Goods & Services, Supplier and Sustainability

Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

Sustainable government procurement is the process of acquiring goods and services that meet the government entity’s needs while minimizing environmental and social impacts. How they carry out that duty, therefore, can affect whether they can achieve their sustainable development goals.” Specifically, SDG 12.7

Purchasing

Purchasing Sustainability E-procurement Procurement

Effectiveness and Efficiency in Public Procurement: Key Pillars for Optimal Resource Management

The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 11, 2024

It is concerned with the “what” of public procurement—focusing on procuring goods , services , and works that meet specific requirements, delivered on time, within budget, and at the required quality. This supports not only the public sector entity and its stakeholders but also the broader community.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Efficiency Procurement Management

The Benefits of Procure-to-Pay

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

At Ivalua, we’ve seen how a Procure-to-Pay business process ensures sustained benefits through good buying practices, improves visibility and swifter issue resolution, and enables proactive management of suppliers. Spend is led away from preferred suppliers. Lots of new suppliers added on a regular basis.

Procurement

Procurement E-auction E-procurement Supplier

The Benefits of Procure-to-Pay

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

At Ivalua, we’ve seen how a Procure-to-Pay business process ensures sustained benefits through good buying practices, improves visibility and swifter issue resolution, and enables proactive management of suppliers. Spend is led away from preferred suppliers. Lots of new suppliers added on a regular basis.

Procurement

Procurement E-auction E-procurement Supplier

3 Ways Procurement Can Help Grow Revenues (Part 2)

ivalua

APRIL 13, 2021

Unlocking Supplier-Led Innovation. Supplier-led innovation can help increase margins, accelerate time to market and differentiate products/services to capture market share. Even in indirect purchasing, giving suppliers more flexibility in how they meet requirements can increase savings and sustainability.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Procurement Supplier Collaboration

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

ivalua

MARCH 9, 2023

Similar to how CRM manages everything around the customer, an S2P platform manages everything around the supplier. It is a crucial process for organizations that are looking to streamline their procurement activities, better manage spend and suppliers and increase operational efficiency. What is Source-to-Pay?

Supplier

Supplier E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement

What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Creating Value occurs when sourcing and procurement uses relevant sourcing processes and tools to engage and select the best fit supplier. Monitoring and measuring value is where the procurement organization takes a holistic view of the Source-to-pay process and supplier relationships. What is Direct Procurement?

Procurement

Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Team

The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector.

Procurement

Procurement Public Procurement Public Goods Accountability

The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Section 826 also requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to issue implementing guidance no later than thirty days after the NDAA’s enactment. The prohibitions do not extend to purchases of goods, services, or technology that connect goods or services to third party services (e.g.,

Government

Government Government Export Data

An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For significant inflation, especially over a sustained time period where there may be multiple adjustments, the superior approach seems to be an Agency-designed clause which relies upon a cost index. ]” [26] I take this as an implied acknowledgment that, generally, FAR 52.216-4 is suited to minor, not major, cost fluctuations.

Government

Government Government Price Contract

Public Procurement Central

Saving the planet through procurement: Governments are identifying ways to use purchasing to achieve and support sustainability goals

Effectiveness and Efficiency in Public Procurement: Key Pillars for Optimal Resource Management

Trending Sources

The Benefits of Procure-to-Pay

The Benefits of Procure-to-Pay

3 Ways Procurement Can Help Grow Revenues (Part 2)

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

What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

The FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act: Key Provisions Government Contractors Should Know

An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

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