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The introduction of E-Procurement.

ModusLink Corporation

The introduction of E-Procurement: Price and availability are not the only factors to be considered in a purchasing decision, especially now that a strong supply chain has become an unmissable element for every company in today’s business climate (Namulo, 2017). Furthermore, e-procurement enables price negotiation and supplier evaluation.

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Procurement Analysis: a Game Changer for Purchasing Strategically

Precoro

With the global market expansion and deepening supply chain complexity, the roles of procurement leaders have evolved from tactical to strategic. Nowadays, procurement departments not only focus on the day-to-day buying operations but also search for the most efficient ways to go about them. Types of Procurement Analytics.

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Time to Look into the Future of Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out What Exactly Is Procurement? There has been transformation in the Procurement function over the past decade. From the starting point of the traditional buy-sell, transaction-based purchasing, the practice has moved through stages of change that redefines most aspect of the business. What is Strategic Sourcing?

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The Value that Procurement Centres of Excellence Bring to Organisations

HICX Solutions

Spend Matters defines a Procurement Centre of Excellence as “an internal entity that performs internally facing knowledge-based services on a one-to-many basis to procurement (and to broader stakeholders) in order to drive scale, repeatability, and best practice.” Establishing a CoE central management team.

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Your Guide to RFP Software

EC Sourcing Group

If you think about the overall supply chain and how procurement is just one link in the chain, the RFP process is but one link in the procurement chain, but a very important one. . All of this type of software should speed up and automate your sourcing process. Knowledge base and template library. Task management.

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Exiger Acquires Widely Adopted Proprietary Parts Intelligence Company XSB

Exiger Perspectives

Carrie Wibben PRESIDENT, EXIGER XSB’s product suite is used by thousands of engineers, item managers and catalogers to prevent supply chain interruptions and mitigate risks from diminishing supply sources, obsolescence and nonconforming parts.

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7 Basic Types of Supply Chain Risks

Precoro

It is a comprehensive task that requires hands-on knowledge of the company’s internal processes, clear understanding of its weaknesses and strengths, as well as extensive insights into the market trends. Supply chain risk management is one of the top priorities of procurement professionals. Diversify the sources of financing.