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Category Management in Procurement: A Comprehensive Overview & Best Practices

SCMDOJO

Category Management Software What is Category Management in Procurement? Steps to Keep in Mind when Implementing a Category Management Strategy Know your supply market and product positioning to leverage spending and create opportunities. Use appropriate technology to manage the categories.

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

ivalua

By gaining visibility into spending patterns, demand, supplier performance, and supply markets–opportunities will be uncovered. Spend under management: S2P software can help procurement teams better manage the percentage of company spend that is under contract and under management.

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Webinar Recap: Procurement 2022, Big Trends and Predictions

ivalua

Enterprises will continue to undergo the financial burden of revenue disruptions, consumer , and uncontrolled supply chain variables. . Disruptions in global supply chains, labor market shortages, strong consumer demand. The Criticality of the Supply Chain (and Suppliers). What can we expect in 2022?

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Purchasing problems: 10 common challenges every purchasing manager faces

Procurify

Companies that adapt to supply chain volatility can swim against the tide. . With the current state of supply chains, purchasing managers need transparent market and supplier intelligence. A lack of supply market and supplier visibility impacts company spending, negotiations, supplier partnerships, and more.

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Supply Chain Maturity Model for Capability Assessment

Supply Chain Opz

Supply Chain Maturity Model for Capability Assessment. The concept of maturity model was firstly introduced by Watts Humphrey of Carnegie Mellon University in 1987 with the goal to improve the performance of software development process. Supply Chain Maturity Model. Case Studies. 1) Process Maturity Model.

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SAP Spend Connect – See the bigger picture

Spend Matters

Beroe for supply market intelligence) that’s woven into the solutions to enhance better decision making. Finally, we would still like to see a common knowledge graph ‘backplane’ to model n-tier supply chains that ties the various networks (and applications) together better.

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Procurement Challenges Condensed

Claritum

To my mind, your challenges depend on where you are in transformational change within your organisation, the scope of your function within Procurement and the nature of the organisation’s supply chain. For example, is your focus on strategic long-term supply relationships to support your manufactured product? Resourcing.