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10 Things Your ERP Can’t Do (And Why You Need an eProcurement Solution)

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No collaboration: ERP systems don’t provide support for collaborative procurement, making it difficult for procurement or evaluation teams to work together. Purpose-built procurement software provides a platform for collaboration, helping procurement teams achieve better and faster results.

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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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Procurement teams are now expected to manage a lot of moving parts — from supplier relations to spend, risk, compliance, contractual obligations, contingency plans and more — and a lack of visibility inhibits their ability to do any of that effectively. Work to achieve 100% supply chain visibility. Why is visibility so important?

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Lost in Public Space: Exploring the Unknown with the Norwegian Public Sector Segment

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Prior to his time at Ivalua, Jarrod held various roles in category and supplier management—including strategic sourcing and procurement team management where he led teams to implement shared service procurement models and Source-to-Pay systems.

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What’s the Difference Between Direct vs Indirect Procurement?

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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. Both are essential to the success of every business.

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Commemorating 10 years of Bonfire

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Coming from the vendor side, I knew our eProcurement platform had the potential to transform sourcing and purchasing in the public sector. Before joining the team, I was a consulting engineer for a small firm and part of my job was submitting RFX responses to the public sector. Driving impact with eProcurement. What’s next?

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We’re BACK! 5 Reasons to attend 2022 Ivalua NOW DC: Stronger Together

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Kicking off the day with our first keynote, Ivalua’s Founder and CEO David Khuat-Duy will present his reimagined vision in a post-pandemic world, leveraging digital transformation to restore growth, and igniting new opportunities for procurement teams and suppliers.

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Procurement Rising – The Time is Now

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The reality is that too few procurement teams have experience here. At Ivalua NOW 2021, which will again be virtual to ensure safety and allow greater participation, we’ve selected “Procurement Rising” as our theme for this reason. Sprint’s strategic sourcing transformation, presents a great example, in multiple ways.