Art of Procurement

APRIL 30, 2024

Category management processes don’t have to be complicated to be effective. The post Learn from the 4-step Category Management Process Refined by Novartis appeared first on Art of Procurement. You may have seen 8 or even 10 step.

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 9, 2022

The post [Pod] Designing an End-to-End Ecosystem Approach to Procurement Part 2: Category Management appeared first on Art of Procurement. “Digital products become a bedrock of all the processes and the transformation that is taking place in the organization.” –Sanjeev.

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Art of Procurement

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The post [Pod] Improving the Flexibility of your Category Management Skills w/ Steve Trussell appeared first on Art of Procurement. “The first step is answering, ‘What are we trying to accomplish as a company?’ Sometimes that’s the hardest question to.

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Art of Procurement

JANUARY 9, 2023

The post [Pod] Navigating the Perfect Storm Using Category Management w/ Stephane Morel appeared first on Art of Procurement. “We have so many priorities to consider. At the same time, we are navigating through the perfect storm.

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ivalua

JUNE 26, 2023

Blog » Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium June 26, 2023 | | Thought Leadership by Eloise Barnum As businesses navigate through supply chain disruptions, high inflation, and sustainability initiatives, procurement, and supplier management has taken center stage in driving change.

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The Procurement School

JULY 16, 2024

Contract Management is often thought to be the last step in the Procurement life cycle but instead it is both the beginning and end of the procurement cycle and it provides a constant feedback loop. The following article discusses the various steps of contract management and its role in procurement efficiency.

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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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Art of Procurement

OCTOBER 8, 2023

“If you want to be successful in what you do personally or professionally, you’ve got to manage relationships because the. The post Managing Services Procurement on a Grand Scale appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 20, 2024

Services spend is becoming an increasingly important strategic category for procurement to manage as more and more businesses rely on. The post Analyzing the Global State of Services Procurement appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Why should Procurement own Scope 3 Emissions? For most procurement (and supply chain) professionals, the topic of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions should be coming at you from every direction. In the diagram below, it’s clear that the main area of impact for Procurement is upstream Scope 3 emissions.

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ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Why should Procurement own Scope 3 Emissions? For most procurement (and supply chain) professionals, the topic of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions should be coming at you from every direction. In the diagram below, it’s clear that the main area of impact for Procurement is upstream Scope 3 emissions.

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Art of Procurement

MAY 28, 2023

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. “The reason you need AI is because you never know what you don’t know.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 10, 2024

“In procurement’s operating model of the future, internal teams are delivery leaders, relationships builders, and the ones who understand what. The post Announcing the Launch of Art of Procurement SpendPros appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Art of Procurement

APRIL 30, 2023

“In our opinion, you have to take a category management approach to supplier diversity. Find those categories where there is. The post [Pod] Benchmarking Supplier Diversity to Drive Performance w/ Aylin Basom and Lois Eichacker appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Art of Procurement

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The post Escaping the Services Procurement Comfort Zone appeared first on Art of Procurement. “We have to incentivize the supplier to collaborate with us in a way that creates a different way of doing.

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Great Government Through Technology

AUGUST 19, 2024

As part of our ongoing efforts to modernize government IT procurement and management, the Better Contracting Initiative (BCI) has been a cornerstone of our strategy at the Governmentwide IT Program Management Office. Stay tuned as we continue to make strides in transforming government IT procurement for the better.

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Art of Procurement

JULY 28, 2024

The post A Fresh Take on the Future of Procurement with The Hershey Company’s Sherry Ulsh appeared first on Art of Procurement. “You always really need to look at people, process, and technology. If you don’t look at all three and understand.

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Art of Procurement

MARCH 10, 2024

The post Art of Procurement Launches SpendPros, Expert-guided Category and Sourcing Enablement appeared first on Art of Procurement. “If our experts succeed, if the processes we build succeed, it will train the client’s team in what best in.

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The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Author: Graham Allen There are many similarities and differences between public and private procurement. However, the greatest overlap is the procurement life cycle or as some refer to it as the Procurement Journey. A solid procurement like a good building begins with a strong foundation which takes time to build properly.

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Art of Procurement

JANUARY 23, 2023

The post [Pod] Establishing Procurement in a Moonshot Factory w/ Vytas Sliesoraitis appeared first on Art of Procurement. Build the processes. Learn about the product lifecycle. Start to get early wins with different products and.

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Art of Procurement

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Sourcing and purchasing software, especially SaaS products, can sometimes feel like an uphill battle for procurement. The post Dispelling Myths and Unlocking Value in SaaS and Software Procurement appeared first on Art of Procurement. It’s not an “easy”.

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 11, 2022

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

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Open Contracting Partnership

JULY 6, 2023

Public procurement can shape our world. On 15-16 June, together with the governments of Albania, Italy and the Netherlands, we held a conference on Open and Sustainable Procurement in Europe for about 100 procurement leaders from 25 European countries. There were many, many more great examples to share.

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ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

What does Procurement mean? An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The National Health Service (NHS) has been running a centralised model for health care procurement in England for a few years now. This brief written submission responds to the call for evidence issued by the Public Accounts Committee in relation to its Inquiry “NHS Supply Chain and efficiencies in procurement”.

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Art of Procurement

APRIL 2, 2023

“At the end of the day, procurement is a business enabler. The post [Pod] Architecting and Enabling Amazing Procurement Teams w/ Fadi El Mouallem appeared first on Art of Procurement. No company can grow without its suppliers.

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ivalua

APRIL 4, 2019

At 2018’s Sourcing Outlook we had the honor of having Bonava ’s CPO, Mia Lewis, host a roundtable on starting a completely new Procurement organization from scratch. During the active discussion many points were brought up that I believe can be helpful for any Procurement organization, old or new, that is looking for inspiration in 2019.

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ivalua

MARCH 28, 2019

As we move towards a new decade is the emphasis in the procurement world changing – are we going to see a new age, where the Art of Procurement comes to the fore? Technology has radically changed procurement activities and procurement roles across virtually all our spheres of activity.

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ivalua

APRIL 13, 2021

In part 1 of this blog I looked at how procurement can actually create new revenue opportunities. Here I’ll take a look at two other ways that procurement can help support growth. Incentivize procurement w/performance goals & KPIs that encourage supplier collaboration to drive meaningful changes in behavior.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Michael Derrios is the senior procurement executive at the State Department. “It It helps me with category management. But that is not the panacea for category management. At that dollar threshold, we’re expecting program offices to have a more formalized plan and approach for program management.

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 10, 2022

The post [Pod] Designing an End-to-End Ecosystem Approach to Procurement Part 3: Source to Contract appeared first on Art of Procurement. “Organizations have started looking at pain points as challenges to help transform their existing organizations and align them with the.

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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. The procurement data governance framework is now planned to be developed in the second half of 2023.

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Art of Procurement

AUGUST 8, 2022

The post [Pod] Designing an End-to-End Ecosystem Approach to Procurement Part 1: Understanding the Current State and Mapping Out the Solution appeared first on Art of Procurement. “Some of my favorite transformation success stories involve people who started out saying, ‘Please, don’t talk to me; I don’t.

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

Ivalua’s new Environmental Impact Center empowers Procurement and Supply Chain teams with reliable and actionable insight to reduce Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. This data is accessible across Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay solution to facilitate more sustainable procurement decisions within daily operations.

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ivalua

MAY 15, 2020

He talked about the JLL Marketplace, which the firm offers to its clients and firms occupying the buildings it manages. This, he said, was an example of using procurement to drive competitive advantage and revenue. He gave some really useful experienced-based insight into managing a transformation. Rogers had no less than 10 (!)

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 12, 2024

The Coalition for Government Procurement is thrilled to announce the 2023 recipients of the Excellence in Partnership (EIP) Awards! This year, we received nominations across four categories: Lifetime Acquisition Excellence , Acquisition Excellence , Sustainability/Green Excellence , and Advocating for Veterans.

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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. It’s gonna identify use cases.

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