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What you need to know about Strategic Sourcing

Sourcing Captain

In today’s hugely competitive global markets, everyone strives to reduce their sourcing costs while still maintaining the quality. Effective sourcing of goods from suppliers is more important today than it was ever before. For this reason, strategic sourcing has become central to every organization’s procurement policy.

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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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Why you need a Project Manager for Effective Strategic Sourcing?

Sourcing Captain

As we have discussed in our previous blogs, strategic sourcing is the perfect and innovative way to reduce costs, achieve a faster time to market and improve the quality of the final product. Moreover, it has been shown that 88 percent of organizations consider strategic sourcing as critical or major.

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

Ivemsa

Implementing strategic sourcing is a way to add long-term value and continually optimize manufacturing processes. Too often manufacturers jump into supplier negotiations before even considering exactly what they need and how much they can afford to spend. Develop a Sourcing Strategy. Evaluate Project Needs.

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Strategic Sourcing is an enormous and untapped opportunity for most firms

Sourcing Advisors Group

. … there are some benefits to be gained in procurement operations … sometimes there is value in contract management and SRM … however, most of value will come from Sourcing. Value from procurement almost 100% comes from Sourcing. Strategic Sourcing is an untapped opportunity for most firms.

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5 Advantages of Overseas Manufacturing

SourcX

More and more companies are realizing the draw of manufacturing overseas, often in low cost countries. Keeping costs down throughout the manufacturing process allows them to increase profit margins, and many low cost countries offer a wide selection of experienced potential suppliers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

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How to Navigate the Supply Chain Mess

Perficient Digital Transformation

Companies should know where products are in the supply chain, whether it’s raw materials, suppliers, manufacturing, distribution, or retailers. This means that there should be support and communication from various business functions rather than having a “laissez-faire” approach to the manufacturing process. Cycle time reduction.