American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Strategic procurement is more than just buying goods and services—it’s about creating value, optimizing resources, and aligning purchasing decisions with organizational goals. In this blog, we’ll explore key best practices and show how leveraging group/cooperative purchasing can help you master the art of strategic sourcing.

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Purchasing Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 58

ivalua

AUGUST 18, 2015

The term “supplier collaboration” can mean many things to many people depending on your functional perspective. If you work in product design or engineering, supplier collaboration is focused on integrating strategic suppliers into your product innovation efforts. Innovating.

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Supplier Collaboration Manufacturing Supply Chain 40

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. Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management software.

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Buying Process IT Supplier Supply Chain 52

ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

Quite often there can be a general lack of spend and vendor management and strategic sourcing activities. For example, unique workflow and fields in a requisition to capture doctor, patient, product serial numbers & procedure details and route specific product types to specialized buyers/suppliers.

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Supply Chain Distribution Strategic Sourcing Quality 87

Tracker Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Procurement analytics is quickly becoming a core practice for efficient operations and effective sourcing in today’s rapidly changing business environment. This knowledge enables procurement professionals to streamline operations, optimize spending patterns, and improve supplier performance.

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Efficiency Data Procurement Supply Chain 52

ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They may not consider potential issues of integrations, supplier onboarding, supply chain data management, change management and system optimization, all of which add to complexity and costs. ERPs tend to be built for the back office, so they lack the consumer-like user experience that leads to high user adoption among suppliers.

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ivalua

JULY 7, 2020

Where a business directs its spend can make the difference between an unsustainable imbalance and a sustainable balance to develop society, the environment and the economy equally. Overall, Procurement organisations can influence entire ecosystems of suppliers to develop with this balance in mind. Building Resilience.

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Supply Chain Balance Supplier Procurement 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Ivalua is now the only vendor positioned as a Leader in four separate reports — the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites, The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement Platforms, Q4 2019 and this report.

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Eprocurement Supplier Strategic Sourcing Contract 8

ivalua

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Ivalua is now the only vendor positioned as a Leader in four separate reports — the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites, Gartner Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites, The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement Platforms, Q4 2019 and this report.

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Eprocurement Supplier Strategic Sourcing Contract 8

ivalua

AUGUST 17, 2021

Creating Value occurs when sourcing and procurement uses relevant sourcing processes and tools to engage and select the best fit supplier. Monitoring and measuring value is where the procurement organization takes a holistic view of the Source-to-pay process and supplier relationships. What is Direct Procurement?

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Procurement Team 52

ivalua

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The city of New York adjusting normally cumbersome processes to secure new sources of supply for unprecedented numbers of ventilators. Dankse Bank accelerated supplier payments to help small businesses stay liquid. Sprint’s strategic sourcing transformation, presents a great example, in multiple ways.

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Procurement Supplier Price Leadership 52

ivalua

MAY 15, 2020

He focused initially on sourcing and category management, because that would give the biggest return on investment as the firm moved from contract administration, to tactical sourcing, to true CatMan and strategic sourcing. That also brought additional functionality in new areas such as risk, and supplier performance. “We

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Procurement Supply Chain Strategic Sourcing Category Management 52

ivalua

APRIL 19, 2022

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. Director Strategic Sourcing Digital & Functional Transformation, .

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Chief Procurement Officer Eprocurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

ivalua

MAY 1, 2020

And to maximize the impact of these and other objectives, Procurement needs to be managing all spend and all suppliers. For example, 46% of advanced Procurement departments had bonuses tied to KPIs on supplier risk performance and supply chain disruptions, versus a third of less mature organizations. The same applies to suppliers.

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Supply Chain Management Supplier E-procurement 40

ivalua

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Redwood, CA, 20th December 2021 – Ivalua, a leading provider of global Spend Management Cloud solutions, today announced that Canada’s largest co-operative, Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL), has gone live with its source-to-contract solution which includes a seamless integration to TealBook, the leading supplier data foundation.

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Supplier Integration Integrity Retail 52

ivalua

JULY 4, 2021

System will improve the experience for employees and suppliers while supporting sustainable growth in shareholder value. The initial scope which was delivered in a 5-month project included Supplier Risk and Performance Management, Sourcing and Contract Management.

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