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Why DoD treats non-traditional innovation suppliers as just plain commercial

Federal News Network

Interview Transcript: Tom Temin Dan, let’s just begin with why you would want to treat nontraditional suppliers as commercial in the first place. But on the other hand, they have an awareness that this accumulation of rules affects whether the types of innovative companies they want to do business with are willing to participate.

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Friends not Foes, Supplier Relationships Made to Last

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A company’s supply chain is a key source of competitive advantage and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is designed to allow a company to monitor its suppliers and utilize the available resources to improve performance. Let’s address why having the right supplier information and supplier relationships is a must. .

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How Procurement can help to drive Supplier-led innovation

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This means companies are under more pressure than ever to innovate at pace. As a result, the role of the supplier has grown in importance – for example, much of the innovation in the aerospace market comes from suppliers rather than traditional aerospace firms. Cost-focused approaches block innovation.

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Innovation Begins With A Question

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Innovation is a difficult subject for many organizations. Some companies try to radically innovate, while others take an incremental approach. Sometimes innovation occurs by accident, other times it is the result of a methodical approach. To Innovate, Ask “What Is Possible?”. The status quo no longer existed.

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Innovation procurement under the Procurement Act 2023 -- changing procurement culture on the cheap?

How to Crack a Nut

On 13 November 2023, the UK Government published guidance setting out its ambitions for innovation procurement under the new Procurement Act 2023 (not yet in force, of which you can read a summary here). Procurers will be able to better communicate their particular problem to suppliers and work with them to come up with potential solutions.

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Harnessing innovation for the public sector

Scottish Government Procurement

For buyers We have been working hard to enable our public sector to harness innovation to improve public services and the lives of people in Scotland. The service sits separate to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) and contains useful guidance for innovators as well as news, events and case studies.

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Supplier Motivation, A Key Component of Supplier Management

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Convinced that their sizes and brands will attract suppliers anyway, they entrench themselves behind the gates of rigid procurement processes. They miss the huge opportunity of co-innovating with these businesses, especially startups, by failing to take a differentiated approach. In fact, they ask suppliers to assess Procurement too.