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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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Procurement teams are now expected to manage a lot of moving parts — from supplier relations to spend, risk, compliance, contractual obligations, contingency plans and more — and a lack of visibility inhibits their ability to do any of that effectively. Work to achieve 100% supply chain visibility. Why is visibility so important?

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What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

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Procurement can and should be a significant value generator for the larger organization. There are, in fact different phases of procurement value creation that tie into the Source-to-Pay process: . Creating Value occurs when sourcing and procurement uses relevant sourcing processes and tools to engage and select the best fit supplier.

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

In addition, there are several comprehensive guides to green purchasing available online, including from the Nation Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO). Pursuing a sustainability plan When a procurement team is committed to green purchasing, there are a variety of strategies that can be considered.

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Free vs. Paid Tender Portals: Which is Right for Your Business?

Tracker Intelligence

Public sector procurement information and contracts are available through both free and paid tender search engines. Invariably, procurement teams are unable to keep ahead of the curve and to do so, they have to manually search, lack customised notifications, and only have minimal historical data.

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The user experience ensures that procurement policy is followed

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Until then, users were either experts, engineers or IT specialists. Expectations will be different for our procurement optimisation solutions and will depend on whether the user is an experienced buyer, an occasional requestor or a Procurement Director. History of the user experience: ( read this article in French ).

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Commemorating 10 years of Bonfire

Bonfire

Before joining the team, I was a consulting engineer for a small firm and part of my job was submitting RFX responses to the public sector. Fast-forward 10 years and Bonfire’s eProcurement platform has streamlined the process for 451,506 global users (and counting), including buyers, vendors, and evaluators. What’s next?

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Scottish Procurement Vlog – March 2025

Scottish Government Procurement

We have enhanced the Procurement Journey and PCS pages to help supported businesses, and we are working to publish a new ministerial endorsed public sectors buyer’s guide document for supported businesses. We launched the first Civil Engineering Dynamic Purchasing System for projects of up to 5 million.