Change Management, Collaboration and Supplier

Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 4, 2025

Engage with the market and make contract opportunities attractive to more suppliers Alongside investment in domestic country systems, the World Bank can strengthen its own procurement, through the stronger use of strategic procurement plans for each project.

Procurement

Procurement Collaboration E-procurement Procurement Team

Friends not Foes, Supplier Relationships Made to Last

ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

A company’s supply chain is a key source of competitive advantage and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is designed to allow a company to monitor its suppliers and utilize the available resources to improve performance. Let’s address why having the right supplier information and supplier relationships is a must. .

Supplier

Supplier Supply Chain Procurement Team Tender

Will 2021 be about Cost Reduction or Strategic Supplier Relationships?

ivalua

JANUARY 29, 2021

PWC has been publishing the annual procurement survey since 2015, capturing many of the trends in procurement that we now see in organisations, such as the focus on supplier risk management. There seems to be a drive within procurement teams to understand their suppliers and the network of suppliers under their tier one suppliers.

Supplier

Supplier Supply Chain Procurement Team Risk Management

Rome wasn’t Built in a Day, Neither was your Supplier Relationship

ivalua

MARCH 30, 2022

A company’s supply chain is a key source of competitive advantage and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is designed to allow a company to monitor its suppliers and utilize the available resources to improve performance. Let’s address why having the right supplier information and supplier relationships is a must. .

Supplier

Supplier Supply Chain Procurement Team Tender

Managing Supply Chain Disruptions: U.S., U.K. Manufacturers Accelerate Procurement

ivalua

JULY 14, 2022

The right technology can help provide the transparency needed to better assess risk and contingency options, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of collaboration with suppliers.”. Notably, 71% of procurement leaders say they’ve had a supplier take advantage of supply chain problems to unjustifiably increase prices.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Manufacturing Procurement Management

JOLLIBEE FOODS CORPORATION successfully deploys IVALUA with CONSUS to transform procurement

ivalua

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Food service leader digitizes procurement to drive efficiency, transparency and effective supplier management as it accelerates global expansion. Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) is a chain of fast food restaurants with a worldwide store network of more than 5,000 stores.

Procurement

Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Chief Procurement Officer

The Keys to Successful Digital Transformation – You Must Spot the Differences

ivalua

MAY 7, 2019

Top of the list is supplier adoption. But that goes hand in hand with supplier adoption. If your suppliers aren’t onboarded, users can’t find what they need and have an excuse to go around your system. Intermediate departments struggled with supplier adoption, user adoption and data quality.

Supplier

Supplier Capacity Integration Integrity

Pigs Get Fed; Hogs Get Slaughtered

ivalua

MARCH 15, 2016

He said he had seen it all in supply base management and had experienced the feeling of victory leaving plenty of blood on the floor in negotiating with suppliers in his day. He cautioned us that this was a slippery slope and “You will all need suppliers to save your butt one day, never forget that”. It is smart business.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Supplier Real-time Visibility Negotiation

It’s Time to Rethink Supply Chain Risk Management

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Organizational abilities to effectively assess risk and engage suppliers to mitigate it are woefully lacking in most cases. For example, nearly half (43.9%) of CPOs responding to a recent survey by Ardent Partners indicated that they do not know what percent of their suppliers are high risk. Has past performance exceeded a threshold?

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Risk Management Management Supplier

The Opportunity — and Challenges — for Digital Transformation in MENA

ivalua

JUNE 16, 2021

For the short-term, a shift to local production alleviated reliance on Asian suppliers and helped mitigate risk, but a longer-term solution will require identifying opportunities to optimize costs, find alternative suppliers and enhance supply chain visibility. Enter eProcurement.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Eprocurement Procurement Team Supplier

Streamlining Public Procurement: 6 Strategies for Efficiency and Compliance

ivalua

JANUARY 12, 2023

Can an organization start with a Public Portal and Supplier Management Solution and then add solicitations, contract management, and purchasing solutions as they mature or as funding becomes available ? The same is true of the suppliers that will interact through any solution. Improving Collaboration .

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Efficiency Procurement Procurement Team

Procurement Rising – The Time is Now

ivalua

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Dankse Bank accelerated supplier payments to help small businesses stay liquid. Only effective collaboration will reveal the possibilities. And it can connect internal stakeholders and suppliers to scale collaboration (think of the many stakeholders needed to launch a new product or drive ongoing improvements in sustainability).

Procurement

Procurement Supplier Price Leadership

Public Sector eProcurement Implementation: Ways to Mitigate Risk and Ensure Success

ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Change Management. Communication is the largest part of change management, but it deserves independent consideration as well. Ensuring that there is a dedicated change management workstream mitigates the risk level of the entire implementation. Where are the greatest changes taking place?

Eprocurement

Eprocurement Change Management Influencing Procurement

Uncertain Times Call for Strong Leaders: A Q&A with Dawn Tiura

ivalua

MAY 21, 2020

For example, in many organizations, different business units buy similar products from multiple suppliers instead of buying everything from one supplier and benefiting from economies of scale. And we can run security checks on suppliers to make sure we don’t experience a cyber incident with a company that’s under contract.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain E-procurement Supplier Leadership

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Three ways World Bank procurement can drive collaboration for the SDGs

Friends not Foes, Supplier Relationships Made to Last

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Will 2021 be about Cost Reduction or Strategic Supplier Relationships?

Rome wasn’t Built in a Day, Neither was your Supplier Relationship

Managing Supply Chain Disruptions: U.S., U.K. Manufacturers Accelerate Procurement

JOLLIBEE FOODS CORPORATION successfully deploys IVALUA with CONSUS to transform procurement

The Keys to Successful Digital Transformation – You Must Spot the Differences

Pigs Get Fed; Hogs Get Slaughtered

It’s Time to Rethink Supply Chain Risk Management

The Opportunity — and Challenges — for Digital Transformation in MENA

Streamlining Public Procurement: 6 Strategies for Efficiency and Compliance

Procurement Rising – The Time is Now

Public Sector eProcurement Implementation: Ways to Mitigate Risk and Ensure Success

Uncertain Times Call for Strong Leaders: A Q&A with Dawn Tiura

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