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Altering the When, How and Why of Supplier Information Management

ivalua

Supplier information is typically viewed by procurement organizations as one of two things. It is either a data input, such as what we gather and use in spend analysis, or it is a process by-product, such as the information we gather from prospective suppliers during strategic sourcing. It does not tell us much about the suppliers.

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Recent Changes to Public Contracts Scotland

Scottish Government Procurement

Updates for Supplier users include: Answer automatic recall – Users no longer need to manually recall your answers. Suppliers will also be able to format the text in their responses making it easier to read their responses. The distribution list will not be copied. Users can copy the content of an existing QQ into a new one.

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Achieving Healthcare Transformation, Powered by Supply Chain

ivalua

Shift towards self-contracting and self-distribution: With health systems gaining significant scale and wanting more control over their supply chain, this shift is accelerating. BSW built up a leading supply chain function and established a self-distribution model, all of which helped to improve overall margins. Share on Twitter.

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Portugal's plan for mandatory green public procurement (III - food procurement)

Telles.eu

In a nutshell, the government will ban significant parts of the food distribution network within the EU from participating in food procurement in Portugal and thus tilt the market in favour of suppliers and distributors closer to the customer. Where will they source the food that also is mandatory to be in season?

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The Basics of Negotiation – Planning

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

A BATNA may be that there is another supplier you can source the item or service from, or that you have enough stock to keep production going for another few months until you can find a more suitable supplier. There is likely to be more suppliers in the marketplace and as such the relationship will not be critical.

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Aeyon to Market Vertosoft Products to Public Sector

ExecutiveBiz

Aeyon has entered into an agreement with Vertosoft to distribute and supply the latter's technologies intended to enhance public sector operations.

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Ivalua Launches Collaboration and AI-Powered Innovations to Help Organizations Improve Supply Chain Resilience and Profitability

ivalua

New release features AI-powered contract management, more seamless messaging and communications, supplier risk and performance enhancements and procure-to-pay efficiency . The Message Center is an embedded chat functionality that will enable collaboration and contextual discussions amongst internal users and suppliers.