Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Solutions: Strategic Sourcing: Move beyond transactional purchasing and embrace strategic sourcing. Maintaining revenue and profitability depends on a resilient and adaptable supply chain. The Challenge: How do you build a supply chain that can withstand unexpected shocks and ensure the smooth flow of materials?

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Efficient warehouse management.

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Spend Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Categories: Procurement Systems & Architecture , Supply Chain Visibility Tags: PRO In this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, we give an overview of Circularise, a blockchain-based traceability solution that helps companies trace products and materials to verify their origins, certificates, CO2 footprints and other material data.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Below, we list 8 steps that manufacturers can take to build a more resilient supply chain in a post-covid world. Work to achieve 100% supply chain visibility. Why is visibility so important? Flexibility: Another way to reduce risk is to build flexibility into your supply contracts.

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Jaggaer

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Opportunities for Procurement Technology As we look toward 2025, European businesses are reshaping their supply chains to navigate an increasingly complex global landscape. A recent report by Maersk and Reuters Events highlights that 68% of companies are making supply chain visibility and monitoring solutions a top priority.

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Claritum

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Problems can arise when bespoke requirements are purchased directly by employees throughout the organisation or just “passed through” by overworked buyers who have no time to deal with the suppliers. This can result in products and services being purchased across the organisation with no consistency of supply, sustainability or quality.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

FourKites, a real-time supply chain visibility platform, introduced multimodal purchase order tracking for all freight in the FourKites system.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Collaborative efforts between buyers and suppliers, along with better tools, education, and incentives, can help overcome these barriers and foster a more sustainable supply chain.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

Supply chain visibility has been the missing link since the shockwaves of 2020 rippled throughout the world and consumers felt the impacts of broad-based supply chain issues. But what does supply chain visibility mean? The bottom line is your bottom line.

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Procurement Tactics

JUNE 5, 2023

Complexity Global supply chains are complex, involving numerous participants, resulting in increased costs and delays. This intricacy stems from factors such as geographical distance, cultural differences, legal compliance, supply chain visibility challenges, and the impact of political and economic instability.

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Frank is the Director of Market Strategy at Cleo, where he is focused on helping companies get ahead and stay ahead despite persistent supply chain complexity. The basics of group purchasing Group purchasing refers to the practice of businesses or organizations coming together to purchase goods or services at a discounted price.

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Claritum

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Problems can arise when bespoke requirements are purchased directly by employees throughout the organisation or just “passed through” by overworked buyers who have no time to deal with the suppliers. This can result in products and services being purchased across the organisation with no consistency of supply, sustainability or quality.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Enhancing collaboration pays off, both by increasing transparency with suppliers and improving the bottom line through multi-tier supply chain visibility. Work collaboratively with suppliers in real time to improve parts and material quality while responding quickly based on demand forecasts.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

OCTOBER 3, 2022

SEKO provides complete supply chain solutions, specializing in transportation, logistics, forwarding and warehousing. Powered by their innovative and customizable IT solutions, SEKO provide a seamless flow of information, giving their ever-growing customer base true supply chain visibility.

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ivalua

JANUARY 24, 2022

Dramatic supply and demand shifts during the pandemic prioritized the need for data accuracy to solve short and long term supply chain challenges. Data builds the bridge between your own internal supply chain visibility and the information you provide to your stakeholders.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2022

Another strategic solution to boost your supply chain is to embrace technology. The right technology can make your supply chain visible, accessible, and streamlined. The more you automate your supply chain processes, the less chance for human errors and the better off you’ll be. Embrace Technology.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

Doing so streamlines purchasing power and optimizes inventory management. Once hospital systems have real-time inventory visibility, order orchestration and supplier collaboration, they can enable greater customer satisfaction with options like online purchase with store pickup.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Increase supply chain visibility. If working knowledge of your supply chain isn’t thorough and up to date, you may struggle to action quick decisions. In Europe, around 51% of potential customers report a reluctance or refusal to purchase goods in packaging that knowingly damages the environment.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

AUGUST 12, 2024

Today Evan Smith, Co-Founder and CEO at Altana, joins me to talk all about Altana and what they do; their mission to fix globalization and improve global commerce for everyone; the role of AI in making data accessible and actionable; and how Altana are delivering more than twice the supply chain visibility of any other provider.

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Strategic Sourceror

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Some of the key advantages that visibility solutions bring include: Less risk According to McKinsey, organizations that have implemented digital dashboards for their supply chain visibility needs were twice as likely to have avoided the supply chain issues that plagued the industry in the early months of 2022.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 3, 2021

For far too long Supply Chain has not got the respect that it deserves. There are many reasons for this lack of due consideration: Many Supply Chain operations, like manufacturing, purchasing, warehousing, and logistics are hands on, blue collar type jobs.

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EazyStock

JUNE 16, 2022

Having systems and processes in place to reduce the possibility and subsequent impact of supply chain issues is extremely important. Advancing technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, make connectivity and supply chain visibility easier. What is artificial intelligence?

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The Good Spending

JUNE 15, 2022

It presents industrial buying not as a single event but as an organizational decision-making process where multiple individuals decide on a purchase. New Tasks The first-time buyer seeks a wide variety of information to explore alternative purchasing solutions to their organizational task.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Direct purchase requests from employees are possible with varying levels of auto-approval. Automation of procurement processes, along with a seamless integration of the other systems such as ERP, WMS, and TMS, will ensure enhanced supply chain visibility. Cost Saving. Challenges of Procurement Automation.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Recommended Reading Navigating Supply Chain Attacks: A Cyber Security Guide for Procurement Preparing Your Supply Chain for the Unexpected The Importance of Supply Chain Visibility for Procurement Expert Procurement Operations Management The post How to Keep Your Supply Chain Running When Disruptions Hit appeared first on Next Level Purchasing Association (..)

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The Supply Chain is directly responsible for the payment terms for Accounts Payable, Inventory (this does vary between companies), and even the negotiated terms for Capital purchases. Supply Chain has a central and pivotal role, if not the controlling responsibility, for Cash Cycle management.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

JANUARY 17, 2023

Supply Chain Agility and Visibility. Limited visibility can increase the total cost to serve and the total cost of ownership, reduce supply chain performance and increase the loss of value in your supply chain. Purchasing Training Tidbits. Recommended Reading. SPSM vs. CPO Suite.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 30, 2023

During her tenure as a supply chain professional, Barra has been credited with implementing a new global purchasing and supply chain system, which helped GM reduce costs and improve its supply chain operations.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

The CPFR program has been instrumental in enhancing overall supply chain visibility and efficiency, allowing Walmart to respond promptly to fluctuations in demand and supply, reducing stockouts, and optimizing inventory levels.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It’s vital that supplies are predictable, so you can get the products and services you need. To address supplier challenges, you must ensure your preferred providers can meet your changing needs and that you have a diverse supply base. Supply Chain Visibility. Supply chain visibility is another critical issue.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2021

A PayPal study shows that 43% of shoppers will abandon their carts if hit with high shipping costs, while 84% won’t purchase from a brand again after a single negative delivery experience. Of course, a supply chain upgrade is a major investment that may require you to obtain a working capital loan from reliable lenders.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Once you have the feedback, quickly assess your business processes to prioritize your actions to create a customer-centric Supply Chain. Bolstering your supply chain’s “connective tissue” enables visibility and foresight into the flow of information, physical goods, and associated financial transactions.

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The Procuretech Podcast

JUNE 11, 2024

We explore Focal Point offers intake, project management and procurement performance; Lavenir AI offers ongoing, virtual negotiation training practice; Raindrop is a complete spend management suite built on modern technology; FRDM focuses on supply chain risk management; LUPR leverages Salesforce data for SRM.

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Procurement Software

MARCH 7, 2023

Then, with the growing popularity of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP and Oracle during the late 1990s and early 2000s, converting requisitions into purchase orders (POs) was done electronically. The P2P process deals predominantly with administrative purchasing tasks. What is the difference P2P and S2P?

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

MARCH 12, 2023

As the only parcel TMS provider enabling end-to-end supply chain visibility, from shipping analytics and automation to customer delivery experience management, organizations are optimizing their shipping operations with Enveyo’s cloud-based suite of solutions. “I’m

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Una

APRIL 23, 2024

Why Do We Need Supply Chain Visibility? By harnessing the capabilities of machine learning algorithms, supply professionals can access unprecedented efficiencies, make smarter decisions, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Una

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They can guide end-users through catalog searches, item selection, and purchase requisition submissions, improving the overall experience for employees. 24/7 Support Chatbots are available round the clock to assist users with their purchasing requests and inquiries. Learn more about why UX is important in procurement.

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