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CKS Benelux and Ivalua partner with Punch Powertrain to digitalise strategic sourcing

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Ultimately, the buyer can efficiently compare offers and select the optimal supplier(s) according to a best value/best price logic or lower total cost of ownership. This on-demand electronic sourcing service offering developed by CKS for over fifteen years is particularly popular within the automotive industry.

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CKS Benelux and Ivalua partner with Punch Powertrain to digitalise strategic sourcing

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Ultimately, the buyer can efficiently compare offers and select the optimal supplier(s) according to a best value/best price logic or lower total cost of ownership. This on-demand electronic sourcing service offering developed by CKS for over fifteen years is particularly popular within the automotive industry. Media Contact.

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Strategic sourcing enters a new age. Are you keeping up? (Part 1)

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Strategic sourcing requires an intense focus on the total cost of ownership, while incorporating customer needs, organizational goals, and market conditions. Since its inception in the late 1980s, strategic sourcing has always been about getting the best value for the goods and services purchased from third party suppliers.

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The Purpose of Procurement: How ESG is Changing our Roles

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There will always be a cost of goods to consider but it will be a much broader view with the total cost of ownership internalized as much as possible. Any model which is primarily profit-based from a Supply side needs to be effectively balanced by the Demand side.

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5 best practices for accelerating research computing with AWS

AWS Public Sector

Drivers for data regulation enforcement include: a) increases in cyber-attacks on research data; b) growth of large datasets and artificial intelligence (AI) in research, which needs more complete datasets, and c) more healthcare, finance, and manufacturing datasets, which introduce domain-specific requirements.

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Dispelling the top 8 cloud myths holding back Canadian public sector IT transformation

AWS Public Sector

Myth 2: Cloud costs more Migrating to AWS can significantly reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 66 percent for compute, storage, and networking. Most hardware, software, and equipment required for data centers come from international suppliers, not Canadian manufacturers.

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