Sourcing & Procurement News
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.
Generational Disruption Shifts Norms for Industrial Distributors
UPS report finds generational buying preferences are changing the traditional industrial model.
Enhance the Value of Your Supply Chain Supplier Relationships
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.
Featured Companies
Institute for Supply Management
Founded in 1915, ISM®'s mission is to enhance the value and performance of procurement and supply chain management practitioners and their organizations worldwide. By executing and extending its mission through education, research, standards of excellence and information dissemination — including the…
Chainyard is not just a team of Blockchain enthusiasts, but also a dynamic organization with the people, process and technology that goes with developing world-class business and software solutions.
Oracle provides the most complete suite of supply chain applications, Oracle supply chain management is comprised of: value chain planning, value chain execution, product lifecycle management, advanced procurement, asset lifecycle management, order orchestration and fulfillment, and manufacturing. Oracle customers can…
PROS Holdings, Inc. (PROS) is a revenue and profit realization company that helps B2B and B2C customers realize their potential through the blend of simplicity and data science. PROS offers cloud solutions to help accelerate sales, formulate winning…
Syncron solutions create agile and streamlined supply and demand chain management processes that improve your competitiveness and financial performance. With Syncron’s industry-leading software and expert supply chain consultants, managing a complex global supply chain is easy.
Bamboo Rose is the leading product innovation platform connecting the retail community to discover, develop and deliver products at consumer speed. Our company is made up of retail experts with decades of experience at some of the largest global retailers.…
BravoSolution is a leading global strategic procurement solution provider. Our procurement technology platform and practitioner experience help more than 600 companies and over 100,000 procurement professionals in over 70 countries unlock the power of procurement to drive financial performance, develop procurement organizational excellence,…
Apptricity Corporation is a leading global provider of Internet of Things, M2M solutions for Supply Chain and Spend Management. Deployed by commercial, government, and military entities worldwide, Apptricity solutions provide unprecedented real-time information and business intelligence. We seek to…
Infor Supply Chain Management combines best in class solutions with industry-specific functionality, giving you the power to plan and execute your supply chain strategies faster and more profitably, from strategic and tactical planning to execution. With analytics at the core,…
WSI (Warehouse Specialists, Inc) is one of the largest privately held logistics companies in the U.S. For nearly 50 years, we have grown steadily to span a nationwide distribution network with global logistics reach. WSI delivers reliable, integrated logistics and…
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