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Supplier Consolidation: What It Is, Benefits, and Risks

Planergy

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Supplier Consolidation: What It Is, Benefits, and Risks. Best Practices & Tips Strategic Sourcing Supplier Relationship Management. But what exactly is supplier consolidation?

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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

World of Procurement blog

Developing a Strategic Procurement Plan A detailed 3-5 year strategic plan turns the strategy into an actionable roadmap. The plan defines activities like category analysis, supplier consolidation, technology implementation, process re-engineering, skill building etc. Dual sourcing and supply chain digitization can help.

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Spend Matters Future 5 2024 – Introducing True ValueHub

Spend Matters

“Unlike many ProcureTech companies, True ValueHub was founded and is run by procurement and supply chain industry practitioners. The solution is self-learning and calibrates to the customer’s supply chain needs.” Doing this manually takes a significant amount of effort and time, but still yields inadequate results.

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Leverage the Power of Spend Analysis

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

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. While valuable, past trends can’t always predict the future.

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Procurement Interview Questions & Answers

Supply Chain Game Changer

Procurement, or Purchasing, is an area of Supply Chain that involves and requires very specific skills and expertise. Further analyzing that spend can help you determine opportunities for implementing cost savings practices like supplier consolidation, strategic sourcing , and standardization. Email Address.

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The AI Advantage: Unlocking New Value for Procurement Teams

World of Procurement blog

Conducting market research : AI can scan the web to collect pricing information, identify potential suppliers, assess supplier reputations, and keep up-to-date with market and industry trends. This supports strategic sourcing efforts. This data-driven approach takes much of the guesswork out of supplier selection.

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Tail Spend Analysis: What Is It, How To Perform It, and the Benefits

Planergy

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Spend analytics involves classifying your spending data, identifying relevant trends, and implementing solutions that improve your purchasing power. Spend analytics can be performed by hand or with the help of software.