American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Witt says he often points government buyers to the following quote as they begin any initiative: “If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” – Dr. W. Edwards Deming , a leading proponent of statistical quality control in organizations.

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Total Cost of Ownership Cost of Ownership Buyers Buying Process 110

ivalua

MAY 15, 2019

Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repositor. The first immediate application of language understanding is clause repository management.

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Data Management Contract E-procurement 60

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It breaks the bond between Buyer and Supplier, resulting in fragile supply chains and lots of mistrust. The Purchase Order has been touted as the only way to manage ‘maverick’ spend (stopping off budget expenditure), but it’s also a way to automate invoice processing. to manage Invoicing, Collections and VAT/Sales Tax.

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E-procurement Supplier Buyers Supply Chain 94

GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With an extensive background in data management, Nate brings a unique skillset to the helm and is well-equipped to lead GovSpend into a new chapter of data delivery and AI technology. How do you plan to leverage your expertise in data management to drive the strategic direction of the company?

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Data Quality Purchasing Transparency 105

ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. At the same time, organizations have never been more exposed to risk from their supply chains, from supply continuity, quality, or ESG violations. Business leaders must adopt a new, holistic approach to supplier management.

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The Procurement School

MAY 12, 2023

Author: Liz Busch Planning for a procurement should consider the entire procurement lifecycle, including contract management and close-out. Contractors need to understand the quality measures that the owner will apply to the services and deliverables. Have a workable quality measurement process.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

There are specific dashboards that analyze prices on the central e-catalog , medical procurement , buyer evaluations , Energy Services Company (ESCO) procurement, or internal auditing practices. More than 16,000 buyers and suppliers have been trained to use the BI Prozorro module to improve the efficiency of their routine procurement tasks.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Buyers 67

ivalua

APRIL 6, 2021

A Guide to Contract Management Tools and Processes including a guide to the key steps of the Contract Lifecycle Management Process and to the benefits that using Contract Management software can bring to your Procurement processes. An Overview of Contract Lifecycle Management. Why is it Important to Manage Contracts?

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ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

Procurement, distributed buyers, the executive team, sales and marketing all have their own reason for looking up suppliers. Additionally, having a way to improve the quality of supplier master data is important to consider. The post Altering the When, How and Why of Supplier Information Management appeared first on Ivalua.

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Supplier Management Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing 53

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society. More recently, it canceled a RD$1.3

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Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 78

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We only have three regional offices and hundreds of buyers. We don’t have the manpower to monitor all our procurement in real-time,” says PPDA’s manager for performance monitoring Doreen Kyazze. Audits are post-mortems after things have gone bad. We were asking ourselves how we can have real-time interventions.

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Public Procurement Procurement Contract Collaboration 135

How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This regulatory technique simply seeks to allow public buyers to ensure compliance with the EU AI Act by cascading the relevant obligations and requirements down to tech providers (largely on a back to back basis). Whichever way this goes, this puts the public buyer in a position of rule-taker.

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Buyers E-procurement Transparency Procurement 88

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

At this stage of the procurement cycle (stage 10), our work should be focusing on the management of the contract to ensure that the supplier is delivering as per our expectations. The second KPI gives the supplier the exact details of what is required and as such allows the organisation to fairly manage the supplier’s performance.

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Import Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 59

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, there are more than 5 million Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States that are able to provide valuable services to add enhanced quality and efficiency to the U.S. of the federal government’s overall annual contracting and buying goes to Hispanic-owned businesses.

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Buyers Procurement Contract Government Contracts 128

Open Contracting Partnership

MAY 23, 2024

It was impossible to analyze the decisions of Ukraine’s procurement review body, the Antimonopoly Committee, in a comprehensive way to understand when the outcome favored the buyer and when it favored the vendor. percentage points more than the average success rate for appeals in Prozorro (72%), excluding Clarity App buyers.

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Procurement Tender Buyers Public Procurement 67

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Under pressure to quickly identify new sources of supply, due diligence has–at times been reduced, thereby increasing the likelihood of quality issues, unknowingly supporting forced labor, or exposing organizations to fraud. Rather than disrupt supply, let’s disrupt supplier management. But a radical rethink is needed to succeed.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Management Supplier 52

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So why not short videos to pitch ideas to Defense Department program managers and contracting officers? So it’s less about production quality and it’s more about addressing the questions and convincing us that I’m going to use a cyber term that you’re not selling vaporware. They work just about everywhere.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

City and county governments are often key buyers of landscape equipment and supplies, says Keith McGinty , director of bids and government accounts at SiteOne Landscape Supply , a firm that sells soil maintenance products, irrigation, lighting, nursery products, tools, equipment, safety items and hardscapes in addition to landscape supplies.

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Government Government Bidding Purchasing 78

ivalua

MARCH 18, 2021

Massy, France 18 March , 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, and CKS BeNeLux today announced that Punch Powertrain has successfully deployed Ivalua’s platform to support the digital transformation of the strategic sourcing process.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Those FEBs are now on the verge of a transformation, as they look to expand their reach with more consistent funding under the Office of Personnel Management. She said given GSA's role as a major federal buyer of technology, the report raises even more questions about the agency's oversight processes. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.)

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Purchasing Networking Electronics Collaboration 119

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

It is also helping to bridge the supply chain management gap that has traditionally existed between healthcare providers and other industries such as manufacturing. Often this variation is valid and leads to better quality of care but often it is not. Share on Twitter. Big Opportunity Ahead. Watch a BSW webinar here.

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Supply Chain Distribution Strategic Sourcing Quality 87

Inter-American Development Bank

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). Source: Authors’s elaboration.

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Public Procurement Procurement Strategic Planning Balance 52

Extract Systems

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Under a NAR rule, a home seller is required to pay commissions to the agent representing the buyer, which sellers claimed forced them to pay excessive fees to the agents. Under this latest ruling sellers would no longer be required to pay their buyers’ agents, and agents would be free to set their own commission rates.

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Buyers Ethics Quality Collaboration 52

ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

A review of the key elements in supplier management for manufacturers and how Source-to-Pay procurement technology can support the journey towards supply chain resilience and agility in times of crisis. There are many supply chain management lessons to learn from the Covid-19 crisis. Risk & Performance Management.

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Supply Chain Procurement Procurement Team Supplier 69

ivalua

JULY 13, 2022

Buyers are expected to scrutinize every aspect of the purchasing process to identify ways to reduce their carbon footprint, source sustainable materials, and promote diversity. The amount of data associated with these initiatives can be exponential, a burden too heavy to manage manually. ESG Objectives for Buyers.

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Sustainability Buyers Supplier E-procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

I am reading a leaflet for a contract management portal when I overhear a conversation between a buyer and a supplier. “I says a buyer. AI might be fast, but buyers cannot rely on it to be a subject matter expert. If a bid is incorrectly evaluated, the buyer can hardly hold the AI response generator accountable.

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Tendersinfo

JUNE 4, 2021

Bid managers are the unsung heroes of the sales team and the organization. As government bids follow a definite procurement process it is important for Bid Managers to meet all the deadlines and eligibility criteria of Government Procurement. Go ahead only when you are sure that you have a competitive edge over others.

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Bidding Tender Buyers E-procurement 52

How to Crack a Nut

APRIL 4, 2023

The one finding that should definitely not go unnoticed is that, according to DRCF, ‘ Buyers can lack the technical expertise to effectively scrutinise the [algorithmic systems] they are procuring, whilst vendors may limit the information they share with buyers ’ (at 9). This is extremely worrying.

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Procurement Buyers IT Public Procurement 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 18, 2022

While data quality cannot be perfected and some technological innovations aren’t quite ready for prime time, tremendous improvements are possible. In a world where supply chains are increasingly complex and interconnected, the ability to see and manage them effectively has become essential to success. Below, Improve Data Quality.

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Transparency Supply Chain Data Procurement 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Which got me to thinking… If you are a manufacturer, what supplier management practices might you eliminate if you had a clean slate? Throwing drawings over the fence when it is time to quote means your design is locked down and gives buyers little negotiation power for sourcing alternatives. . appeared first on Directworks.

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The Procurement School

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Allows government buyer to consider vendor feedback and make changes before issuing the solicitation. Solicitation Processes Once a government buyer has issued a solicitation, they must balance meeting the government’s needs with maintaining the interest of quality vendors. Avoid jargon and spell out acronyms.

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Supply Chain Buyers Budget Quality 52

Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

To public sector buyers, frameworks are not just tools; they are time-saving, compliance-enhancing, and value-extracting tools from previously assessed suppliers. With its advanced supplier and contract management tools, Intenda streamlines the bidding and contract lifecycle process, offering significant benefits to suppliers.

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Framework Agreement Procurement Tender Buyers 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Instead of dealing with a flood of unstructured or inconsistent feedback from various sources, officials can prioritize key issues and ensure the right team members address them efficiently, making the whole process more manageable. In October 2024, use of the pre-bidding module became mandatory for Mexico City’s buyers. What’s next?

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Collaboration E-procurement Tender Bidding 57

GovCon Chamber of Commerce

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

How do BD, Capture Managers and Proposal Writers Work Together? 'Win Win Strategies': Capture Managers develop strategies for winning specific opportunities. Proposal Themes and Messages: Proposal writers work with BD and Capture Management professionals to develop proposal themes and messages that resonate with the customer.

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Buyers Quality Management Influencing 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Orsay (France), September 02, 2019 – Viparis has chosen e-Procurement software vendor Ivalua and Consulting firm CKS to optimize the management of supplier relations, source-to-contract (purchase orders, calls for tender and contracts), expense analysis and measurement of Procurement performance.

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E-procurement Procurement Tender End to End 53

Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

The platform provides information on contracts available for bidding, buyer behaviour tracking, and market data to facilitate the tendering process. Buyer and competitor tracking: The platform can track the activities of potential customers and competitors. CAG Consultants significantly reduced the time taken to identify opportunities.

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ivalua

JUNE 28, 2021

London, UK – 29 th June 2021 – Research from Ivalua , a leading global spend management cloud provider , has revealed almost two thirds (65%) of suppliers feel late payments are putting their company at financial risk. Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud based Spend Management solutions. About Ivalua.

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Supplier Supply Chain Buyers Collaboration 52