Procurement professionals know all about the pressure to cut costs. Could their paychecks someday see the profits of their successes?
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May2014
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May2014
‘Indirect spend’ is expenditure not immediately related to production, as opposed to ‘direct spend’ which covers materials directly involved in product development.
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May2014
There’s never been a better time to convert to e-procurement. Having steadily gained momentum over the last twenty years, its heyday is dawning.
07
May2014
‘Resilient Supply Chains’ is the title of this year’s SAPICS Conference and Exhibition, to be held at South Africa’s Sun City resort this June.
01
May2014
Why use video sourcing? Explore the numerous ways that video can help with online procurement using SourceDogg.
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Apr2014
As highlighted this week in an RTÉ News article on the awarding of Irish public sector contracts, procurement can play a powerful role in supporting the domestic economy.
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Mar2014
A few snaps of a very successful couple of days for SourceDogg partner ADR Australia at the ProcureTECH conference in Sydney on 26 and 27 March.
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Mar2014
The value-adding potential of procurement is now widely recognised. It was not always so. In previous times procurement occupied a peripheral position within most organisations. It was viewed in operational or tactical terms, but rarely as a strategic, value-adding activity.
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Mar2014
Finding out what the market can provide is essential to the role of a procurer. Indeed, the term ‘reverse marketing’ has been used to capture the role of procurers in proactively identifying who can offer them what in the marketplace.
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Mar2014
It has long been recognised that there are three important levers to increase procurement capability – people, process and technology. While much activity has been focused on the first two components, Procurement and Supply will host the first-ever two-day event focused on procurement technology.