SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As larger companies have consolidated, there are fewer small businesses; (3) category management has been pegged by some as resulting in a decrease in overall contracts, as more contracts are pushed to government wide acquisition contracts (or GWACs). Why Are Cases Sustained?

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

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. The answer is simple – automation.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

The effectiveness of efforts to combat non-competitive practices in the general government procurement market can be assessed because of machine-readable data provided by the government and public analytics tools built by third parties. The data also indicates that buyers are making a concerted effort to improve their planning.

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FedScoop

APRIL 19, 2024

The agency plans to partner closely with industry, she added, and its IT category management office within the Federal Acquisition Service is in the process of developing an acquisition resource guide for generative AI and specialized computing infrastructure. And it is never sold.”

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Federal News Network

JULY 8, 2024

The Office Of Management and Budget and General Services Administration have been fielding a data integration tool to help contracting officers. Dubbed Co-Pilot, it gathers data from various governmentwide procurement systems, and presents buyers with pricing histories, vendor information and other data to help their decisions.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week in federal government contracting news looked at a new CR, cloud procurement requirements, and another push towards category management.

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ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

Also, an eprocurement solution provides you with clean spend data, which is the basis for a sound spend analysis and eventually relevant category management. Alerts inform you of any deviation which allows you to set up mitigation plans and follow up on corrective actions.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 12, 2023

The post [Pod] Stop Shadow Spend in Its Tracks With Improved Data Visibility w/ Emily Campbell and Nick Pinkman appeared first on Art of Procurement. “Even the largest cloud providers are somewhat incentivized to help save their customers money. They know that if they want.

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ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Below, we list a few high-level actions to get you started: Establish a strategy to generate reliable Scope 3 emission data based on categories and spend. It will require a combination of 3rd party data (from sources such as Exiobase, Ademe, CDP, etc), supplier data and spend data (e.g., POs, and invoices).

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ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Below, we list a few high-level actions to get you started: Establish a strategy to generate reliable Scope 3 emission data based on categories and spend. It will require a combination of 3rd party data (from sources such as Exiobase, Ademe, CDP, etc), supplier data and spend data (e.g., POs, and invoices).

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They may not consider potential issues of integrations, supplier onboarding, supply chain data management, change management and system optimization, all of which add to complexity and costs. Sustainable master data management and governance: As much as 55% of projects fail due to data management issues.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 1, 2023

What have you been seeing over the last several years as you’ve examined the data? Ashley Sanderson The contracting spend has gone. There’s the category management push, right? It went down in 2021, as we saw, but it has been growing. That’s definitely what we’re seeing.

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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. That means the “data layer” which must provide a “unified data foundation”. Help build a shopping cart.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 2, 2024

Acquisition is the primary way where the government gets access to the products and services that it needs to deliver on the mission, and it’s data driven process. 100% of acquisition, the heart of the smart modern acquisition is data. And we’ve done significant work over the last few years to get our data position strong.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Build a Solid Data Foundation. The success of any transparency strategy relies heavily on building a solid data foundation, particularly when it comes to suppliers. Data will almost certainly come from a variety of sources – the supplier, employees and a range of 3rd party sources. Take a Portfolio Approach to Category Risk.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2022

O-I Glass has chosen Ivalua after assessing technology and process gaps related to strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, category management, vendor quality, sustainability, and compliance.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

Felix Zimmermann from the German government shared how Germany is integrating sustainability and inclusion into its practices through a monthly roadmap for ICT procurement, training programs for vendors, digitization, and improving data management, including publishing open contracting data through the Bekanntmachungsservice ÖffentlicheVergabe.de.

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ivalua

APRIL 13, 2021

Success requires the following: Gain control of enterprise supplier data. Effectively category management, including assessing and monitoring suppliers and your risk exposure, is not possible without quality data.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

The 2020 European strategy for data ear-marked public procurement as a high priority area for the development of common European data spaces for public administrations. In many cases, the data quality needs to be improved. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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Art of Procurement

MAY 21, 2023

“Should-cost analysis is just a tool. Even if you have a clear breakdown, if you do not have a good. The post [Pod] Getting to Know Should-Cost Analysis w/ Yushiro Kato appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

But now with strategic sourcing and category management, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. We still need – for the moment at least – human insight into the data and what to do with it.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 12, 2024

George held several leadership positions within the agency, including Regional Commissioner of the Greater Southwest Region, and he served as the inaugural Government-wide Category Manager for Industrial Products and Services. KARL STORZ aims to support not only veterans receiving care, but also those in the workplace.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

The report provides insights into the Federal market, including sales data on the GSA and VA Schedules, government-wide contract vehicles, Federal healthcare contracts, and more. If you have any questions or topics for future reports, please contact Michael Hanafin at mhanafin@thecgp.org.

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 11, 2022

“If your data feeds back into your upstream processes, that helps you make better decisions and eventually helps the overall. The post [Pod] Designing an End-to-End Ecosystem Approach to Procurement Part 4: Procure to Pay appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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GovSpend

DECEMBER 21, 2023

When working with federal government contractors, particularly in the federal intelligence sector, it is always fascinating to observe and comprehend how data is utilized, whether it be for identifying opportunities, analyzing past performance, or finding potential partners.

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Great Government Through Technology

AUGUST 19, 2024

Steps to success The ITVMO first identifies target OEMs by soliciting quantitative and qualitative data from all 24 Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act agencies.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Identifying Value , is where procurement teams leverage spend data and spend analysis to understand trends in spend and identify opportunities and develop category management strategies. . There are, in fact different phases of procurement value creation that tie into the Source-to-Pay process: . What is Indirect Procurement?

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ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

This means category managers must work with suppliers much differently and evaluate them based on a wider array of factors. To do this, you need to have the right data, workflow, and technology that gives a snapshot of supplier profiles and history at the push of a button. Today this rarely exists.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2020

Back to the marketplace – JLL chose Ivalua because of the cultural fit between the firms as well as the strong focus on customer experience, innovation , and data , which matched the JLL philosophy. His long-term vision is a digitally enabled self-serve model for users, with hands-on support when needed and full ”procurement oversight”.

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Art of Procurement

MAY 28, 2023

“The reason you need AI is because you never know what you don’t know. Procurement has to be able to. The post [Pod] Exploring the Potential for Applying AI in Procurement w/ Florin Tufan appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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GovSpend

DECEMBER 21, 2023

When working with federal government contractors, particularly in the federal intelligence sector, it is always fascinating to observe and comprehend how data is utilized, whether it be for identifying opportunities, analyzing past performance, or finding potential partners.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MAY 13, 2024

Day One Speakers Keynote Speakers: Christine Harada , Senior Advisor, OFPP, OMB Moshe Schwartz , President, Etherton and Associates Panelists: Bonnie Evangelista , Acting Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer for Acquisitions, DoD Polly Hall , Senior Advisor to the Chief Procurement Officer, DHS Udaya Patnaik , Chief Innovation (..)

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ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

The total costs, in terms of human lives, disrupted supply chains, ruined businesses and GDP impact, are still just projections in the array of charts presented daily by statisticians and data modelers. First, category managers should look to investment professionals and take a broad portfolio view of supplier risk management.

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ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

According to Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, supply chain data visibility is the number one driving force behind creating resiliency. “It Navistar is elevating the position to candidates by making them aware of the various aspects of Procurement beyond sourcing and category management.

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ivalua

MARCH 16, 2021

According to Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, supply chain data visibility is the number one driving force behind creating resiliency. “It Navistar is elevating the position to candidates by making them aware of the various aspects of Procurement beyond sourcing and category management.

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ivalua

APRIL 11, 2019

He also talked about the recent release and the new features there, such as a new user interface across the platform, a new category management module (which I want to investigate more) and an integrated “digital assistant” at platform level.

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Art of Procurement

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“We usually call it the ‘paradox of choice’ when everybody wants selection but, if you put too much selection in. The post [Pod] Preparing to Meet Traveler Expectations in the Face of the Unknown w/ Martin Biermann appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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