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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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is elevating the position to candidates by making them aware of the various aspects of Procurement beyond sourcing and category management. The power of collaboration allows for more innovative solutions, improved efficiency and a reliable supply chain in even the most uncertain times.

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ERP vs. Best-in-Class — What is Best for Managing the Healthcare Supply Chain

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A purpose-built solution can enforce proper governance and standards, automate master data optimization activities, identify product standardization opportunities, and automate category management for strategic sourcing in supply chain. Efficient warehouse management. Demand planning capabilities.

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Pandemic Prepared! 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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Strategic sourcing professionals may end up doing tactical work, as well. Navistar is elevating the position to candidates by making them aware of the various aspects of Procurement beyond sourcing and category management. Simplify approvals with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.

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

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Strategic sourcing professionals may end up doing tactical work, as well. Navistar is elevating the position to candidates by making them aware of the various aspects of Procurement beyond sourcing and category management. Simplify approvals with clearly defined roles and responsibilities.

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what is the difference between public and private sector procurement?

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demand aggregation As one strategy for meeting this obligation, both sectors look for opportunities for volume buying or ‘demand aggregation’ wherever possible and often approach strategic sourcing from a category management perspective.

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

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Those that selected more rigid technology that is good at driving standard process efficiencies but less so in enabling analysis or connecting stakeholders, or doesn’t address all spend, will struggle to scale efforts. As far as reviewing supplier performance regularly, the results were 97% versus 17%.