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4 strategic sourcing use cases to strengthen your supply chain

IBM Services

For sourcing teams, that means pivoting their mindset around selecting suppliers from a tactical, lowest-cost-above-all approach to a strategic one. Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals.

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Days Inventory Outstanding: What Is It and How to Calculate It

Planergy Software

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. Better Overall Inventory Management Knowing your DIO can help you manage your inventory flow more efficiently. What's Planergy?

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Days Sales Outstanding: What Is It and How To Calculate It

Planergy Software

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. That’s why many CFOs and accounting managers use Days Sales Outstanding to determine how quickly their customers pay their invoices.

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

Planergy Software

Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. For example, does it connect to your ERP, e-commerce platform, and inventory management system? What's Planergy?

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How To Create Savings With Better Spend Management In Procurement

Planergy Software

How strategic sourcing, cost management, and cost avoidance strategies can be applied to indirect spend. How To Create Savings With Better Spend Management In Procurement. All organizations, regardless of their size and type, should develop a spend management process. Download Free Copy.

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CFO Challenges and Priorities in 2021 And Beyond

Planergy Software

Accounts payable (AP) automation eliminates the need for manual data entry, boosts the speed and accuracy of high-volume, otherwise tedious processes, and eliminates human error while simultaneously freeing staff to apply their valuable skill sets to more important tasks no computer can handle (at least, not yet).

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11 Cost Reduction Strategies in Procurement

Obobo

Finally, long-term strategies may include the development of partnerships with suppliers and even the implementation of strategic sourcing. Overall, these 11 cost reduction strategies in procurement demonstrate that companies can significantly reduce costs and maintain profitability with the right procurement management practices.