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

American City & Country

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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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. The post Why DoD treats non-traditional innovation suppliers as just plain commercial first appeared on Federal News Network. Hear The Federal Drive on demand.

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Smarter collaboration: How Mexico City delivers major projects through inclusive planning

Open Contracting Partnership

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced. Mexico City is proving that big plans lead to better results when citizens and businesses are part of the process.

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Will 2021 be about Cost Reduction or Strategic Supplier Relationships?

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PWC has been publishing the annual procurement survey since 2015, capturing many of the trends in procurement that we now see in organisations, such as the focus on supplier risk management. There seems to be a drive within procurement teams to understand their suppliers and the network of suppliers under their tier one suppliers.

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3 months to go until Meet the Buyer National 2025!

Scottish Government Procurement

Meet the Buyer National is hosted by the Supplier Development Programme and partnered by Scottish Government and Scotland Excel. Meet the Buyer National is the perfect place for suppliers to discover how they can win their share of Scotlands 16bn annual public sector procurement spend. Why should you attend? Whos exhibiting?

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5 reasons companies should own their own supplier network

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In order to understand the evolution of supplier networks you need to have a rudimentary understanding of the Network economy. through email, or messages), business have increasingly looked at networks to connect with their suppliers. Number 1: Your supplier relationship is yours alone.

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Supplier information challenges in the automotive industry

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Quite a few of our customers are located in the Detroit area where we recently hosted a networking event featuring Nexteer Automotive. The audience was extremely engaged as many of them continue to look for better ways to generate the most value from the supplier selection process and ongoing supplier management.