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Supplier Diversity: From Checking the Box to Driving Business Strategy

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Part I: Building Business Cases and Driving Momentum. Supplier diversity programs are something many procurement professionals in the United States (U.S.) These programs are as familiar to procurement professionals as concepts like spend analysis or category management. 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. 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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How federal contracting looks to women-owned businesses

Federal News Network

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 sales cycle in the federal marketplace has gotten longer for a number of different reasons.

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