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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

ivalua

One way of doing this is by leveraging Source-to-Pay (S2P) solutions, which can provide procurement with the tools needed to manage their supplier relationships and identify opportunities for cost savings. S2P: Where to Start Ivalua provides a comprehensive set of integrated solutions that span the entire Source-to-Pay lifecycle.

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Centralized Purchasing System – Key Benefits and Effective Strategies

Precoro

On top of that, we’ll break down how to approach selecting the right centralized purchasing system for your business needs. Signs your company needs a centralized purchasing system Key benefits of centralized procurement How to efficiently implement centralized procurement Frequently Asked Questions What is centralized purchasing?

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The Ecosystem of Large Systems

Demand Driven Technologies

When you’re looking for IT systems to manage your supply chain, chances are you’ll be directed toward large, complex, and expensive systems. If a system – an ERP, for example – is complex, it will require. Read more Source

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Agile Strategic Sourcing for a Resilient Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Procurement, activities such as strategic sourcing, are one of the main processes in the supply chains that can generate a positive impact on companies by giving them a competitive advantage in the market. Strategic sourcing can help supply chain leaders identify potential risk factors and develop procurement mitigation plans.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

They integrate reasoning with LLM inputs so that employees can provide directions in natural language and the agents will pull data and interact directly through internal systems and external stakeholders. To learn how exactly autonomous AI agents will transform source-to-contract and procure-to-pay, read this whitepaper now.

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Succeeding at Strategic Sourcing With Arena and Part Analytics

Arena Solutions

Succeeding at Strategic Sourcing With Arena and Part Analytics Learn more about the integration between Arena and Part Analytics here. Full transcript below: Heatherly Bucher Welcome to our session on Succeeding at Strategic Sourcing. Engineering and sourcing professionals build the platform for engineering and sourcing.

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How to Optimize Your Procurement Sourcing Systems

EC Sourcing Group

How to Optimize Your Procurement Sourcing Systems. Finding the right tools and measures to optimize your procurement sourcing systems is a must. While optimization does rely heavily on procurement sourcing software , there are other ways to optimize the procurement management process. Expand your networks.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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How One Manufacturer Used GEP SOFTWARE To Save $45M in Direct Material Sourcing

Multiple legacy systems prevent procurement from standardizing processes and tracking what they’re spending with each supplier. For global manufacturers, managing direct and indirect material spend can get very complicated very quickly.

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Transform Your Supply Chain into a Predictive AI-Driven Knowledge System

By analyzing real-time data from disparate sources, these advanced systems offer actionable insights to anticipate potential issues, improve decision-making, and enhance operational efficiency. Fragmented processes and unstructured data pose significant challenges for supply chains.