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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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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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What Are The Benefits Of Using Strategic Sourcing For Businesses In Procurement?

Obobo

What Are The Benefits Of Using Strategic Sourcing For Businesses In Procurement? In today’s competitive market, businesses are constantly striving to gain a competitive edge over their rivals. While many companies focus on marketing and sales strategies, one critical area that is often overlooked is procurement.

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Thoughts on Crowd Sourcing

SIG Speaks

SIG University Certified Sourcing Professional (CSP) program graduate Noah Wilson discusses how crowdsourcing could be the innovation that businesses need to succeed in a rapidly changing environnment. In an industry that is constantly shrinking, we need to use innovations to create economies of scale and cut costs where possible.

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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. How to report and analyze indirect spend to identify savings opportunities. Download Free Copy.

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How to build a successful product development strategy

IBM Services

A finely tuned product development strategy is a holistic, cross-collaborative endeavor with the capacity to help any organization weather unforeseen events or market changes. With new markets and functionalities appearing almost overnight, product development can’t be a blind process.