserving documentation of each procurement transaction. This is where can make a significant difference.

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TYA Suite

OCTOBER 27, 2024

With automated systems, purchase orders can be generated based on predefined criteria, such as inventory levels or specific triggers, ensuring timely and accurate procurement. Real-time tracking and reporting capabilities allow organizations to monitor the status of purchase orders, deliveries, and payments.

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 6, 2025

Its a time-saver for procurement teams or C-level execs needing a starting point. Why Its Good: Combines hard data with real-world feedback, offering a balanced view. Over-Reliance Risk What: Some companies treat the MQ as a definitive shortlist, especially in procurement, ignoring deeper due diligence.

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Sourcing supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Lifted from their latest webinar, Jean-Baptiste Anne from Amazon Business and Vishal Patel from Ivalua offer insights into tail spend management programs and the ROI these programs can generate for procurement teams. . Lack of control or visibility into what is being spent and with which suppliers. Tail Spend Challenges.

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TYA Suite

JANUARY 27, 2025

Organizations can improve procurement efficiency, cut expenses, and guarantee policy compliance by utilizing by automating repetitive tasks and reducing manual intervention. Provides real-time visibility into procurement activities, ensuring transparency and accountability.

Contract 40

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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. Performance and stability can waver.

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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.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Working within a resilient global supply chain results in complexities around basic matters like communication, time zones and languages, along with more challenging aspects like risk management, compliance and sustainability. That added benefit helps procurement meet its tactical metrics and stay aligned with overarching strategic goals.

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Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility Management supply chain software solutions 107

Spend Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

At the same time, the importance and criticality of services spend for organizations hasn’t shrunk (on the contrary …) nor the need to address typical challenges and hurdles inherent to complex service categories: inefficient processes, lack of control and low spend visibility.

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ivalua

AUGUST 16, 2022

The report explains that: “Scope 3 emissions reduction is a key challenge for companies, often due to a lack of visibility and monitoring of suppliers’ data. Companies also face engagement gaps between their suppliers and procurement teams.”. But time is of the essence for organizations. Sharing intel will be vital.

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Procurement Tactics

JULY 20, 2023

This integration enables businesses to have real-time visibility into order status, inventory levels, and supplier performance, enabling them to make informed decisions and respond quickly to changing market demands. This automation saves time and effort, making the procurement process more efficient.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

By gaining visibility into spending patterns, demand, supplier performance, and supply markets–opportunities will be uncovered. Spend under management: S2P software can help procurement teams better manage the percentage of company spend that is under contract and under management.

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Here, we’ll break down these options and look at the pros, cons, and features included in some of the more common software solutions used by procurement teams. What is Procurement Software? How Does Procurement Management Software Work? Improved cost control. Use a centralized platform.

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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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Procurement Heads

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One of the common themes I’m hearing from large organisations is that they are finding a lack of visibility looking ahead for energy spend. They want to centralise energy procurement and increase the use of on-site renewables, all while working towards their ESG and reducing reliance on the external grid.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2022

In fact, most organisations report emissions from their supply chain are several times greater than from their direct emissions. Through working with immediate and sub-tier suppliers to routinely monitor critical areas for improving sustainability, organisations can ensure they drive real improvements in environmental practices.

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Strategy Supply Chain Efficiency Real-time Visibility Sustainability 130

ivalua

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In fact, most organisations report emissions from their supply chain are several times greater than from their direct emissions. Through working with immediate and sub-tier suppliers to routinely monitor critical areas for improving sustainability, organisations can ensure they drive real improvements in environmental practices.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Sustainability Supply chain Real-time Visibility 130

Una

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Once the relevant information has been collected, you’ll be able to prioritize how best to direct your resources and time. It enables procurement teams to leverage economies of scale and improve the quality of products and services purchased. Accelerate your P2P cycle time with an automated system.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This helps reduce errors to improve data quality and response times to questions, which improves customer and supplier satisfaction. With cognitive intelligence in their toolbelts, sourcing teams can better understand and act on changes in the increasingly complex supplier market—as they happen.

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Procurement Templates

JUNE 18, 2023

ChatGPT Inflation refers to the general increase in prices of goods and services in an economy over time, resulting in a decrease in the purchasing power of money. These indices track the average price changes of a basket of goods and services over time. What is inflation?

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Spend Matters

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As the economy teeters between a so-called ‘soft landing’ and all-out recession, an emerging consensus across C-suites has taken shape: the time to cut costs is now. Once again, all eyes are on procurement. Using conversion funnels to turn skeptics into raving procurement enthusiasts “Can you give me feedback on this approach?

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time? Gaps and dysfunction in the supply chains and a lack of visibility are making it difficult to support Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Those are three hot topics in the enterprise today.

Supply Chain Efficiency 130

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Supply Chain Optimization Sustainability 130

ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time? Gaps and dysfunction in the supply chains and a lack of visibility are making it difficult to support Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Those are three hot topics in the enterprise today.

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Planergy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Indirect Procurement Indirect procurement covers support services and materials that enable institutional operations. While less visible, these procurement areas are crucial for maintaining a functional educational environment. Strategic Procurement Strategic procurement goes beyond transactional purchasing.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Procurement departments tend to be less visible to many stakeholders than sales, operations or even finance departments, but the impact they have on everything from the bottom line to product quality and service delivery shouldn’t be overlooked, which is why “procurement excellence” is a worthy pursuit.

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TYA Suite

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Each participant in the procurement process—whether they are suppliers, buyers, or logistics providers—has access to this shared ledger. This transparency is a game-changer because it enables all parties to view the same information in real time. This level of visibility is invaluable for several reasons.

Supply Chain Efficiency 40

Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement Real-time Visibility supply chain software solutions 40

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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. Implementation of new supply structure Track results and restart assessment This model has essentially stood the test of time.

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