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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. And from that group, 71% would pay a premium for it.

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What are the Benefits of a Strategic Sourcing Software?

Obobo

What are the Benefits of a Strategic Sourcing Software? Strategic sourcing is a process that involves evaluating and negotiating with suppliers to ensure the best price, quality, and delivery of goods. What is Strategic Sourcing Software? There are many benefits of using strategic sourcing software.

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3 Strategic Sourcing Steps and How Nearshoring to Mexico Plays a Part

Ivemsa

Sourcing quality suppliers is essential to a production’s efficiency and overall success. The common urge is to select the cheapest price for material procurement, though this could eventually cost more due to a lack of quality. Develop a Sourcing Strategy. The other common sourcing strategy is a request for proposal (RFP).

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Change Management/Sourcing Change Management

SIG Speaks

SIG University Certified Sourcing Professional (CSP) program graduate Andrew Beck shares the difficulties associated with change management in sourcing and how it can help improve inefficiencies. To gain efficiencies, reduce costs and ensure long-term viability, the company executives wanted to consolidate the company as one.

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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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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. Tail spend analysis helps companies identify areas of spend that are falling through the cracks, allowing them to make more informed decisions and achieve greater savings.

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Maximizing the Potential for Cost-Savings and Risk

SIG Speaks

SIG University Certified Sourcing Professional (CSP) program graduate Heather Frazer discusses how TCO is a great tool that will help capture the entire potential for cost savings and risk and how it is increasingly important for procurement organizations to secure reliable data.