Management, Procurement Strategies and Procurement Team

How to Relieve Labor Shortage Challenges with Vendor Managed Inventory

American City & Country

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Follow along below to see how Lawson Products , a leading distributor of fleet and facility maintenance solutions, can transform the way facilities and procurement departments procure and manage supplies through Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) services and dedicated support. What is Lawson Vendor Managed Inventory?

Vendor Management

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BRAVIDA’s PROCUREMENT TEAM ACCELERATES ITS DIGITIZATION JOURNEY WITH IVALUA

ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Redwood City, CA February 10, 2022 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that Bravida Holding AB has selected the Ivalua platform to digitize the management of its direct and indirect spend. . Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management software.

Procurement Team

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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

ivalua

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

One way of doing this is by leveraging Source-to-Pay (S2P) solutions, which can provide procurement with the tools needed to manage their supplier relationships and identify opportunities for cost savings. Let’s explore further.

Price

Price Supply Chain Supplier Procurement Team

The Benefits of AI in Procurement

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JULY 28, 2023

AI can bring many benefits to procurement teams and their companies. In this post, we take a look at the benefits of using AI in procurement departments. Information AI allows procurement teams to mine huge amounts of complex data. They can then identify the most relevant and appropriate AI solutions.

Procurement

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What is Ethical Procurement and Why is it Important?

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Ethical procurement requires a company to understand its societal obligations, expectations and social responsibility. Why is Ethical Procurement Important? As such, today’s procurement teams must embed ethics into their processes in addition to the conventional focus on a good ROI.

Ethics

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New Ivalua study shows technology challenges are hindering procurement teams from achieving business objectives

ivalua

MARCH 31, 2020

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. , March 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Ivalua, a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions , has announced the latest findings of a worldwide study of supply chain, procurement and finance business leaders on Effective Procurement Performance Measurement.

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How the National Procurement Policy Statement Will Help Transform Public Procurement

VWV

JUNE 15, 2021

The UK Government is now able to set its own agenda for public procurement and this is reflected in the policy statement. What Does the National Procurement Policy Statement Say? A good example of this is the greater focus on publication of procurement pipelines with the Procurement Bill likely to include sanctions for non-compliance.

Public Procurement

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Navigating the 5 Steps of the Procurement Journey Part 1

The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

These steps may not apply to every procurement but once completed they will inform the procurement strategy which then leads to development of procurement document. Needs analysis ensures an accurate understanding of the goods / services being procured.

Procurement

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Ivalua Study: Tech Challenges Hinder Procurement

ivalua

MARCH 31, 2020

New Ivalua study shows technology challenges are hindering procurement teams from achieving business objectives. The study revealed the challenges procurement teams face when it comes to achieving business objectives and the wide and growing gap in performance between advanced and less mature teams.

Procurement

Procurement Supply Chain Procurement Team Supplier

What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

What does Procurement mean? An organization’s Procurement function is responsible for managing spend, in other words the buying goods and services that are used to make the products sold to customers as well as the purchasing of products and services used to run the organization on a day to day basis.

Procurement

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Top Ten CPO Priorities for 2022

ivalua

MARCH 1, 2022

In late 2021, The Hackett Group asked Procurement Leaders about their strategic priorities and initiatives for the coming year. After a rollercoaster 2021, how do we pivot and plan for a successful Procurement strategy in 2022? . There is no doubt that the future of procurement is becoming increasingly digital.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Procurement Team Supplier Procurement

Paris 2021 – EN – David L Loseby

ivalua

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

– CIPS – SME book reviews: Global supply chain, Diversity Management & Strategic Programme Leadership. David has over 30 years’ experience at senior executive/director level driving value and change through procurement and organisational transformation. .£2.7bn Leadership of the centralised indirect procurement team.

Procurement Strategies

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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

Webinar Recap: Procurement 2022, Big Trends and Predictions

ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2022

During the webinar, Ardent Partners highlighted a series of market trends and predictive scenarios for 2022, focusing on massive challenges brought on by the global pandemic that procurement organizations are facing today and present a thoughtful discourse on the road ahead. Procurement Technology Trends . More on that here.

Procurement

Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Consumer Demands

2023 – A year in review with the Public Procurement Group

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In April, it was pivotal, we launched the public procurement strategy for Scotland, setting out a roadmap for the next five years and giving us an ambitious future vision to put public procurement at the heart of a sustainable economy to maximise value for the people of Scotland. So a lot of hard work there.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement Sustainability Logistics

2023 – A year in review with the Public Procurement Group

Scottish Government Procurement

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In April, it was pivotal, we launched the public procurement strategy for Scotland, setting out a roadmap for the next five years and giving us an ambitious future vision to put public procurement at the heart of a sustainable economy to maximise value for the people of Scotland. So a lot of hard work there.

Public Procurement

Public Procurement Procurement Sustainability Logistics

The AI revolution: Why hardware matters more than ever for government

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cameron Chehreh is the Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Public Sector at Intel Corp. A great example is taking shape at the Air Force Materiel Command, where we’ve helped their procurement team train an AI model on a PC designed to ingest RFPs and compare them against core RFP requirements.

Government

Government Government Demand Data

Public Procurement Central

How to Relieve Labor Shortage Challenges with Vendor Managed Inventory

BRAVIDA’s PROCUREMENT TEAM ACCELERATES ITS DIGITIZATION JOURNEY WITH IVALUA

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Inflation + Source-to-Pay Strategies: The Cure for the Common Price Hike

The Benefits of AI in Procurement

What is Ethical Procurement and Why is it Important?

New Ivalua study shows technology challenges are hindering procurement teams from achieving business objectives

How the National Procurement Policy Statement Will Help Transform Public Procurement

Navigating the 5 Steps of the Procurement Journey Part 1

Ivalua Study: Tech Challenges Hinder Procurement

What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

Top Ten CPO Priorities for 2022

Paris 2021 – EN – David L Loseby

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

Webinar Recap: Procurement 2022, Big Trends and Predictions

2023 – A year in review with the Public Procurement Group

2023 – A year in review with the Public Procurement Group

The AI revolution: Why hardware matters more than ever for government

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