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Körber strengthens strategic and operational procurement with Ivalua and OptiBuy

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For Körber’s supply chain management community, quality, innovative strength, legal certainty, adherence to delivery dates and the sustainability of suppliers and service providers play a decisive role – as does cost. The goal was to increase efficiency across the Group’s Business Areas.

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Procurement: The Startup’s New Best Friend?

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Often, we see suppliers to the enterprise participating in the incubators. Yet, these initiatives are rarely owned by Procurement. On the contrary, Procurement often plays the bad cop role, creating barriers to onboard new and innovative suppliers, asking for endless compliance documents, ending the magic of the incubation.

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

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In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. Procurement Teams Step-up. A Blueprint for Demonstrating the value of Strategic Procurement.

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Ivalua Further Grows its Procurement Solution Business in Canada

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TELUS’ procurement team set out to reduce off-contract buying in order to avoid the erosion of negotiated pricing and service levels of its suppliers. We created a buying experience that is tailored, elegant, and most importantly, has been adopted across a complex organization.

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Paris 2021 – EN – Taid Qazi

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Taid spent the last 3 years as Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) in Danske Bank, headquartered in Copenhagen (Denmark). One important element of the agenda has been to digitalize the Procurement function to benefit employees, suppliers and customers.

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Webinar Recap: Data as the Driver of Effective Procurement Transformation

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How do Chief Procurement Officers and their teams leverage digital transformation to take control of their data and better deliver against their strategic objectives? . Alex, how important was data during and after the pandemic? Can you elaborate on the importance of building a solid data foundation?

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Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

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As environmental issues have become more important to governments and administrations within the last few decades, it has gotten easier to identify ways to leverage purchasing to support these goals. BU arranges for suppliers to take back equipment that has reached the end of its useful life, minimizing waste to the landfill.