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What is Strategic Procurement, and How Can Cooperative Purchasing Help?

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By working closely with suppliers, organizations can ensure quality, on-time deliveries, and mutually beneficial partnerships. Tools like eProcurement platforms, contract management systems, and supplier portals streamline tasks such as order processing, invoice management, and supplier communication. Brought to you by:

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How Modern Software Empowers Procurement with Agility and Resilience in Times of Crisis

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In this way, they can be ready to face a crisis like Covid-19 or various other potential challenges — extreme weather caused by climate change, consumer demand for sustainable and ethically produced goods, trade wars or political tensions, to name a few. . Watch the full webinar on-demand here.

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Lessons from the Latest Forrester Wave Reports

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The first, authored by Duncan Jones and published on December 10, is The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement Platforms, Q4 2019 , which covers purchasing and invoicing (similar scope to Gartner’s P2P Suites Magic Quadrant ). In the Forrester reports, Ivalua and Coupa appear as leaders in both the S2C and eprocurement Wave reports.

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How to ride the Source to Pay Wave? 4 Lessons you can learn from Forrester

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The first, authored by Duncan Jones and published on December 10, is The Forrester Wave : eProcurement Platforms, Q4 2019 , which covers purchasing and invoicing (similar scope to Gartner’s P2P Suites Magic Quadrant ). In the Forrester reports, Ivalua and Coupa appear as leaders in both the S2C and eprocurement Wave reports.

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5 Procurement Focus Areas for Cities & Counties in 2020

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While eProcurement punchout catalogs are a popular solution, they only work in some categories of spend and are prone to compliance problems. Co-operatives (or Co-ops), on the other hand, centralize demand and have the effect of lowering prices by leveraging buying power while still preserving choice.

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Accounts Payable Superheroes, It’s Time to Empower your Suppliers

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Product quality improves and the supply chain is more likely to keep humming along, despite disruptions caused by global or political events — which seem to be common these days. Additionally, watch the full on-demand webinar, “Achieve Higher Savings & Become an AP Hero,” to learn more about the Hackett Group’s research findings. .

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Contract Data Management With AI

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Contract Lifecycle management is an area we have seen huge demand in over the last year or two. Christopher Bourez, Artificial Intelligence Architect at Ivalua. Many of our customers leverage our contract management solution for both authoring or contract repositor. retrieval of the original clause or template.

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