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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 greatly increases the company’s agility, allowing highly efficient purchasing operations.

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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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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. The company operates five R&D centers and three manufacturing facilities in Europe and China. For more information visit www.punchpowertrain.com.

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Supply chain innovation through the Nexus of Forces

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This is an especially important message for manufacturers’ supply chain organizations. In sourcing, successful manufacturers exploit all available information and analytics to make informed, strategic decisions in support of future success. The world around us is becoming digital at an increasing pace.

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Deepen Your Understanding to Improve Supplier Engagement

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Driven by a desire by manufacturers to insulate themselves from spiraling labor costs, manufacturers shifted production of parts and components into the supply chain. This includes total cost of ownership data, detailed supplier profiles, and external business intelligence. Create a specific data map.

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

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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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5 best practices for accelerating research computing with AWS

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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.