Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) and Scottish Borders Council are set to host the 3rd annual Meet the Buyer South event on 29 October at The Volunteer Hall, Galashiels. However, businesses of all sizes are welcome to attend Meet the Buyer South. appeared first on Public Procurement and Property.

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Scottish Government Procurement

AUGUST 27, 2024

Only two weeks to go until the Supplier Development Programme’s seventh annual Meet the Buyer North event , on 11 September at The Music Hall in Aberdeen. The Supplier Development Programme is also delighted to introduce the first ever Health Zone at Meet the Buyer North, sponsored by NHS National Services Scotland.

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Buyers Supplier Supply Chain Public Procurement 62

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. As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts global supply chains, procurement organizations around the world are scrambling to react.

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Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Procurement Team 69

Scottish Government Procurement

MARCH 6, 2024

The 15 th annual Meet the Buyer National event takes place on Wednesday, 5 June 2024 at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Meet the Buyer 2024 Alongside headline partners, Scottish Government and Scotland Excel, over 55 exhibitors have already signed up to engage with suppliers on the day. However, all are welcome!

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Buyers Procurement Supply Chain Supplier 62

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The past few years have highlighted serious deficiencies in prevalent supply chain strategies and the major risk that disruptions pose to corporate success. years and companies can expect to lose 42% of one year’s EBITDA every decade due to supply chain disruptions. Assessing Risk across the Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Risk Management Management Supplier 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Businesses must start looking to the supply chain to ensure this renewed focus on transparency and accountability. Importantly, the study demonstrates why more needs to be done across the supply chain to assess and measure green credentials regularly. Measure suppliers on carbon emissions.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Supplier Collaboration 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. These challenges in the direct material supply chain pose a real threat, especially in a time of crisis.

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Supply Chain Procurement Procurement Team Supplier 10

American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When you get to numbers like 30,40, even $60,000 in savings, that’s a buyer, that’s a contract coordinator for a lot of counties. It’s also valuable to have access to the cooperative’s market experts and agile navigation through ongoing supply chain disruptions.

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Procurement Team Procurement Purchasing Supply Chain 58

ivalua

MAY 28, 2014

In my last blog post, “ Will your supply chain lead in the next decade? ,” I talked about Gartner’s first-day focus at their Supply Chain Executive Summit in Phoenix, Arizona. This is an especially important message for manufacturers’ supply chain organizations.

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Supply Chain Innovation Total Cost of Ownership Cost of Ownership 40

ivalua

MARCH 4, 2016

Listening to all of the talks by industry leaders led me to a glaring conclusion—the critical role that technology plays in supply chain and sourcing is the giant elephant in the room that no one was talking about, but everyone could see. When the supply base is limited, being the customer of choice is essential. Time is Money.

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Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing Strategic Sourcing 40

ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Customers can now ensure greater supply chain resilience through improved supplier discovery and collaboration, increase efficiency across each step of the source-to-pay process and better understand and optimize cost drivers for goods and services purchased. About Ivalua. Learn more at www.ivalua.com. Media Contact. Michael Gallo.

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Supply Chain Innovation Supplier Collaboration 40

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

John Cockerill was looking for a unified end-to-end spend management platform to be deployed across 4 business units in 22 countries, helping to reduce administrative tasks for the buyers, improve the fluidity of the procurement process and optimize collaboration between internal stakeholder and suppliers in a highly secure environment.

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Procurement Management Supply Chain End to End 89

Art of Procurement

APRIL 4, 2024

China’s role in the global supply chain is changing right before our eyes, leaving foreign buyers to feel the discomfort.

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Supply Chain Buyers Risk Management Supplier 52

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

With the fragmentation and trade in our financial systems and our alliances and our supply chains. You know, any company that has an international supply chain today or a customer base needs to know who it’s doing business with and needs to put in place a system of controls and suitable for what they’re doing.

Export 111

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Art of Procurement

APRIL 4, 2024

China’s role in the global supply chain is changing right before our eyes, leaving foreign buyers to feel the discomfort. The post Even with +1, China is still #1 appeared first on Art of Procurement.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Buyers Procurement Risk Management 52

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. .

E-procurement 94

E-procurement Supplier Buyers Supply Chain 94

ivalua

JUNE 27, 2022

With new accelerated payment capabilities, users can more readily capture supplier discounts, support growth, and strengthen the supply chain. . Ivalua’s global reach of buyers and their suppliers helps us deliver on our mission-providing access to working capital to businesses so they can grow and thrive. It Pays to Partner!

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Supply Chain Buyers Supplier IT 52

Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This commitment extends to their procurement and supply chain management, which is a vital part of sector activity. A shared Supply Chain Climate and Ecological Emergency Strategy has now been agreed by the Principals’ groups of both the University and College sectors in Scotland.

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Supply Chain Public Procurement Procurement Sustainability 70

ivalua

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The study also highlights that most organisations are not communicating across the supply chain to drive green initiatives. For most organisations, emissions from their supply chain are several times greater than their own direct emissions. Notes to the editor.

Supplier 52

Supplier Supply Chain Buyers Sustainability 52

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2022

Businesses must start looking to the supply chain to ensure this renewed focus on transparency and accountability. Importantly, the study demonstrates why more needs to be done across the supply chain to assess and measure green credentials regularly. Measure suppliers on carbon emissions.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Sustainability Supplier Collaboration 52

ivalua

APRIL 20, 2021

Leveraging purchasing power to capture volume- based pricing within a competitive supply chain builds sticky relationships with healthy suppliers, keeps input costs low, and acts as a hedge against inflation. The reality is, to turn inventory, make the sale, and then collect funds takes most buyers over 30 days. Is it worth it?

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Efficiency Buyers Supply Chain Supplier 52

ivalua

MARCH 5, 2020

That includes quite a range of issues now, ranging from climate change and de-forestation to modern slavery or supporting diversity in our supply chains. Sometimes action can be taken by the buyer that either does not affect the supplier or just requires their agreement.

Collaboration 52

Collaboration Procurement Supply Chain Supplier 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In the latest Procurement Leaders Report and Survey , we ask top-performing CPO’s how they’re prioritizing data-enabled supply chain visibility–and the changes that need to be made. By taking steps now to improve supply chain visibility, procurement teams can position their organizations for success in the years to come.

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Transparency Supply Chain Data Procurement 52

Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How I got into procurement My peers all have a 'story' about how they got into procurement without knowing they were actually working in a Supply Chain Management (SCM) role. ​I've never met anyone who studied supply chain management at university because they knew that's what they wanted to do. Read on to find out.

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Supply Chain IT Warehouse Demand 52

Scottish Government Procurement

AUGUST 22, 2024

This one-day event attracts public sector buyers, heads of department and contract managers responsible for managing the national public procurement expenditure of £16 billion a year.

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Procurement Public Procurement Supply Chain Sustainability 60

Federal News Network

JANUARY 2, 2024

For what buyers and sellers can expect in the year ahead, we hear from Sonny Hashmi. So supply chain risk management and elimination becomes a very important discipline. We also have global events that are causing disruptions to the supply chain. And so I don’t minimize the complexity of it.

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Supply Chain Balance Supplier Data 105

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

ivalua

AUGUST 26, 2021

Redwood City, CA – 26th August 2021 – Research from Ivalua, a leading global spend management cloud provider, has revealed more than half (58%) of European suppliers said buyers rarely or never include responsible labour practices in contracts or agreements. The report also identified a lack of consistent monitoring of labour standards.

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SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I was in Iowa last month, John Holtz is headed to Nebraska next week for the Fall Meet the Buyers Government Contracting Conference and Nicole Pottroff will be going to Oklahoma the following week for the ICBS Conference. It’s also conference season at SmallGovCon.com. Please come out to see them if you are in the area.

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Supply Chain Government Contracts Buyers Contract 59

Federal News Network

MARCH 25, 2024

Recognizing that a significant amount of plastic waste comes from “one and done” packaging, the General Services Administration (GSA), among the largest government buyers purchasing a diverse set of products, sought information in connection with an anticipated rule on single-use packaging in products on the MAS. Sustainability.

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Buyers 59

ivalua

JANUARY 29, 2021

Frédéric Lino EVP Purchasing and Supply Chain. He was then promoted to Purchasing Executive Manager at Renault-Nissan, where he will be in charge of seat and raw material amenities with the management of 25 buyers. Frédéric is expanding his scope of responsibility in October 2020 by taking over the Supply Chain function.

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Supply Chain Automotive Purchasing Buyers 40

ivalua

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The study also highlights that most organisations are not communicating across the supply chain to drive green initiatives. For most organisations, emissions from their supply chain are several times greater than their own direct emissions. Notes to the editor.

Supplier 40

Supplier Supply Chain Buyers Sustainability 40

ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Establishing an environment where information is digitally exchanged between buyers and suppliers and where processes are interconnected has become essential in the new generation of procurement and supply chain management. Effectively Managing Supplier Information, Risk & Performance.

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Supply Chain Supplier Buyers Demand 40

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JUNE 27, 2024

The final rule explains that the SUP-free icon is intended to act “as an important discriminator when buyers are making purchasing decisions” so that FSS contractors that adopt this voluntary measure will become more marketable in the federal procurement space. The final rule is effective starting July 8, 2024.

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Procurement Supply Chain Buyers Purchasing 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.

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Supplier Supply Chain Buyers Collaboration 52

ivalua

MARCH 28, 2019

Professionalisation of the function, logic and analysis has also extended into other areas, with a growth in relevant qualifications, all the way through to procurement and supply chain MBAs and even Doctorates. But, as we move towards a new decade, perhaps the wind is shifting, and we may see a different focus in the next ten years.

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