ivalua

JULY 27, 2015

attempt to make a point about the relative value of strategic sourcing, I failed to realize that thought leadership is apparently the exclusive domain of pundits. I’m going with Supplier Value Management. It means turning your supplier relationships into a competitive advantage that enables you to win in the market.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Norway Public Sector Solution Details Jarrod McAdoo Director of Product Marketing Jarrod McAdoo brings over 26 years of procurement experience to Ivalua as a product expert for the Analytics & Insights, Supplier Management, Spend Analysis, and Environmental Impact Center Solutions.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore how sustainable procurement practices can help organizations reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve their sustainability goals. However, implementing category strategies for successful sourcing and supplier management can be challenging without the right tools.

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ivalua

AUGUST 18, 2015

The term “supplier collaboration” can mean many things to many people depending on your functional perspective. If you work in product design or engineering, supplier collaboration is focused on integrating strategic suppliers into your product innovation efforts. Innovating.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2016

But one critical area remains in need of significant attention … the need for better supplier collaboration AND internal teamwork. Early collaboration among engineering, sourcing, and suppliers brings better ideas to the table in terms of product design, features, and costs. Suppliers are always looking to hide sources of cost.

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Bonfire

APRIL 3, 2023

Limited supplier reach: ERP systems don’t go far enough when it comes to reaching and managing suppliers. There’s often little visibility into supplier performance and risk, limited supplier collaboration and communication, and little or no ability to manage supplier contracts and agreements.

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ivalua

JULY 7, 2020

Be it stronger support or stricter policies around supplier management for sustainability and diversity or more efforts to improve the communities involved in and around a business. Overall, Procurement organisations can influence entire ecosystems of suppliers to develop with this balance in mind. Building Resilience.

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ivalua

APRIL 17, 2023

At Ivalua, we understand the importance of having a single source of truth for your data. Having supplier information scattered across multiple systems can lead to data quality issues and even duplicate records for the same supplier. Taxpayers and legislators demand transparency, and suppliers appreciate it.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

For our discrete manufacturing market, that means reducing product costs, driving margin expansion and extracting greater value from supplier relationships via superior strategic sourcing and supplier management. In good times or bad, you should never stop investing in improving your business performance.

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ivalua

MARCH 15, 2016

He said he had seen it all in supply base management and had experienced the feeling of victory leaving plenty of blood on the floor in negotiating with suppliers in his day. He cautioned us that this was a slippery slope and “You will all need suppliers to save your butt one day, never forget that”. It is smart business.

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ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

Recently I attended a conference for Strategic Sourcing in the medical device manufacturing sector. getting involved early on in the New Product Introduction ( NPI) cycle to ensure suppliers risk is being properly evaluated in production capacity and quality.

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

As I write this blog, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage populations and economies around the world. And to maximize the impact of these and other objectives, Procurement needs to be managing all spend and all suppliers. It requires different skills and knowledge among the staff, supplier relationships, processes and technology.

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ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

But now with strategic sourcing and category management, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. Add sourcing workflow to the mix, and introduce machine learning that can link directly to the supplier and track savings, then you can start to see where the science comes in.

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