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Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium

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Vishal Patel and Peter Hunt delivered their session ‘Creating Value with Strategic Sourcing’ to discuss how Procurement professionals are recognizing that the fast-paced digital landscape of today demands new approaches to category management and strategic sourcing.

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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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Visibility across every aspect of the supplier relationship management is essential to making informed decisions or seizing opportunities, and it’s instrumental in speeding up the procurement process, reducing costs and collaborating with suppliers to better meet the needs of the business.

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Ivalua NOW Part 2 – Re-Imagining Offices and Transforming Procurement

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Post crisis, “the office will be primarily for collaboration, not individual work” and we will see an acceleration of all the digitisation already underway. JLL have been rethinking their own global supply chains, even partnering to set up a whole new hand sanitiser facility when sourcing that item became difficult !

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Thank You for a Successful Spring Training Conference!

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Your participation played a key role in fortifying the partnership between industry and the Federal Government through insightful dialogue, shared visions, and effective collaboration. We would like to sincerely thank our speakers for sharing their insights into the latest policies and programs that shape the Federal procurement landscape.

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Pandemic Prepared! 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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Visibility across every aspect of the supplier relationship management is essential to making informed decisions or seizing opportunities, and it’s instrumental in speeding up the procurement process, reducing costs and collaborating with suppliers to better meet the needs of the business.

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8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience for Manufacturers in a Post-Covid World

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Visibility across every aspect of the supplier relationship management is essential to making informed decisions or seizing opportunities, and it’s instrumental in speeding up the procurement process, reducing costs and collaborating with suppliers to better meet the needs of the business.

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

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Companies that maintained zero-sum, hard negotiation relationships with suppliers cannot suddenly reset those in a more collaborative mold. 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. Collaborate.