American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Strategic procurement is more than just buying goods and services—it’s about creating value, optimizing resources, and aligning purchasing decisions with organizational goals. In this blog, we’ll explore key best practices and show how leveraging group/cooperative purchasing can help you master the art of strategic sourcing.

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Bonfire

APRIL 3, 2023

Not to mention, ERPs can’t connect you with the vendor communities and networks that sometimes come with a dedicated procurement solution, which means that fewer qualified vendors see and bid on your agency’s solicitations in the first place.

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ivalua

JULY 21, 2021

“Partnering with Consus Global and our successful deployment of Ivalua will accelerate our progress in supply chain optimization at REV Group by applying a powerful toolset of data, supplier management, and competitive bidding capabilities to our team,” says Rob Vislosky, Chief Supply Officer of REV Group. “We

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Bonfire

MARCH 24, 2022

Whether through our Open Community Projects , Inside Public Procurement podcast , Strategic Sourcing blog , or virtual events and user meet-ups, we’re dedicated to building a community that promotes and celebrates excellence in public procurement. Driving impact with eProcurement.

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The Procurement School

JUNE 25, 2023

demand aggregation As one strategy for meeting this obligation, both sectors look for opportunities for volume buying or ‘demand aggregation’ wherever possible and often approach strategic sourcing from a category management perspective. Each party to the CFTA also has specific exceptions to the general provisions.

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ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

Recently I attended a conference for Strategic Sourcing in the medical device manufacturing sector. Software that is built for indirect spend will not function in critical areas such as breaking down bids and collaborating with suppliers at the bill of material level.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

Mike Smith, a former director of strategic sourcing at DHS and now executive vice president at GovConRx, said with the successes of the DHS and other pilots, he hoped the FAR Council would take up this project and support CPARs reforms. The first set of awards come about eight months since vendors submitted bids.

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