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

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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. ’ and this is the way to get those.”

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New Inventory Visibility and Collaboration Capabilities Enhance Ivalua’s Procure-to-Pay Solution

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The solution streamlines and automates the management of inventory levels, the stock replenishment process and collaboration with suppliers for Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), addressing both indirect spend and direct materials needs. Increase supplier autonomy on replenishment orders within the agreed boundaries (i.e.,

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

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Our first day will feature Ivalua’s Founder and CEO, David Khuat-Duy , offering his reimagined vision in a post-pandemic world, leveraging digital transformation to restore growth, and igniting new opportunities for procurement teams and suppliers. Breakout : Supplier collaboration and your Supply Chain Strategy.

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It Pays to Partner! Ivalua + C2FO: A Powerful Strategic Payments Pair

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With new accelerated payment capabilities, users can more readily capture supplier discounts, support growth, and strengthen the supply chain. . Ivalua’s global reach of buyers and their suppliers helps us deliver on our mission-providing access to working capital to businesses so they can grow and thrive. It Pays to Partner!

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Achieving Healthcare Transformation, Powered by Supply Chain

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Quite often there can be a general lack of spend and vendor management and strategic sourcing activities. Due to informal supply chain practices and systems and a lack of direct relationship management of vendors, it is hard to truly have visibility into all spend and all vendors. Watch a BSW webinar here.

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5 Reasons to Attend 2023 Ivalua NOW Paris!

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Breakout Sessions This year, we’ve invited industry thought leaders to join 8 expert panels covering data, supplier collaboration, procurement finance, and vendor management. The interactive sessions will also dedicate time for peer discussion. Listen, learn, and contribute your ideas!

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The Public Procurement Journey: Tools for Modern Challenges

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In two weeks, the LADWP was able to stand-up a solicitations solution with a bid drop-box and a vendor self-service portal. After they designed, built, and deployed the solution, they could register hundreds of suppliers within hours of launching. A Path Forward.