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Collaboration Innovation Supplier 
ivalua
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
Historically, if you asked sourcing leaders to name the one competency they felt they needed their procurement and sourcing teams to master in order to achieve ongoing sourcing and supplier management success, most would likely have said negotiation skills. In many cases, collaboration is simply an advanced state of negotiation.
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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. .
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ivalua
AUGUST 18, 2015
The term “supplier collaboration” can mean many things to many people depending on your functional perspective. Let’s examine three ways that better collaboration with supply partners creates value for a manufacturer from product design through demand planning. Innovating.
ivalua
DECEMBER 5, 2019
This means companies are under more pressure than ever to innovate at pace. As a result, the role of the supplier has grown in importance – for example, much of the innovation in the aerospace market comes from suppliers rather than traditional aerospace firms. Cost-focused approaches block innovation.
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ivalua
MAY 28, 2020
The post Forrester Collaborate to Win – Unlocking Supplier Innovation & Value appeared first on Ivalua.
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ivalua
JUNE 3, 2020
The post Forrester Collaborate to Win – Unlocking Supplier Innovation & Value appeared first on Ivalua.
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ivalua
JANUARY 29, 2020
For the vast majority of organisations, suppliers must play their part when it comes to agile business and speed to market. That requires extraordinary work internally and co-ordination with key suppliers. The related objective for that firm is that no less than 70% of those new products should come from supplier-generated ideas. .
How to Crack a Nut
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
On 13 November 2023, the UK Government published guidance setting out its ambitions for innovation procurement under the new Procurement Act 2023 (not yet in force, of which you can read a summary here). Procurers will be able to better communicate their particular problem to suppliers and work with them to come up with potential solutions.
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Scottish Government Procurement
OCTOBER 11, 2023
For buyers We have been working hard to enable our public sector to harness innovation to improve public services and the lives of people in Scotland. The service sits separate to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) and contains useful guidance for innovators as well as news, events and case studies.
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ivalua
JANUARY 31, 2023
This puts the Procurement function in a central role towards establishing a transparent emissions baseline using reliable data and collaborating with suppliers on carbon savings plans to meet reduction targets and for reporting and risk assessment. They can use these models to focus on high-emitting categories and products.
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Open Contracting Partnership
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. Mexico City is proving that big plans lead to better results when citizens and businesses are part of the process.
Scottish Government Procurement
JUNE 24, 2024
Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate’s National Collaborative Procurement Division (NCPD) administers the Scottish national collaborative frameworks and contracts for the whole of the Scottish Public Sector, as well as agreements that can be accessed by central government organisations of the Scottish Government. to £281.31
ivalua
APRIL 8, 2020
As we have already seen in a former blog , enterprises often fail at maximizing the value of collaborating with smaller companies. Convinced that their sizes and brands will attract suppliers anyway, they entrench themselves behind the gates of rigid procurement processes. In fact, they ask suppliers to assess Procurement too.
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ivalua
JUNE 3, 2020
Significant opportunities to improve CSR performance, increase profitability and accelerate innovation linked to improving supplier collaboration. The research, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, found improving collaboration was a priority for 77% of respondents.
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ivalua
JUNE 3, 2020
Significant opportunities to improve CSR performance, increase profitability and accelerate innovation linked to improving supplier collaboration. The research, conducted by Forrester Consulting and commissioned by Ivalua, found improving collaboration was a priority for 77% of respondents.
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Govshop
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The collaboration aims to engage both minority as well as underserved businesses. The new approach seeks to enhance collaboration by minimizing classification levels and enabling sharing with allies and industry partners. This MOU reinforces the ongoing partnership between NASA and MBDA, focusing on mitigating barriers to equity.
ivalua
AUGUST 10, 2015
The audience was extremely engaged as many of them continue to look for better ways to generate the most value from the supplier selection process and ongoing supplier management. Manufacturers need better supplier information. But the lack of timely & accurate supplier information stood as a great impediment.
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GovCon Wire
AUGUST 7, 2024
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) highlighted artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies at its seventh annual Supplier Innovation & Technology Symposium on Tuesday. The company said more than 170 partners and suppliers gathered at the event, which included discussions on how emerging tech can help address customer challenges.
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ivalua
AUGUST 18, 2015
The term “supplier collaboration” can mean many things to many people depending on your functional perspective. Let’s examine three ways that better collaboration with supply partners creates value for a manufacturer from product design through demand planning. Innovating.
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ivalua
JUNE 12, 2020
The need for Procurement to improve collaboration with suppliers, and other stakeholders, has gained broad acceptance in recent years. As supply chains were disrupted, those organizations that had the closest relationships with suppliers were most likely to gain preferred access to keep goods flowing, and effectively forecast.
ivalua
DECEMBER 2, 2015
Product manufacturers have become increasingly dependent on their strategic suppliers to create a competitive advantage in the market. These collaborative supplier partnerships present manufacturers with a number of opportunities to achieve greater product success. Effective Supplier Engagement Requires a Structured Approach.
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ivalua
JANUARY 13, 2016
As manufacturing executives continue to chart the future course of their companies, they often focus on reinventing the production line, improving the speed of innovation, evolving the skill sets of their labor force, achieving operational excellence, and so forth. Collaboration around margin enhancement.
ivalua
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
Historically, if you asked sourcing leaders to name the one competency they felt they needed their procurement and sourcing teams to master in order to achieve ongoing sourcing and supplier management success, most would likely have said negotiation skills. In many cases, collaboration is simply an advanced state of negotiation.
ivalua
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Businesses more reliant than ever on suppliers as the pace of innovation increases, but two-thirds view their relationships as primarily transactional. This comes at a time when pressure is growing on businesses to develop new, innovative products, faster and at a lower cost.
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ivalua
MAY 18, 2022
When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. Organizations are increasingly dependent on suppliers to successfully bring innovative goods and services to market on time, improve ESG performance, and meet other objectives. Gain control of your supplier data.
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Open Contracting Partnership
MARCH 28, 2024
But timelines, bureaucratic hurdles, and intricacies of the procurement process prevent the swift adoption of cutting-edge technology and potential for collaboration with innovative organizations that are essential for reforming existing processes.
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GovCon Wire
AUGUST 12, 2024
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has implemented changes throughout its internal programs and growth offices as the company aims to continue developing “mission-critical software” while collaborating with key industry partners.
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ivalua
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Supplier Relationship Management has taken on new meaning in the unprecedented times in which we find ourselves living. Now is the time to rethink supplier relationships for 2021 and beyond. Supplier Relationship Management – time to rewrite the rule-book? What does this teach us about Supplier Relationships?
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ivalua
AUGUST 16, 2021
A checklist guide to getting the most out of your supplier risk management program. The wave of globalization has made businesses more reliant upon their suppliers than ever before. This reliance can increase supplier risk or uncover a large source of value and supplier innovation for organizations. .
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ivalua
AUGUST 1, 2022
The Future of Supplier Management is Here, and it’s Holistic. Leading, high-performing procurement organizations share one common trait–they consistently prioritize a holistic and integrated approach to Supplier Management. In fact, they go beyond simply supplier management, what they do is Supplier Engagement.
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ivalua
APRIL 23, 2021
The Pixar building is one of the most vivid examples of how successful companies value cross functional collaboration within their organisation. This was delivered initially by having a sizeable atrium in the centre of the single office building to enable people to communicate, which it was assumed would lead to greater collaboration.
GovLoop
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
The past several years have taught government about the importance of collaborative, virtual technology that allows employees to engage and excel from anywhere. Collaborative technology should make it easy for colleagues to work on projects simultaneously, with reliable HD video and audio. How scalable is the collaborative platform?
ivalua
MARCH 29, 2019
Procurement professionals need to think in more innovative ways about how we can drive competitive advantage and shareholder value for our organisations. When it comes to improving existing products (or services), suppliers are often better placed than the business itself to identify opportunities.
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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. .
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GovCon Wire
AUGUST 8, 2024
As the Department of Defense continues to take on emerging global threats, collaboration among the military and industry partners is becoming increasingly critical. During a fireside chat at Leidos’s seventh annual Supplier Innovation & Technology Symposium on Tuesday, Leidos CEO and 2024 Wash100 Awardee Tom Bell and retired Gen.
ivalua
MARCH 5, 2020
Last week, round 40 Procurement leaders got together in the very pleasant surroundings of the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London to talk about collaboration, and to celebrate Ivalua’s increased presence in the UK. My own contribution was to lead a discussion around collaboration.
ivalua
MAY 9, 2019
The most fundamental spend categorization in Procurement is the line between direct and indirect spend, but one effort that transcends this split is supplier management. This includes supplier information management, supply chain risk management/mitigation, and supplier performance management. Industry: Manufacturing.
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ivalua
JUNE 28, 2021
Financial impact of COVID-19 has delayed payments and kept focus on cost, but research shows this is adversely affecting supplier relationships and access to innovation. The research, conducted by Coleman Parkes, surveyed 300 suppliers across the UK, France, Germany and Switzerland, to examine supplier relationships with their buyers.
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ivalua
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Offering customers a market leading source-to-pay platform coupled with powerful supplier discovery, diversity and data enrichment from Tealbook. the ‘Trusted Source of Supplier Data’ today announced a new partnership to provide a seamless experience between Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay Platform and Tealbook’s Supplier Intelligence Platform.
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ivalua
APRIL 23, 2020
The overall theme is the “Journey to Procurement Excellence”, focusing on how Procurement can deliver value through supplier collaboration, supplier risk management and more advanced strategies and capabilities to deal with Procurement and supply chain management risks and challenges – while not forgetting cost and operational perspectives.
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ivalua
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Most companies recognize that good supplier relationships are more than simply arm’s length transactions between opposing parties. The job of procurement is to ensure performance is as promised, risk is low and business objectives are being met through collaboration. Ivalua Supplier Risk and Performance Management Checklist.
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ivalua
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Supply continuity has been left on life support after repeated blockages and restarts, resulting in supplier failure and organisations struggling to onboard new suppliers to kick-start supply. A further 83% say disruption has also slowed down their ability to innovate and develop new products. “As added Saric. added Saric.
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ivalua
JUNE 15, 2022
At our annual Ivalua NOW event in Paris, France–Ivalua asked, “Is your procurement team prepared to respond to unexpected supplier chain issues with speed and agility?”. Automation and innovation are at the forefront of the supply chain industry with procurement acting as a key enabler in the process. Enable innovation.
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ivalua
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Many organisations vowed to reach net zero during COP26, but suppliers say there is a lack of collaboration on green initiatives. Just one-in-ten (10%) suppliers say that organisations always include sustainable practices in contracts and agreements. Suppliers have an important role to play in tackling climate change.
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