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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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O-I Glass selects Ivalua to streamline its Global Direct and Indirect Source-to-Pay Processes

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O-I Glass has chosen Ivalua after assessing technology and process gaps related to strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, category management, vendor quality, sustainability, and compliance.

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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. It’s critical to communicate how the function has evolved and the impact procurement professionals can have on a business’s success, particularly in a post-Covid world.

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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. Demand planning capabilities.

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Ivalua NOW Part 2 – Re-Imagining Offices and Transforming Procurement

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He focused initially on sourcing and category management, because that would give the biggest return on investment as the firm moved from contract administration, to tactical sourcing, to true CatMan and strategic sourcing. Simplification of systems and tools was a key part of the programme.

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Ivalua Now and the Art – or is it the Science – of Procurement?

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But now with strategic sourcing and category management, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. Add sourcing workflow to the mix, and introduce machine learning that can link directly to the supplier and track savings, then you can start to see where the science comes in.

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Thank You for a Successful Spring Training Conference!

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Day One Speakers Keynote Speakers: Christine Harada , Senior Advisor, OFPP, OMB Moshe Schwartz , President, Etherton and Associates Panelists: Bonnie Evangelista , Acting Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer for Acquisitions, DoD Polly Hall , Senior Advisor to the Chief Procurement Officer, DHS Udaya Patnaik , Chief Innovation (..)