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What is eProcurement?

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Also, an eprocurement solution provides you with clean spend data, which is the basis for a sound spend analysis and eventually relevant category management. For instance, purchase orders could be directly amended by a supplier to reflect his stock or delivery capacity. Freed resource capacity for strategic procurement.

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How Kazakhstan is combating non-competitive procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

OCP provides coalition members with data analytics and capacity-building support to promote fair, efficient, and sustainable public procurement in Kazakhstan. Increasing the capacity of civic procurement monitors The Coalition regularly conducts training on civic procurement monitoring, including a training-of-trainers in 2024.

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AI and All That – Ivalua Now Looks to the Future

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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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Contract Management’s Impact on Procurement Efficiency

The Procurement School

Supplier Development A robust contract management process includes ongoing supplier development. This includes researching and meeting potential vendors to understand their capability and capacity for future business. Written by Graham Allen Graham Allen is a retired public sector Category Manager.

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What are the Supply Chain Management Lessons to Learn from the Covid-19 Crisis

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Some lessons regarding managing supply chain risk may still help in the near term as companies struggle to reconfigure their supply base to an evolving pandemic. First, category managers should look to investment professionals and take a broad portfolio view of supplier risk management.

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How federal contracting looks to women-owned businesses

Federal News Network

When you look at it from a taxpayer standpoint, category management or, you know, bundling or consolidating, consolidating, buying power makes a whole lot of sense from a tax payer standpoint. Now I start to grow my capacity and be able to provide better services. The way that the federal government buys is changing over time.

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