Sourcing & Procurement News
Talking Supply Chain Podcast: It’s a Great Time to be in Procurement
On this episode, author Elouise Epstein discusses the changes transforming procurement, and the procurement professional. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.
Coupa Announces Strategic Partnership with Japan Cloud to Establish Coupa K.K.
New joint venture will accelerate Business Spend Management adoption in Japan as companies look to gain more spend visibility and control - Japan is one of the largest public cloud markets in APAC.
Why Procurement and Supply Chain Operations are Smarter Working Together
In the post-COVID world, Supply Chain Planning and Source-to-Pay cycles need to be increasingly dynamic and intertwined starting with greater alignment between the Chief Procurement Officer and the Chief Supply Chain Officer.
The Future of Procurement Arrives at Last
This paper details how digital technologies are on pace to automate most routine procurement processes within three to five years.
2021 Business Spend Management Benchmark Report
In this report we show you how to be ready for the future with the Business Spend Management “Suite 16” KPIs, and how to benchmark your digital transformation across procurement and finance today.
Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Procurement and Supply Chain
Through this paper, we intend to break down some of the essential AI concepts and showcase the game-changing applications that we believe are most relevant in procurement and the supply chain.
Demand Planning, AI, and Agile Decision Making, Solves Anticipated Cargo Demand
The Air Mobility Command of the U.S. Air Force needed to develop an airlift forecast with enough accuracy to book commercial aircraft 12 months in advance.
The 4 Stages of Procurement Maturity
In this guide you will learn how to contain costs and mitigate risk by moving to the next stage in your procurement maturity, and advance to become a partner in driving business innovation.
The Professional Guide to Supplier Relationship Management
Whether you are just stepping into supplier relationship management or looking to improve your existing process, having a great supplier relationship management system is essential.
The Ultimate Guide to Managing Remote Procurement Teams
In this ebook, we detail how Kissflow Procurement Cloud provides a flexible procure-to-pay suite that enables businesses of all sizes to streamline their procurement processes from requisitions to invoice processing and supplier management.
The Pandemic Crisis Management Handbook for Procurement Managers
The goal of this ebook is to give procurement leaders a sense of why it is time for them to step up and lead, how to turn their challenges into opportunities, tasks they can perform to tackle this pandemic and tools they can use to collaborate better and enhance spend visibility.
Why Procurement Needs a New Operating Model
This is the final part of the 3-part series about how companies must evolve their Procurement Operating Model to the next level, accelerate value creation, and make procurement become a competitive advantage to their organization.
A look at Logistics Challenges and Successes with Jonathan Foster, Proxima
In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Johnathan Foster, Principal Consultant, for Proxima Group, a strategic team of procurement specialists with over 25 years of consultation and supply chain experience.
Top Challenges and Solutions for Optimizing Procurement & Inbound Supply Processes
How to improve resilience, lower costs, and optimize operations with demand-driven inbound supply management.
Optimizing Direct Procurement
In this paper, we describe how real-time business network platforms enable a new collaborative relationship between manufacturers, their suppliers, co-manufacturers, logistics providers, and customers.
Six Supply Chain Strategies for Negotiating the Foreseeable Economic Downturn
Procurement and supply chain management executives need to ensure supply chain continuity, safeguard the viability of key suppliers and retain the ability to pivot and scale up production and business activity as we come through the current crisis and enter an eventual recovery.
Digitizing Order-to-Cash: A Step by Step Process
The purpose of this white paper is to provide an understanding of how a company receiving customer orders through multiple channels can find ways to automate and digitize the process.
The Elemica QUALITY | Supplier Quality Management
Align supply chain quality objectives with suppliers, customers, and manufacturing to achieve visibility, higher quality, improved traceability, and compliance.
Focus On Solutions Not Products When It Comes To Digitizing Procurement Operations
The economic and strategic benefits of digitizing procurement are real, but the proliferation of competing technologies has made it difficult for companies to figure out where to start, chief procurement officers should focus on solutions rather than products.
2019 UPS Industrial Buying Dynamics Study
Fourth UPS study of industrial products, buyer behaviors, preferences, and perceptions.
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