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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Efficient warehouse management.

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It’s Time for Procurement to own Scope 3 Emissions

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Scope 3 emissions are the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for an organization–extracted from a wide range of activities–including purchased goods and services, waste disposal, capital goods, and business travel. This will ensure sourcing and purchasing decisions take emissions into account.

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It’s Time for Procurement to own Scope 3 Emissions

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Scope 3 emissions are the largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for an organization–extracted from a wide range of activities–including purchased goods and services, waste disposal, capital goods, and business travel. This will ensure sourcing and purchasing decisions take emissions into account.

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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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Procurement technology can also help businesses improve supplier relationships and enhance communication between buyers and suppliers. Insurance: You can also purchase insurance to protect against disruptions in the supply chain. Create speed and transparency. This will help offset the costs associated with disruptions.

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The Science and the Art of Procurement

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Outside the technology field, we have also seen “science” come to the fore in terms of codifying processes such as Category Management. There may be different models in use, but there is a pretty well-accepted logical methodology behind how organisations approach their management of major spend areas.

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What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

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An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis.

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Ivalua Now – So How Was The First Morning For You ?

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He also talked about the recent release and the new features there, such as a new user interface across the platform, a new category management module (which I want to investigate more) and an integrated “digital assistant” at platform level.