SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

3) Supplier Evaluation Purchase Price Variance (PPV) assists in evaluating supplier relationships and managing supplier selection. It helps determine the accuracy of supplier pricing. Checkout SCMDOJO’s Supplier Excellence Manual, your go-to supplier management guide!

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Procurement Software

MARCH 16, 2025

While full-scale digital transformation certainly takes time, organisations can see rapid improvements in efficiency, collaboration, and data accuracy right from the outset. This makes it easier to track spending patterns, supplier performance, ESG data, and contract compliance.

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Arkestro

AUGUST 1, 2022

For the longest time, the procurement scale has tipped in favor of the buyer. Constrained supply chains and the associated shortages have resulted in mounting pressures from the government and investors for organizations to diversify their supplier bases. Suppliers are calling the shots. Supplier Frustrations. trillion.

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Empowering CPO

JUNE 27, 2023

This transformative practice enables organizations to delve deep into their purchasing data, gaining invaluable insights that can revolutionize their supplier relationship management (SRM) strategies. It acts as the catalyst that drives procurement excellence and organizational success.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction In today’s interconnected world of business, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) stands as a pillar of success for organizations across the globe. It’s the concerted effort of strategically planning and managing all interactions with suppliers that supply any goods and/or services to an organization.

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ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

A review of the key elements in supplier management for manufacturers and how Source-to-Pay procurement technology can support the journey towards supply chain resilience and agility in times of crisis. There are many supply chain management lessons to learn from the Covid-19 crisis.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Real-World Focus: SCMDOJO courses often incorporate real-world case studies, expert interviews, and practical exercises, ensuring that you gain relevant and applicable knowledge. The interactive approach caters to learners who want to develop practical skills and gain real-world insights.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They may not consider potential issues of integrations, supplier onboarding, supply chain data management, change management and system optimization, all of which add to complexity and costs. Sustainable master data management and governance: As much as 55% of projects fail due to data management issues.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Power of Source-to-Pay Digital Transformation To put it briefly, source-to-pay refers to the entire process that starts with finding, negotiating with, and contracting the suppliers of materials, goods and services, and culminates in the final payment for those items. These begin with enhanced visibility.

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The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Managing people-to-people relationships, whether with stakeholders or suppliers, through email chains and Excel sheets isn't particularly effective. Stakeholder and Supplier Collaboration Without Emails and Excel. So, what's in it for the stakeholder or the supplier to use a digital tool?

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ivalua

JUNE 11, 2019

At some point, there was a need for this, a solicitation process to select a supplier, a competitive bidding process, a contract negotiation, transactions and so on. For the longest time, leading Procurement technology providers in my experience just ignored this space.

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ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. ​ It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency. What is Source-to-Pay?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 1, 2024

For example, combining generative AI with technologies such as blockchain helps to keep data about the material-to-product transformation unchangeable across different entities, providing clear visibility into products’ origin and carbon footprint.

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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.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Because organizations with strategic sourcing mindsets look beyond price and cost savings-centered supplier selection initiatives. They consider factors—like supplier performance or sustainability —that support long-term partnerships, advance business needs and increase purchasing power.

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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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Una

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent paper from Deloitte has helpfully categorized digital procurement into three areas: automated P2P (Procure-to-Pay), proactive SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), and predictive S2C (Source to Contract). How to Improve Strategic Supplier Relationship Management. Digital procurement game-changers.

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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. Third-party risk management through a specialized vendor moves beyond the onboarding and intake process.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 3, 2025

The two next-highest ranked trends are also closely related: Deep Real-time Data and Insights Visibility (50%) and Broadening the Scope of Procurement Responsibility. We can add sustainability, ESG and supplier diversity to the growing list of broadened responsibilities.

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NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

MAY 8, 2023

Supply chain visibility is essential for successful procurement, as it enables businesses to proactively manage risks and optimize their supply chain. Whether it’s due to natural disasters, supplier bankruptcy, or transportation delays, disruptions can cause significant challenges for businesses.

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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. Consolidate your supplier lists. There are several benefits associated with supplier consolidation. Reducing suppliers also helps mitigate risk throughout the supply chain.

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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.

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Finale Inventory

AUGUST 15, 2024

Supply chain disruptions: Problems with suppliers, production delays, or transport issues can cause shortages. Manual errors: Mistakes in tracking inventory, such as miscounting or misplacing items, can create discrepancies. Small businesses often work with multiple suppliers and partners.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Future of Supplier Collaboration is Now: AI is Optimizing Supplier Relationships Artificial Intelligence plays a powerful role in effective supplier collaboration. It provides valuable insights, improves supplier management, and facilitates stronger and more profitable supplier relationships.

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Spend Matters

MARCH 11, 2024

For our readers who couldn’t/didn’t attend, here are our own reflections based on the time we had ( if we missed you, apologies, but do reach out to us here to get your procurement tech solution in front of our analysts ). Supplier Master Files have changed, he said. So cleansing of SMFs is vital, even though it takes time.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

9 Steps to Improving Supplier Collaboration for Competitive Advantage The strategic value of suppliers has been growing, and so has the need to rely on their performance and partnership. Supplier collaboration serves as the foundation for supply continuity, agility, risk management, and resilience when disruptions occur.

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SCMDOJO

JUNE 17, 2024

Port congestion at the main global crossroads in recent times has revealed the susceptibility of supply networks to logistical constraints. Supplier Reliability and Risk: Dependence on a limited pool of suppliers raises the risk of issues with them, such as erratic cash flow, changing laws, or natural disasters.

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Arkestro

JULY 4, 2022

Supplier diversity is increasingly being recognized as a critical objective for procurement. From a societal viewpoint, organizations that achieve supplier diversity help address inequality and social injustice. While supplier diversity has many indisputable benefits, it is also easier said than done.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. Sourcing and procurement professionals operating with a strategic sourcing mindset assess a supplier’s quality, reputation and service.

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HICX

AUGUST 4, 2022

The era of Supplier Experience is here. Accelerated by recent global events and propelled by today’s need to fundamentally change the way in which organizations interact with their suppliers, there is a realization in the industry that the enterprise-supplier relationship cannot be treated as a zero-sum game.

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HICX

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Table of Contents What is supplier risk management? What are the benefits of supplier risk management? What is supplier risk management? As organizations scale and increase in size, so too does the organization’s number of suppliers, which means there are more risks to be managed.

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Claritum

JULY 31, 2018

This article focuses on effective supplier management. The five pillars of effective supplier management covered in this article are: Supplier Information Management. Supplier Lifecycle Management. Supplier Performance Management. Supplier Relationship Management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 23, 2021

But too often the expected deliverables from Supply Chain professionals are established without a real understanding of the totality and breadth of actual tasks that must be performed underneath those high level expectations. With an iceberg it is said that only 10% of it is visible as the rest is under the water.

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Arkestro

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Limited Supplier Network. Relying on a limited number of suppliers can lead to back-orders and other delays. Constrained supply chains and the associated shortages have resulted in mounting pressures for organizations to diversify their supplier bases. Supply Chain Visibility. Managing Supplier Relationships.

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The Procuretech Podcast

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We kick off series 2 of The Procuretech Podcast with with a mini-series examining three different Supplier Relationship Management platforms. Why supplier performance data can't just be measured in hard KPIs. Was the company generally happy with the supplier's performance? Was quality performance acceptable?

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Planergy

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. Catalog management in procurement is the strategic process of managing and maintaining a product catalog within an organization.

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Empowering CPO

MAY 5, 2023

It is responsible for managing the entire process of acquiring goods and services, from identifying suppliers to ensuring timely deliveries. In essence, procurement serves as the backbone of an organization’s supply chain, contributing to cost savings, risk management, and supplier relationship management.

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