American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Strategic procurement is more than just buying goods and services—it’s about creating value, optimizing resources, and aligning purchasing decisions with organizational goals. In this blog, we’ll explore key best practices and show how leveraging group/cooperative purchasing can help you master the art of strategic sourcing.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Disruptions in global supply chains, labor market shortages, strong consumer demand. How can we mitigate technical, logistical, weather-related, and demand-driven supply chain disruptions? to analyze market data, industry factors, and sourcing information to identify and find pricing trends. What can we expect in 2022?

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Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Consumer Demands 52

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APRIL 17, 2023

Ivalua Spend Management Insights [ivory-search] Source Wisely: Your Top 3 Public Procurement Software Essentials April 17, 2023 | | Public Sector by Jarrod McAdoo Today, state and local governments are tackling top priorities such as legacy modernization, cybersecurity, and cloud computing.

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MARCH 4, 2016

Recently I attended a conference for Strategic Sourcing in the medical device manufacturing sector. getting involved early on in the New Product Introduction ( NPI) cycle to ensure suppliers risk is being properly evaluated in production capacity and quality.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

The second, authored by Andrew Bartels and published on December 18, is The Forrester Wave™: Source-To-Contract Suites, Q4 2019. It covers spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant.

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Supplier Eprocurement E-procurement Integration 59

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MAY 6, 2020

The second, authored by Andrew Bartels and published on December 18, is The Forrester Wave : Source-To-Contract Suites, Q4 2019. It covers spend analysis , sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

” Additionally, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is requesting an additional $12 billion from Congress to meet the increased demand in care resulting from the PACT Act. VA Secretary Denis McDonough said that the supplemental funding “will go directly to earned benefits for about 7 million veterans and their families.”

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Billion in Obligations in Demand Forecast On November 6, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) held a meeting with industry associations, including the Coalition, to present its demand forecast. The presentation included information on DLA contract obligations in FY23 and previous years, and demand projections for FY24.

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E-procurement Supply Chain Telecommunication Contract 52