Procurement

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How smart contracts will speed up production onboarding and checks

on July 8, 2021

Solutions that utilize smart contracts have the potential to speed up production onboarding and checks and offer new opportunities to reduce sourcing risk, decrease administration cost, and improve stakeholder engagement. 

In an increasingly digitised world, emerging technologies, such as blockchain, afford organisations the opportunity to drive business value by streamlining production onboarding and checks.  

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Supplier Qualification and Onboarding: definitions and flows for a successful vendor management

on May 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging procurement teams to rethink the whole Supplier Qualification and Onboarding process, with active suppliers adjusting how they work, and new suppliers bypassing the qualification process for initial onboarding to keep operation flowing. 

However, the Supplier Qualification Management (SQM) is essential to mitigate all the risks connected to the onboarding process, which can seriously affect your business. That’s why in this article we are going to define what is Supplier Qualification and why you need to implement right the qualification for initial onboarding.

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Smart procurement in the digital age: how procurement will look like in 2025

on February 22, 2021

How procurement is evolving over time and how procurement will evolve to smart procurement in the digital age?

As strategic sourcing becomes more predictive, transactional, data driven procurement is becoming more automated, and supplier relationship management is becoming more proactive. Smart procurement in the digital age need to be integrated through intelligent procurement operations that help companies reduce risk and scale to their growing needs.

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