Federal News Network

MARCH 26, 2025

And while no one would say government purchasing has exactly become simple in the intervening 10 years, category management and best-in-class contracting have done their share of work toward making things better. The increase in the value of best-in-class contracts over the past four years. of spending was characterized as under management.

Category Management 56

Category Management Management Purchasing Budget 56

ivalua

MAY 30, 2023

By ensuring that the right goods and services are purchased at the right price and delivered on time, procurement can help to ensure that a company or organization achieves its goals. Developing and executing category strategies is critical to effective strategic sourcing.

Procurement 19

Procurement Supply Chain Eprocurement Manufacturing 19

GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The National Science Foundation seeks to inform industry regarding the upcoming Unified Network for Innovative Technology and Engineering, or UNITE, blanket purchase agreement procurement opportunity and has issued a draft solicitation for the strategic sourcing effort.

Professional Services 52

Professional Services Strategic Sourcing Purchasing Procurement 52

ivalua

JULY 6, 2015

The strategic sourcing technology market is a crowded space. Walk the exhibit floor at the annual ISM conference and you’ll easily find more than 40 providers offering a wide variety of e-sourcing solutions. So how do you know if you have the right sourcing technology for your business?

Strategic Sourcing 55

Strategic Sourcing Supplier Negotiation Efficiency 55

ivalua

JULY 27, 2015

attempt to make a point about the relative value of strategic sourcing, I failed to realize that thought leadership is apparently the exclusive domain of pundits. The co-dependency that is increasingly common between suppliers and their customers is gradually eroding out-of-date bullying tactics in purchasing.

Supplier 59

Supplier Leadership Strategic Sourcing Management 59

ivalua

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Engaging suppliers in strategic sourcing events and collaborative cost improvement efforts will ensure that purchased component costs are appropriate to achieve targeted gross margins. Maturity and Decline: Drive Ongoing Innovation and Maximize Margins.

Supplier 56

Supplier Strategic Sourcing Manufacturing Innovation 56

ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

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.

Public Procurement 98

Public Procurement Tender Supplier Procurement 98

ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

According to the panelists, there are some key features and functionality that make best-in-class supply chain solutions a better choice for healthcare organizations: Guided procure-to-pay compliance: The concept of compliant purchasing in healthcare encompases the front-end user experience. Demand planning capabilities.

Supply Chain 88

Supply Chain Management Total Cost of Ownership Warehouse 88

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

As is, the healthcare supply chain is complex with multiple players involved such as manufacturers, distributors and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) supporting and interacting with multiple departments and care delivery points. Quite often there can be a general lack of spend and vendor management and strategic sourcing activities.

Supply Chain 87

Supply Chain Distribution Strategic Sourcing Quality 87

Bonfire

APRIL 3, 2023

There isn’t a place for procurement and its stakeholders to build solicitations and RFPs collaboratively, no place for suppliers to see your solicitations or submit bids, no support for sealed bids, no bid evaluation tools, and no integrated way to track internal and external communication that may be needed later to support a purchasing decision.

Eprocurement 52

Eprocurement Strategic Sourcing Supplier Bidding 52

FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In his role he works closely with multiple government agencies to address their unique enterprise and mission enabling communications requirements, as well as commercial industry partners to identify capabilities and emerging technologies to address customers’ mobility and SATCOM requirements.

Networking 140

Networking Participation Inventory Management Warehouse 140

ivalua

JULY 27, 2015

attempt to make a point about the relative value of strategic sourcing, I failed to realize that thought leadership is apparently the exclusive domain of pundits. The co-dependency that is increasingly common between suppliers and their customers is gradually eroding out-of-date bullying tactics in purchasing.

Supplier 40

Supplier Leadership Strategic Sourcing Management 40

ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Offshore ultra-deep water drilling company to deploy eSourcing globally across its purchasing function. Pacific Drilling requires a fast, efficient and automated sourcing process to support the company’s Purchasing processes. The company has corporate offices in Houston, Texas, with offices in Brazil, Luxembourg and Nigeria.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Purchasing Strategic Sourcing 11

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2022

O-I Glass has chosen Ivalua after assessing technology and process gaps related to strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, category management, vendor quality, sustainability, and compliance.

Buying Process 52

Buying Process Supplier IT Supply Chain 52

ivalua

APRIL 1, 2019

It is either a data input, such as what we gather and use in spend analysis, or it is a process by-product, such as the information we gather from prospective suppliers during strategic sourcing. Instead, it tells us about our own purchasing habits. It does not tell us much about the suppliers.

Supplier 53

Supplier Management Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing 53

ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Insurance: You can also purchase insurance to protect against disruptions in the supply chain. 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.

Supply Chain 97

Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing Procurement Team 97

ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Offshore ultra-deep water drilling company to deploy eSourcing globally across its purchasing function. Pacific Drilling requires a fast, efficient and automated sourcing process to support the company’s Purchasing processes. The company has corporate offices in Houston, Texas, with offices in Brazil, Luxembourg and Nigeria.

Supply Chain 40

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Purchasing Strategic Sourcing 40

ivalua

MARCH 14, 2019

But now with strategic sourcing and category management, the process has become much easier to track, monitor and control. Add sourcing workflow to the mix, and introduce machine learning that can link directly to the supplier and track savings, then you can start to see where the science comes in. appeared first on Ivalua.

Procurement 40

Procurement IT Purchasing Supply Chain 40

ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2019

With Ivalua already positioned as a Leader in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites, Ivalua is now recognized as a Leader by Gartner in two Magic Quadrants citing the Source-to-Pay space. Procure-to-Pay (P2P) suites include both eprocurement and einvoicing capabilities. “We Gartner Inc.,

Procurement 8

Procurement Strategic Sourcing Supplier Eprocurement 8

ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2019

With Ivalua already positioned as a Leader in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites, Ivalua is now recognized as a Leader by Gartner in two Magic Quadrants citing the Source-to-Pay space. Procure-to-Pay (P2P) suites include both eprocurement and einvoicing capabilities. “We Gartner Inc.,

Procurement 8

Procurement Strategic Sourcing Supplier Eprocurement 8

ivalua

APRIL 19, 2022

Director Strategic Sourcing Digital & Functional Transformation, . Honeywell Group will address the audience with “Rethinking Procurement” , sharing their vision toward setting the right foundation to ensure procurement leaders can be prepared for tomorrow. .

Chief Procurement Officer 52

Chief Procurement Officer Eprocurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

FedInsider

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In his role he works closely with multiple government agencies to address their unique enterprise and mission enabling communications requirements, as well as commercial industry partners to identify capabilities and emerging technologies to address customers’ mobility and SATCOM requirements.

Networking 97

Networking E-procurement Engineering Capacity 97

FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In his role he works closely with multiple government agencies to address their unique enterprise and mission enabling communications requirements, as well as commercial industry partners to identify capabilities and emerging technologies to address customers’ mobility and SATCOM requirements.

Telecommunication 98

Telecommunication Engineering Networking E-auction 98

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior purchase data is also used for demand forecasting improving resource management and operational efficiency. With this capability, procurement departments can keep abreast of market trends and utilise strategic sourcing opportunities.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Procurement Data Supply Chain 52

ivalua

APRIL 17, 2023

Let Ivalua help make orchestrating all these puzzle pieces easier so you can get back to driving real ROI through sophisticated purchasing strategies. With smooth integration across multiple platforms comes valuable insights from combining disparate datasets. Can the software grow with you as your needs change?

Public Procurement 52

Public Procurement Procurement Transparency Supplier 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is precisely where organizations see the benefits of a TPRM program built into or working seamlessly with a Strategic Sourcing or Source-to-Pay solution. The importance of a single supplier database and a 360 degree view of all information and activity is often underestimated.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Management Supplier Supply Chain 52

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

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 52

Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Team 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Natacha Trehan, who leads the Purchasing Master’s degree at the University of Grenoble Alpes, will deliver a keynote providing further insights based on her experience working with and advising dozens of procurement organizations over the past decade. Sprint’s strategic sourcing transformation, presents a great example, in multiple ways.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supplier Price Leadership 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Among the most digitalised tasks are transactional processes like invoicing (55%), purchasing (42%) and budget management (33%). But even these numbers show significant improvement is needed, as these manual, repetitive tasks are a constant drain on employee productivity and prevent spending time on more strategic objectives. .

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration Procurement 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This month Forrester published 2 major Wave reports, which together span the full Source-to-Pay process. The first, authored by Duncan Jones and published on December 10, is The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement Platforms, Q4 2019 , which covers purchasing and invoicing (similar scope to Gartner’s P2P Suites Magic Quadrant ).

Supplier 59

Supplier Eprocurement E-procurement Integration 59

The Procurement School

JUNE 25, 2023

demand aggregation As one strategy for meeting this obligation, both sectors look for opportunities for volume buying or ‘demand aggregation’ wherever possible and often approach strategic sourcing from a category management perspective.

Procurement 52

Procurement Public Procurement Thresholds Transparency 52

ivalua

MAY 6, 2020

Last year Forrester published 2 major Wave reports, which together span the full Source-to-Pay process. The first, authored by Duncan Jones and published on December 10, is The Forrester Wave : eProcurement Platforms, Q4 2019 , which covers purchasing and invoicing (similar scope to Gartner’s P2P Suites Magic Quadrant ).

Supplier 52

Supplier Eprocurement E-procurement Integration 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

If you are getting started, you are likely looking to start with technology to address a specific process ( Strategic Sourcing or P2P for example). For advanced respondents looking to build a competitive advantage, the top obstacles are integration of S2P tools followed by Procurement’s change resistance (13%). Plan to avoid those.

Procurement 40

Procurement Supplier Automotive Strategic Sourcing 40

Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

Mike Smith, a former director of strategic sourcing at DHS and now executive vice president at GovConRx, said with the successes of the DHS and other pilots, he hoped the FAR Council would take up this project and support CPARs reforms. But if everyone is rated satisfactory, then CPARs has little to no real value.”

Evaluation 102

Evaluation Bidding Contract Chief Procurement Officer 102

The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The only exceptions are for contracts solely for the purchase of Commercial Off-the-Shelf items or contracts under the $10,000 micro-purchase threshold. After receipt of proposals, the contracting officer determined that the class waiver of the NMR did not apply to the equipment it was purchasing.

Price 52

Price Supply Chain Logistics Procurement 52

Bonfire

MARCH 24, 2022

Coming from the vendor side, I knew our eProcurement platform had the potential to transform sourcing and purchasing in the public sector. When I joined Bonfire over 9 years ago, we were a small startup with a handful of clients. But I could never have known just how successful Bonfire would be. Driving impact with eProcurement.

Eprocurement 52

Eprocurement Public Procurement Procurement Procurement Team 52

The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 16, 2025

Army contracts: the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions 3 Services (ITES-3S) and the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3). This multiple award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (MA-IDIQ) consolidation of two current U.S.

Procurement 40

Procurement Thresholds Professional Services Efficiency 40