Una

AUGUST 17, 2022

The figure’s head represents the top 1% of strategic suppliers to your organization. This is where strategic sourcing professionals spend most of their time, communicating directly with their top suppliers through an SRM program , and using cutting-edge procurement software to analyze spend and track risk.

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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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Empowering CPO

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Introduction In the ever-evolving landscape of procurement, organizations are turning to strategic sourcing services to navigate the complexities and achieve sustainable success. This intelligence empowers decision-makers to proactively adapt their sourcing strategies, ensuring resilience and agility in the face of market fluctuations.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 2, 2025

I picked Chevron to prepare the following assessment based on the company’s interest in my recent LinkedIn post and the corresponding poll in the Purchasing & Global Supply Chain Professionals (PGSCP) group. Risk Mitigation: Real-time supplier risk scoring (e.g.,

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

Agile and Lean Supply Chain Procurement solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Procurement 52

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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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sourcing is getting smarter. To start, many organizations have already pivoted from a tactical to a strategic sourcing mindset—which can make all the difference when it comes to gaining and retaining a competitive advantage. But now, the benefits of strategic sourcing are becoming even more attainable thanks to innovation.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 1, 2025

Unlike end-to-end Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms (e.g., sourcing, supplier management, invoicing). AdaptOne for supplier onboarding, GEP for strategic sourcing) rather than purchasing a comprehensive S2P suite with unused features (e.g., ESG tracking, dynamic discounting). unused tariff tools post-2024).

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 8, 2024

Procurement differs from purchasing in a few key ways: Strategic focus : Procurement has a strategic, long-term focus on analyzing spend, reducing costs, managing supplier relationships, and mitigating risk. Purchasing is more transactional and tactical. Purchasing focuses specifically on the buying transaction.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 22, 2023

Introduction Welcome to our complete guide on the role of spend analysis in strategic sourcing. In the ever-evolving world of business, strategic sourcing has become a linchpin in corporate success. But how do we fuel the engine of strategic sourcing? The answer lies in the powerful tool of spend analysis.

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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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Una

AUGUST 30, 2022

Strategic sourcing experts are using machine learning to categorize and manage spend, AI to better predict demand, and act upon alerts such as contract expiry/renewals. How to Improve Strategic Supplier Relationship Management. How to Optimize Your Spend with a Strategic Sourcing Process. Better customer service.

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Procurement Express

DECEMBER 31, 2024

However, these strategies often only account for direct procurement or the purchases associated with the products a company sells. Indirect spending, or those purchases that fall into the everything else categoryfrom IT equipment and professional services to payrollaren’t always held to the same standard.

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Procurement Insights

JANUARY 3, 2025

20152020: Procurement Gains Strategic Recognition Emergence of Strategic Sourcing : CFOs began to recognize procurement’s role in driving long-term value through strategic sourcing, supplier relationships, and risk management. Analytics and insights from procurement data were minimal.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain 52

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Planergy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficiently by automating purchasing and invoice processing. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. What's Planergy? Let’s delve into the details.

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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. Tell me how Agentic AI would have known to ask, What time of day do orders come in? 30 (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Planergy

MARCH 24, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. What's PLANERGY?

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Procurement Leaders

JUNE 1, 2022

Five years ago, global logistics company UPS’s procurement function was far from playing a strategic role. This team has 200 members, although some of these are focused specifically on systems and data, and source-to-pay modernisation programme and transactional purchasing. Becoming a profit centre.

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Procurement Software

MAY 16, 2023

Onventis Onventis provides a Procure-to-Pay module for buyers that streamlines the procurement process from purchasing to payment. The software automates workflows and approvals, manages supplier catalogues, and provides real-time analytics for better decision-making.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It helps bring predictability to Strategic Sourcing, automates Transactional Procurement (or P2P cycle), and enables proactive Supplier Risk Management. Collaborating with the suppliers without any systems would mean wasting time searching through voicemails, printed documents, and email threads to locate the needed information.

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Procurement Software

JULY 18, 2023

When you think of the best purchasing software solutions for SMEs, or procurement tech in general, you probably think “expensive” This list of 15 procurement tools specifically targeted to smaller and growing businesses will prove it’s not so. It gives you full visibility of your spend data, all in one place.

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Una

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

A guide to IT procurement for navigating the complex IT sourcing process in a way that drives organizational efficiencies and improves your bottom line. Procurement embodies purchasing across a wide range of categories. It’s impossible to have the most current or newest application implemented at all times. Focus on data.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Make Your Website Visible and Trustworthy! Thus a website is your strategic source of revenue and brand visibility , which are important considerations before redesigning your website. Still, as time passes, you might notice that your website enjoys fewer visits. Why Think about Redesign?

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Planergy

MARCH 10, 2025

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. What's PLANERGY?

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

And yet, especially in many manufacturing industries, goods and services purchased from external suppliers can account for 60% of a company’s revenue. through strategic sourcing and targeted cost savings is a lot easier to accomplish than a sales force increasing their revenue by 10%. It’s shockingly few. Saving just 2.5%

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Procurement Software

MARCH 11, 2022

And yet, especially in many manufacturing industries, goods and services purchased from external suppliers can account for 60% of a company’s revenue. through strategic sourcing and targeted cost savings is a lot easier to accomplish than a sales force increasing their revenue by 10%. It’s shockingly few. Saving just 2.5%

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Planergy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Using financial tools can help save time and resources while improving accuracy in the budgeting process.

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Una

JULY 25, 2023

The first three KPIs we suggest every procurement team should monitor are: Defect rates Lead time Contract compliance Can you guess what the other four KPIs will be? Every free resource is dedicated to empowering procurement to save more money, time, and effort. Do you really need to complete every step for every purchase?

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

MAY 8, 2024

By examining past purchases, spend analysis helps identify high spending areas, categorize suppliers, and uncover hidden costs. This data can then be used to negotiate better deals with suppliers, consolidate purchases, and streamline procurement processes.

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Strategic Sourceror

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Regularly updating that page and making it easily locatable on your website can help you reallocate resources so you spend more time on the core needs of your business, which increases productivity and efficiency. Enterprise resource planning software gives you that visibility. Brought to you by the StrategicSourceror.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 5, 2024

Multi-functional technology enables you to train anywhere at any time, while ever-learning programming allows you to experiment and practice to achieve different outcomes. LavenirAI allows you to train anywhere, any time, so you can stay at the top of your game. These modules can be purchased separately or as one complete suite.

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World of Procurement blog

MAY 10, 2024

Some of the key capabilities and use cases for AI in procurement include: Automating repetitive and routine tasks : AI can take over low-value tasks like invoice processing, purchase order creation, expense report auditing, and other administrative workflows. This frees up procurement professionals to focus on high-value strategic activities.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Electronic Procurement (e-Procurement) Systems Electronic procurement platforms streamline the purchasing process by allowing businesses to automate operations such as order placement, invoicing, and payment processing. This technology significantly reduces manual work, minimizes errors, and speeds up transaction times.

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World of Procurement blog

APRIL 23, 2024

Electronic Procurement (e-Procurement) Systems Electronic procurement platforms streamline the purchasing process by allowing businesses to automate operations such as order placement, invoicing, and payment processing. This technology significantly reduces manual work, minimizes errors, and speeds up transaction times.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

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Bonfire

APRIL 3, 2023

For many of them, their organizations have invested a lot of time and money in ERP systems that do many things well and are there to stay. There’s often little visibility into supplier performance and risk, limited supplier collaboration and communication, and little or no ability to manage supplier contracts and agreements.

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Planergy

MAY 30, 2023

How to gain visibility and control of your indirect spend. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. An effective TEM solution will help an organization save money, time, and resources while providing visibility into spending patterns.

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Pipefy

JUNE 14, 2023

Key takeaways Spend data is the information related to a company’s spending, specifically goods and services purchased from external suppliers or vendors. Visibility into procurement categories and effective management of categories fosters benefits like greater risk management and less costly supplier redundancies. What is spend data?

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Procurement Software

MAY 14, 2024

Key Takeaways: Why we need Intake and Procurement Process Orchestration Streamlining of Procurement Process: Process orchestration simplifies the intricate procurement process by automating and integrating each step from intake to procurement, ensuring operational efficiency and strategic alignment with business objectives.

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