Sourcing & Procurement

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 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.

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.

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.

How to improve resilience, lower costs, and optimize operations with demand-driven inbound supply management.

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.

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.

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.

Align supply chain quality objectives with suppliers, customers, and manufacturing to achieve visibility, higher quality, improved traceability, and compliance.

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.

Fourth UPS study of industrial products, buyer behaviors, preferences, and perceptions.

UPS report finds generational buying preferences are changing the traditional industrial model.

Developing and executing the right kind of supplier relationship based on the right kind of sourcing business model moves an organization from traditional supplier relationship management to the next generation.

This white paper is a collaborative effort among the University of Tennessee, the Sourcing Industry Group, the Center for Outsourcing Research and Education, the International Association for Contracts and Commercial Management, and was the inspiration for the 2015 book, Strategic Sourcing in the New Economy: Harnessing the Potential of Sourcing Business Models in Modern Procurement.

This case study is a perfect example of the journey of Telia Company AB, a Swedish listed telecommunications company and mobile network operator, of the dynamics of the Vested learning and implementation process.

This case study details how Dell and FedEx Supply Chain stopped thinking about “What’s in it for Me (WIIFMe)” and embraced Vested’s “What’s in it for We (WIIFWe)” mindset, and how, by reinventing their relationship achieved record-breaking results.

To reduce incidents and keep production and workflow moving as planned, it’s critical for your contractors and suppliers to understand all policies and follow them exactly as required.

Here are some best practices you can follow that can help you choose a solution that can meet your needs and those of your suppliers.

CFOs may not always be the most publicly visible executives compared with CEOs and other senior leaders, but in a rapidly changing world full of new challenges and risks, finance executives can be the stewards who guide companies toward growth.

Procurement is getting its digitized act together and while supply chain managers have been slow to integrate digitization in the procurement function, the trend may finally be gaining traction, says a new report.