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Supplier Diversity: From Checking the Box to Driving Business Strategy

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These programs are as familiar to procurement professionals as concepts like spend analysis or category management. businesses proudly maintain robust supplier diversity programs. businesses proudly maintain robust supplier diversity programs. have accepted as a key element of procurement.

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Ivalua Now and the Art – or is it the Science – of Procurement?

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But now with strategic sourcing and category management, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. It’s a style of working that produced innovative thinking – but by its nature, could be hit and miss; where “miss” could have a significant negative impact to an organisation’s balance sheet.

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How federal contracting looks to women-owned businesses

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One of the things that we’ve uncovered is that 75% of the women owned businesses surveyed reported that corporate and government contracting is really critical to their business strategy. And so it’s not just a statistic. The way that the federal government buys is changing over time.

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