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Get Ready for Success! 4 Critical Workstreams for Successful Procurement Implementation

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Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Get Ready for Success! Project Manager (PM): The project manager oversees the implementation process, coordinating activities, managing timelines, and ensuring that project objectives are met.

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Speed, Collaboration and Innovation – Key Words for the New Procurement Decade

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Working collaboratively is often complex, involving internal stakeholders beyond the procurement function too, which highlights another critical success factor – the need for effective programme and project management. That’s not something many procurement professionals traditionally consider. .

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Managing Tail Spend to Avoid “Porcelain Dalmatians”

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When effectively managing tail spend, companies report saving 10 percent or more, which can be a significant addition to the organization’s bottom line. Five steps to setting up a tail spend management process. Have your procurement team collaborate on what categories can be added to tail spend management.

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The ultimate guide to Virtual CFO tools

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Virtual CFO tools range from cloud-based accounting platforms to cash flow forecasting, budgeting, and spend management software. Thats why vCFOs need a spend management solution to streamline purchasing, prevent maverick spending, and maintain real-time budget visibility.

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Ivalua Launches Innovations to Improve Supply Chain Resilience and Employee Productivity

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Redwood City, CA – Feb 24, 2021 – Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , today announced the general availability of its new platform release 168. The release includes a broad set of innovations to help organizations better manage their spend and suppliers. Sourcing Innovations: . About Ivalua.

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5 Steps Towards Modernizing Supplier Management

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To truly gain control of enterprise-wide supplier data, leaders must implement vendor master data management (MDM). Such solutions, especially if embedded in spend management suites, can help unify data across the enterprise and fix duplicates and other issues at the source.

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Collaboration, Procurement with Purpose and the Entente Cordiale…

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Successful collaboration requires both softer, behavioural skills, such as empathy, listening, and judgment, but also technical capabilities around planning, project management, and data analysis.