This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Supplychains are complex and varied; to manage them effectively, you need to understand exactly what’s happening in both your supplychain and your customers’ end markets. These teams were able to quickly communicate and negotiate with their key suppliers to establish a “supplier of choice” solution. .
How Inflation Impacts Procurement Inflation affects a number of aspects of a business, including its ability to compete in the market, financial performance, and overall strategy. The key for procurementteams is to stay ahead of inflationary trends so they can anticipate needs and adjust accordingly before problems arise.
Procurement has been uniquely placed on the business front line of this crisis in helping to pivot supplychains from producing make-up to face masks and to finding thousands of items of remote working equipment overnight, or from manufacturing parts for car engines to ventilators. Blending of IT and procurementteams.
The pandemic was a wake-up call for businesses worldwide, who struggled to overcome operational disruption — everything from the transition to remote working, to supplychain chaos. MENA countries import a lot of food; disrupted supplychains and price increases mean potential food shortages. Enter eProcurement.
The total costs, in terms of human lives, disrupted supplychains, ruined businesses and GDP impact, are still just projections in the array of charts presented daily by statisticians and data modelers. There are, however, already some clear lessons to be learned by Procurement and SupplyChain leaders.
Supplychains are complex and varied; to manage them effectively, you need to understand exactly what’s happening in both your supplychain and your customers’ end markets. These teams were able to quickly communicate and negotiate with their key suppliers to establish a “supplier of choice” solution. .
How Inflation Impacts Procurement Inflation affects a number of aspects within the Manufacturing supplychain, including the ability to compete in the market, financial performance, and overall strategy. This ensures contracts remain favorable and all stakeholders comply with negotiated terms. Let’s explore further.
Aegion’s procurementteam planned a multi-phase transformation to deliver efficiency and transparency, while ensuring savings flow to the bottom line. The initial focus is on streamlining the purchasing process, improving the experience for employees, and capturing negotiated savings to support profitability.
During the pandemic, Procurement flexed its muscle, helping to mitigate supplychain disruptions and enable new channels for engaging with customers and fulfilling orders. Historically, Procurement for retail has been largely centralized: Stores request and receive inventory from corporate as needed. Attack GNFR Spend.
It involves a set of principles which guide a company to proactively eliminate unethical practices throughout its supplychain. Ethical procurement requires a company to understand its societal obligations, expectations and social responsibility. Why is Ethical Procurement Important?
In today’s turbulent business landscape, the challenges facing organisations have become increasingly complex, with uncertainty from geopolitical events such as Brexit and tariff negotiations impacting day-to-day operations. Leading the charge in navigating this constantly shifting trading environment is the Procurement department.
Procurement can and should be a significant value generator for the larger organization. There are, in fact different phases of procurement value creation that tie into the Source-to-Pay process: . Creating Value occurs when sourcing and procurement uses relevant sourcing processes and tools to engage and select the best fit supplier.
Under Pressure, Will Procurement Take Performance Higher in 2023? . Procurement and supplychainteams have been trying to hold the line against macroeconomic and global market forces that have been pushing hard against them for nearly three years. Procurement and supplychainteams are under constant pressure.
In procurement, benchmarking involves assessing supplier performance, costs, and processes against industry standards or competitors to ensure you are receiving the best value. Supports better decision-making Provides data-driven insights for procurementteams. Ready to deepen your procurement expertise?
While supplier relationships are priority, external factors such as currency, demand, and cost of energy are affecting pricing and supply. Preparing for these future inflationary changes requires strong negotiation capabilities and long-term resilience. . ACT AS A STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO THE BUSINESS . IMPROVE STAKEHOLDER-CENTRICITY .
The pandemic wreaked havoc on businesses and their supplychains, but even in these trying times, there’s a silver lining. The job of sourcing professionals is to understand the risk in the supplychain and manage it so they can react quickly when a problem occurs.” Start by Putting the Right Technology in Place.
Author: Larry Berglund As part of the assessment on the ability of a supplychain department to deliver value effectively , is its ability to do so efficiently. Many of these factors may not be directly controlled by the supplychain department, such as the ERP system and its ability to leverage digitalized processes.
Soft skills and leadership are key enablers for procurementteams and are as important as technological competence. Noël is looking to have non valuable tasks automated and pointed out that this could benefit not just the procurementteam but the total supplychain. Will AI decimate procurement roles?
The past few years have been a boon for procurement, which has become increasingly strategic and critical to business. The pandemic has accelerated this trend, with the Procurement function front and center in the fight to ensure supplychain resilience and continuity, reduce costs and protect the bottom line.
It starts with identifying the right suppliers for a need, sharing requirements and evaluating supplier offers, selecting the most appropriate supplier, negotiating terms and contracting with them to receive goods and/or services. S2P is the end-to-end process that encompasses all the activities between an organization and its suppliers.
Inclusive Opportunities: Public procurement can be a tool to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion by prioritising contracts with suppliers committed to these ideals. Why Does Social Value Matter In Public Procurement? Aligning these goals with community priorities and adhering to legal requirements ensures a balanced approach.
As organizations look beyond the panic and shocks created by Covid-19, procurement leaders must show that they can contribute to restoring growth and supporting a broader list of objectives. The reality is that too few procurementteams have experience here. A core goal of Ivalua’s in 2021 is to help more leaders do so.
The FIT Act would authorize agencies to make advanced payments for cloud computing services, increase the simplified acquisition threshold from $250,000 to $500,000 and the micro-purchase threshold from $10,000 to $25,000, and require Federal procurement officers to take cross-functional training. Learn more and register here.
The sole source justification process is rigorous and requires approval from the organization’s procurement services, with steps including the completion and review of a justification form, internal review and approvals, and adherence to transparency and compliance regulations to manage risks effectively.
Negotiating Common Enterprise-Wide Software Licenses. Under the BCI, GSA will negotiate Government-wide IT software license agreements with a large (but unnamed) software provider. According to the fact sheet, “prices routinely vary up to 20 percent for the same software across agencies.”
Leveraging Data Across Agencies to Get Lower Prices and Better Terms The Office of Management Budget (OMB) is launching a centralized data management strategy to strengthen acquisition and enhance market and supplychain intelligence, by sharing and analyzing acquisition data across the federal enterprise.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content