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

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Your procurement strategy should outline short-term and long-term goals, identify potential risks, and focus on building strong supplier relationships. For instance, instead of conducting lengthy RFP processes, your team can access ready-made contracts with industry leading suppliers.

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It’s Time to Rethink Supply Chain Risk Management

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Organizational abilities to effectively assess risk and engage suppliers to mitigate it are woefully lacking in most cases. For example, nearly half (43.9%) of CPOs responding to a recent survey by Ardent Partners indicated that they do not know what percent of their suppliers are high risk. Few knew until impacted.

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What does the German Supply Chain Act Mean for Procurement?

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The act was established to address issues of sustainability and ethical conduct in global supply chains, and has significant implications for companies and procurement organizations operating in Germany. The new set of regulations add an additional layer of compliance and risk management to the procurement process.

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5 Steps Towards Modernizing Supplier Management

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When it comes to the nature of buyer-supplier relationships, we’re entering a brave, new world. Organizations are increasingly dependent on suppliers to successfully bring innovative goods and services to market on time, improve ESG performance, and meet other objectives. Gain control of your supplier data.

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How to Manage Supplier Risk and Performance in an Uncertain Global Economy

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Originally published on Risk Management Monitor. Most companies recognize that good supplier relationships are more than simply arm’s length transactions between opposing parties. The job of procurement is to ensure performance is as promised, risk is low and business objectives are being met through collaboration.

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The Secret to Effective Supplier Onboarding – Tiering 

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One size does not fit all when it comes to supplier onboarding. Best practices have evolved to a tiered approach that segments suppliers and adapts to dynamic business needs. . A tiered approach to supplier onboarding helps Sourcing and Procurement leaders develop a sensible list of checks and resources.

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Why are KPIs Important in Procurement?

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Just because the purchase order is placed with the supplier , our work as procurement professionals is not done. At this stage of the procurement cycle (stage 10), our work should be focusing on the management of the contract to ensure that the supplier is delivering as per our expectations. KPIs also motivate suppliers.

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