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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance

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Supplier Collaboration: Fundamental to Elevating Manufacturing Performance Supplier relationships are at the heart of manufacturing performance. That’s why supplier collaboration—that consistent, trusted, and responsive interaction between supplier and manufacturer—is pivotal to manufacturing success.

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Strategic Sourcing Success – Techniques Deployed by Leaders in S2P

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Strategic Sourcing Success: Best Practices and Key Strategies Of course, there are many definition s of source-to-pay but put simply, strategic sourcing is a data-driven approach to securing the best value for your organization from its strategic suppliers. Assessment of the supply market (who offers what?)

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Let’s Get Digital: Introducing your Source-to-Pay Guide

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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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The Science and the Art of Procurement

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The huge growth in the use of technology has been the most visible part of that developing picture. I first saw this term used a few years ago by Philip Ideson, as a title for his website and excellent series of podcasts, and it feels like this may be an idea whose time has come.

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Why Is Supplier Experience Now Such a Key Priority?

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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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Category management will fail if procurement and business stakeholders do not collaborate to agree a pipeline of projects

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The real value is spending some quality time with your stakeholders to discuss potential categories to focus on and identify resources required to make the cross-functional working more effective. Spend : Profile historic and future spend profiles for all major categories, segmenting by business units and major suppliers as a minimum.

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Managed Procurement Services: A Strategic Approach to Cost Reduction

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This approach allows businesses to leverage the expertise of procurement specialists to streamline operations, optimize supplier relationships, and most importantly, reduce costs. This involves everything from identifying requirements and sourcing suppliers to negotiating contracts, placing orders, and managing supplier relationships.