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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Procurement Strategic Sourcing Supply Chain Sustainability 97

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. Now, you need to build your business case to get that budget from Finance. Selecting the right Procure to Pay software will preserve you from failed deployments.

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Eprocurement E-procurement Supplier Purchasing 94

ivalua

JUNE 2, 2016

Challenges in this new manufacturer/supplier partnership Burton cites include: Risk management. This means category managers must work with suppliers much differently and evaluate them based on a wider array of factors. Most companies we see today have their finance departments bogged down with spreadsheets.

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Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Global Sourcing 45

ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

As financing and cash flow is uncertain, cash is once again king and Procurement and AP leaders are being asked to forecast and preserve cash wherever possible. And to maximize the impact of these and other objectives, Procurement needs to be managing all spend and all suppliers. But not more than other objectives.

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Supply Chain Management Supplier E-procurement 40

The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 6, 2024

Our government guests for the meeting are: Clarence Harrison Jr, Senior Advisor, IT Vendor Management Office, ITC, FAS Warren Blankenship, Deputy IT Government-wide Category Manager, Government-wide IT Category Management, ITC, FAS Angela Washington, Office of Business Centers, Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), U.S.

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Procurement Data Strategic Planning Management 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 25, 2024

The Federal Acquisition Service’s IT Category Management Office will also develop a generative AI acquisition resource guide. The report sampled 100 Federal and 100 private sector “cybersecurity decision-makers” representing IT, Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and other industries.

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Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Thresholds 52