Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

If a supplier that was once performing well in relation to delivering excellent quality suddenly starts to present with many defects or lower quality items, this would raise concern. The results of the KPI would flag up reduced performance and allow the buyer to address this issue.

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Import Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 59

ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

getting involved early on in the New Product Introduction ( NPI) cycle to ensure suppliers risk is being properly evaluated in production capacity and quality. When the supply base is limited, being the customer of choice is essential. The post Are you a Supply Chain Visionary Vick or Laggard Larry? Time is Money.

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ivalua

MAY 19, 2022

The high-level benefit of embedding the TransferMate payment solution within the Ivalua Source to Pay journey is that supply chains can become stronger. By removing the friction in global supply chains, for the first time, the payment and the sourcing event are seamlessly linked.

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Supply Chain Supplier Buyers Finance 52

ivalua

AUGUST 11, 2021

Responsible sourcing is the incorporation of ethical, sustainable and socially conscious principles into sourcing, procurement and overall supply chain management practices. This approach ensures that business between a buyer and its suppliers is conducted in a manner that does not negatively impact society or the environment. .

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Supply Chain Supplier Ethics Sustainability 52

The Procurement School

DECEMBER 19, 2022

How can government do better in this current world of supply chain issues and labour shortages? Allows government buyer to consider vendor feedback and make changes before issuing the solicitation. Helps avoid the buyer receiving deliverables that differ from expectations. Avoid jargon and spell out acronyms.

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Supply Chain Buyers Budget Quality 52

Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Ahead of Scot Climate Week 2023 , we welcome a guest blog from the Peatland ACTION project to tell us about the variety of supply chain opportunities and wider peatland restoration work. We will also be in person at the Meet the Buyer North event taking place on 12 September 2023 at Aberdeen Music Hall.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It breaks the bond between Buyer and Supplier, resulting in fragile supply chains and lots of mistrust. No PO, no Pay was born to force suppliers to add PO’s to Invoices by forcing Buyers to create PO’s. So the network providers just haven’t delivered, and only further fractured the link between buyer and supplier. .

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ivalua

AUGUST 21, 2022

This means a significant risk of low commitment rates and low-quality (and therefore unreliable) data. C Supply Chain Leaders” and digital platforms such as “CDP Supply Chain”, for example, are proving helpful in reducing supplier overwhelm and advancing efforts to achieve emission targets (see box on the right).

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

However, they could probably leverage their great buyers in a better way by having proper data delivered to them upfront and allowing them to identify the most strategic new projects. This process can also carry over into the supply chain where Amrest needs visibility and the full strategic payments process to identify key suppliers.

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Finance Supply Chain Procurement Supplier 52

ivalua

JUNE 28, 2021

The research, conducted by Coleman Parkes, surveyed 300 suppliers across the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland, to examine supplier relationships with their buyers. The findings show late payments are having a knock-on effect across the supply chain. Only a quarter (25%) of suppliers said they are always paid on time.

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Supplier Supply Chain Buyers Collaboration 52

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. As the sourcing function evolves, digital procurement technologies have become crucial tools for buyers to capture and report their sustainability achievements.

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Sustainability Buyers Supplier E-procurement 52

Naomi Clews Consultancy

AUGUST 3, 2023

​Have you applied to NHS England, NHS buyers, but had no success? The workshops were perfectly timed and content flowed" Jane - BHTA Proven benefits of my procurement training ​ ​In a world of fake news and unreliable internet resources, my procurement training courses deliver exceptional quality and value.

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Consulting Procurement Tender Supply Chain 52

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Capturing Value occurs when a contract has been established that governs the responsibilities and obligations of both supplier and buyer, and well as when the organization has the right Procure-to-Pay processes in place to ensure compliance to those agreements, goods, services and prices. .

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Team 52

ivalua

JULY 8, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts global supply chains, procurement organizations around the world are scrambling to react. There are many supply chain management lessons to learn from the Covid-19 crisis. Supplier Data Quality & Management in Decision Making. Some of these challenges include limited: .

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Supply Chain Procurement Procurement Team Supplier 10

ivalua

JUNE 6, 2019

If this foundation does not exist or if it is shaky, then buyers don’t know how much the company is spending with a given supplier, let alone how they can improve the efficiency or impact of a given spend category. In this conversation, Cyrille Naux discusses: The business objectives behind Chassis Brakes’ supplier consolidation exercises.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

However, to assess the (abstract) potential of procurement as a regulatory tool, it is worth distinguishing between practical and legal challenges, and to focus on legal challenges that would be present at all levels of public buyer capability. They are thus unlikely to operate as an adequate tool to support regulation by contract.

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Procurement Tender Buyers Contract 52

The Procurement School

AUGUST 11, 2023

Author: Larry Berglund As part of the assessment on the ability of a supply chain department to deliver value effectively , is its ability to do so efficiently. Many of these factors may not be directly controlled by the supply chain department, such as the ERP system and its ability to leverage digitalized processes.

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Efficiency Balance Procurement E-procurement 52

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. Take carbon reductions for example.

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Supplier Management Collaboration Supply Chain 52

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

The contracts govern the relationship between the buyer and supplier, an essential process to inform Procure-to-Pay. He brings a thorough understanding of market trends and digital​ technologies that can help enterprises be more effective ​with their Procurement and Supply Chain strategies.

Supplier 52

Supplier E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

ivalua

APRIL 6, 2021

For many organizations, part or all of the contract lifecycle process is highly inefficient and likely manual, leading to poor visibility of contractual relationships, low levels of contract compliance to terms and conditions, and potential exposure to supply chain risk. What are the benefits Best Practice Contract Management?

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University of Bristol

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Public buyers seeking to procure goods, services or works from the market need to process large amounts of information to choose a responsible provider offering the best possible terms on quality, cost, experience, etc. Emerging approaches in the EU and the UK are suboptimal and stronger governance mechanisms should be created.

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Procurement Government Government Buyers 52

ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

Just as supply chains are better characterized as complex networks than linear progressions of one-to-one product handoffs, supplier information and supplier master data is accessed by a web of users for a myriad of reasons during the life of a contract. How: The Advantages of Having a Single Platform.

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Supplier Management Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing 53

ivalua

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

If something goes wrong with this supplier and you can’t find an alternative supplier quickly, you have a weak spot in your supply chain. 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. .

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Supplier Management Supply Chain Buyers 40

ivalua

MAY 21, 2020

Business today isn’t business as usual, as the COVID-19 pandemic impacts organizations and supply chains across the globe. Procurement teams were just buyers who delivered what other departments told them to buy. Given the changing role of procurement, what leadership qualities are necessary today?

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Supply Chain E-procurement Leadership Supplier 52

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 30, 2024

If we want to tackle climate change, and if we want to have greener, cleaner, and more resilient supply chains, governments will need to buy things in a fundamentally different way. The same study found that about 40% of all emissions related to government procurement could be mitigated for less than US$15 per ton of CO 2 emissions.

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Procurement Public Procurement Green Public Procurement Electronics 61

Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These scenarios often involve a need for expertise, standardization, quality, compatibility, and exclusive availability of products or services. However, a sole source justification based solely on quality, preference, or standard price comparisons is invalid. There are several common scenarios where it is vital.

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Procurement Supplier Price Competitive Bidding 52

ivalua

APRIL 12, 2019

A recent Ivalua study with Forester identified capacity being consumed by operational and manual activities as one barrier, along with a lack of contextual access to insights, and poor data quality as other blockers. So, is AI the light at the end of the tunnel for overworked procurement functions?

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Supplier Capacity Procurement Team Procurement 70

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Therefore, by using the supplier’s desire for payment, and good quality data, top performing organizations can achieve high levels of straight-through-processing and automation. . If at any stage buyer interaction is required, this is provided via a low touch email or mobile friendly interface.

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Supplier Accountability Supply Chain End to End 40

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

These behaviors are commercially advantageous, increasing competition to directly improve quality, drive down costs, and improve project ROI. This is crucial as businesses continue to be faced with supply chain and business challenges.

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