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Ten years later, agencies still making gains on category management

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billion in costs through category management in fiscal 2024, nearly 29% above their goal for the year. To celebrate our 25th anniversary in 2025, we’re spotlighting 25 pivotal moments that reshaped the way the government operates. By the end of fiscal 2024, $384 billion of the governments contract obligations or 78.5%

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

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Sustainable master data management and governance: As much as 55% of projects fail due to data management issues. ERP solutions often lack robust capabilities around managing all of the data attributes for products and vendors, and cannot update them in real time or in an automated fashion. Demand planning capabilities.

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Thank You for a Successful Spring Training Conference!

The Coalition for Government Procurement

The Coalition for Government Procurement would like to thank everyone who attended and participated in this week’s Spring Training Conference – What is Fair and Reasonable, Part 2: Let’s Continue the Dialogue!

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What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

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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. . Creating Value occurs when sourcing and procurement uses relevant sourcing processes and tools to engage and select the best fit supplier.

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what is the difference between public and private sector procurement?

The Procurement School

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. This is particularly true for sub-federal entities.