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The Future of Procurement and Sourcing: The Effects of Artificial Intelligence in the Industry

SIG Speaks

SIG University Certified Sourcing Professional (CSP) program graduate Lauren Redden shares an excellent essay on the power of AI to transform the smart sourcing industry, in balance with the potential risks that companies must evaluate in employing more intelligent automation into their processes.

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How Strategic Procurement Can Give You a Competitive Advantage

Planergy Software

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. How Strategic Procurement Can Give You a Competitive Advantage. Procurement Strategic Sourcing. No longer can strategic sourcing be just in time and just in case. Download Free Copy. Written by.

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Supplier Consolidation: What It Is, Benefits, and Risks

Planergy Software

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Best Practices & Tips Strategic Sourcing Supplier Relationship Management. Visit our Procurement Solutions page to see how PLANERGY can digitize and automate your procurement processes saving you time and money.

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Tail Spend Analysis: What Is It, How To Perform It, and the Benefits

Planergy Software

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. How To Automate Tail Spend Analysis Tail spend analysis can be a time-consuming and labor-intensive process. To make it easier, companies can leverage technology to automate the process of spend analysis.

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Services Procurement: What Is It and How To Manage It

Planergy Software

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. In this article, we will discuss services procurement, how it works, and how to manage it best. You’ll also be subscribed to our email newsletter and notified about new articles or if have something interesting to share.

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Procurement Methods: How To Source and Evaluate The Best Suppliers To Work With

Planergy Software

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Spend analytics can be used to better inform procurement decisions and enable better strategic sourcing. Many readers tell us they would have paid consultants for the advice in these articles.

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Catalog Management in Procurement: What Is It, Types of Catalogs, Challenges and Best Practices To Manage Them

Planergy Software

Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficiently by automating purchasing and invoice processing. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. With an adequate PIM, you can automate the process. What's Planergy? Download PDF What’s your goal today?