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[Pod] Architecting and Enabling Amazing Procurement Teams w/ Fadi El Mouallem

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

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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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The pandemic saw incredible growth in this area and highlighted opportunities for improvement within procurement processes and procedures. As teams worked with suppliers through creative solutions, it became obvious that transparency and supplier risk management are essential components to maintain stability during crises like these.

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Procurement on the Thames: Ivalua’s London Summer Symposium

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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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AI and All That – Ivalua Now Looks to the Future

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That is the data around spend, suppliers, contracts and so on that provides the ammunition or the fuel for AI to work on. Then the “intelligence layer” (machine learning, NLP etc) and finally the “engagement layer” (how we interact with AI across various procurement processes and tasks) sit on top of that. Help build a shopping cart.

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

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Sajid Kunnummal, Vice President and CPO at Navistar, was interviewed in late 2020 by Philip Ideson from Art of Procurement. In fact, the pandemic spurred enormous growth and expansion for Procurement, while helping uncover hidden weaknesses in procurement processes and procedures. Why is visibility so important?

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Pandemic Prepared! 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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In fact, the pandemic spurred enormous growth and expansion for Procurement, while helping uncover hidden weaknesses in procurement processes and procedures. Focus on digital transformation and adopt procurement technology. Navistar had a jump start on putting robust systems in place, but their suppliers didn’t.

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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 isn’t enough though, the value still has to be captured. . Both are essential to the success of every business.