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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It also has an impact on procurement teams as they are responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and ensuring that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget. This helps ensure your contracts remain favorable and that all stakeholders comply with the negotiated terms.

Price

Price Supply Chain Supplier Procurement Team

Friends not Foes, Supplier Relationships Made to Last

ivalua

MAY 31, 2022

Reviewing pandemic responses and strategies, some CPOs and Procurement teams managed a bit better than their peers as uncertainty and change mounted. These teams were able to quickly communicate and negotiate with their key suppliers to establish a “supplier of choice” solution. . Why is Supplier Information so important?

Supplier

Supplier Supply Chain Procurement Team Tender

Governments need to plan for the entire product lifecycle when they purchase technology today

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cross-departmental collaboration and scalable solutions are important to maximizing ROI and adapting to changing citizen demands within budget constraints.” No question, government procurement is different from acquisitions outside the public sector, Cunningham believes.

Purchasing

Purchasing Total Cost of Ownership Government Government

Top Ten CPO Priorities for 2022

ivalua

MARCH 1, 2022

While supplier relationships are priority, external factors such as currency, demand, and cost of energy are affecting pricing and supply. Preparing for these future inflationary changes requires strong negotiation capabilities and long-term resilience. . ACT AS A STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO THE BUSINESS . IMPROVE STAKEHOLDER-CENTRICITY .

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Procurement Team Supplier Procurement

Embracing Technology: How Epping, NH Revolutionized Its Purchasing Process

American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The small team is tasked with managing a wide range of responsibilities, including overseeing the purchasing budget, soliciting and evaluating bids, addressing supplier queries, finalizing purchases, and handling payments. This is a widespread issue across government procurement teams.

Purchasing

Purchasing IT Supplier Negotiation Efficiency

Rome wasn’t Built in a Day, Neither was your Supplier Relationship

ivalua

MARCH 30, 2022

Reviewing pandemic responses and strategies, some CPOs and Procurement teams managed a bit better than their peers as uncertainty and change mounted. These teams were able to quickly communicate and negotiate with their key suppliers to establish a “supplier of choice” solution. . Why is Supplier Information so important?

Supplier

Supplier Supply Chain Procurement Team Tender

Procurement Rising: The Silent Inflation Tax on Manufacturers

ivalua

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It also has an impact on procurement teams as they are responsible for managing supplier relationships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and ensuring that goods and services are delivered on time and within budget. This ensures contracts remain favorable and all stakeholders comply with negotiated terms.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Supply Chain Procurement Supplier

Let’s Get Digital: Introducing your Source-to-Pay Guide

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

It starts with identifying the right suppliers for a need, sharing requirements and evaluating supplier offers, selecting the most appropriate supplier, negotiating terms and contracting with them to receive goods and/or services. Sourcing: Where Procurement often creates value first. Purchasing is also where value is captured (i.e.,

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Supplier E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement

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

ivalua

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In a recent webinar, “ How to Leverage S2P Platforms to Enable Supply Chain Resilience ,” procurement experts from Forrester, Ivalua and Procurement Leaders discussed how digital transformation and the technologies that enable it can help companies mitigate risk and be more agile and resilient. Watch the full webinar on-demand here.

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Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing

Highlighting the Impact of eProcurement in the Public Sector

ivalua

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Jason Busch, Founder of Azul Partners and Procurement Advisor and Futurist Hal Good agreed that digital sourcing is really an opportunity not just to receive and negotiate bids, but to collect supplier information. This, they say, can fuel other procurement processes that have downstream benefits. . On Upcoming Trends.

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Eprocurement Supplier Bidding Public Procurement

Finding the 2nd Right Answer: The Planning Phase of Procurement

The Procurement School

APRIL 17, 2023

Finding the 2nd right answer requires stirring up the procurement team membership and looking at the issues from other perspectives. Bringing a team together is like having the right ingredients for a recipe. Procurement staff know that cycle counts work but a VP says you can’t because auditors say so.

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Procurement Inventory Competitive Bidding Influencing

What are the Supply Chain Management Lessons to Learn from the Covid-19 Crisis

ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

Companies that maintained zero-sum, hard negotiation relationships with suppliers cannot suddenly reset those in a more collaborative mold. I see the same from some suppliers – for example those price gouging on ICU ventilators given the spike in demand. That can’t be established overnight. Digitization is quite simply a must.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management Supplier E-procurement

Oil, Gas and Renewables: Hot Topics in Investing and Arbitrating in LatAm

Kluwer Arbitration

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Rodrigo Bahia explained these put them ‘in line’ with the principles of the rest of the industry internationally which supports levelling the playing field for negotiations, even though the templates still present important concerns. Rodrigo added that the enforceability of these clauses is yet to be tested. It’s a balance.

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Negotiation Public Private Partnership Insurance Procurement Team

Biden-Harris Administration Announces the “Better Contracting Initiative” Strategy to Improve Federal Contracting

Government Contracts Legal Forum

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data will be provided to agencies through on-demand tools and resources. Notably, this tool will also help “advance equity” by allowing agencies to search information to support a procurement decision on whether to use a small business set-aside either on an existing contract or the open market.

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Supply Chain Contract Negotiation Price

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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

Friends not Foes, Supplier Relationships Made to Last

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Embracing Technology: How Epping, NH Revolutionized Its Purchasing Process

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