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3 Powerful Ways Procurement will Drive the 2030 Saudi Vision Transformation

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It is an important part of the decision-making process and requires careful consideration of a wide range of factors, such as cost, quality, reliability, and delivery times. Developing and executing category strategies is critical to effective strategic sourcing.

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

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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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10 Things Your ERP Can’t Do (And Why You Need an eProcurement Solution)

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No support for strategic sourcing: ERP systems don‘t offer support for strategic sourcing, which is critical for optimizing spend and driving savings. They’re not tied in to co-op and piggyback sourcing opportunities, and they can’t bring all your sourcing data together to help you make better purchasing decisions.

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Your procurement compliance and risk management checklist

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Our panelists included: Hend Salem , Manager of Strategic Sourcing – Non Clinical at The Ottawa Hospital Carol Izzio , Director of Procurement at Sheridan College Christine McParland , Director of Residence and Ancillary Services at St. Get eProcurement with compliance built-in. Everyone has to buy in.”

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Lessons from the Latest Forrester Wave Reports

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This month Forrester published 2 major Wave reports, which together span the full Source-to-Pay process. 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 ).

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

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Last year Forrester published 2 major Wave reports, which together span the full Source-to-Pay process. 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 ).

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EBA Guidelines – A Call to Action for Banking Sector Procurement?

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In that brief run-through, which covers just some of the key guidance, one important point may have struck you already. This is sensible advice, and really, it could apply to almost every organisation, type and category of Procurement I can imagine.