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2023 FOS Finalists   Related news:  The Top 10 Actions CPOs Must Take in 2021   Innovations in Digitization Dräeger - Using Smart Processes to Create Resilient Supply Chains   Dubai Municipality – “Utilitizing Digital Transformation to Facilitate and Maximize Effectiveness of RPA in Supplier Performance Evaluation"   GEP – Top Asian Retailer Transforms Procurement Operations By Deploying GEP SMART   GEP – How GEP Helped Retailer Transform Its Procure-to-Pay Operations In Stores     Innovations in Environmenta ..read more

Sorenson, a leading language services provider, offers a variety of technology solutions and tools for people with diverse communication needs. These include call captioning, sign language and video services for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, as well as language translation and interpreting services.    While traditionally focused on consumer markets, the company recognized that demand for its services was growing among enterprise customers. Large businesses, universities and government entities, for example, are increasingly focused on providing accessible and inclusive commun ..read more

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Emergency Proof Your Procurement Processes Related news:  The Top 10 Actions CPOs Must Take in 2021 In March 2020, Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC)—the largest electric cooperative in the United States, servicing more than 346,000 accounts in Central Texas—had to go from being fully in-office to fully remote virtually overnight, like many organizations across North America during the COVID-19 health crisis. Procurement has historically been one of the last organizational functions to migrate to the cloud. Fortunately, PEC was already in the midst of digitally transforming their p ..read more

Increased efficiency & visibility for procurement professionals   The Company: GEODIS is a global logistics company with over 140 locations across the United States. 40 people across the company regularly ordered food for employees, but each had a different ordering and tracking process. This led to disorganization, wasted time, and a lack of reporting. GEODIS needed a way to organize all the company’s food spend into one place.   The solution: an ezCater corporate account. All of the company’s food spend is now under one platform with a centralized ordering system, automated ..read more

It’s a White-Water World Where Procurement Can Shine     In Design Unbound Vol I, John Seely Brown coined the phrase “navigating the white water” to describe working through complexity with speed and agility. His analogy of a kayaker paddling through unknown waters works perfectly to describe organizations weathering our currently turbulent economy. As he says in his book, “Today, with the sheer number and scale of forces in play, the pace of change, and the connectedness that creates radically contingent relationships between things, a different analogy has emerged ..read more

Sorenson, a leading language services provider, offers a variety of technology solutions and tools for people with diverse communication needs. These include call captioning, sign language and video services for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, as well as language translation and interpreting services.    While traditionally focused on consumer markets, the company recognized that demand for its services was growing among enterprise customers. Large businesses, universities and government entities, for example, are increasingly focused on providing accessible and inclusive commun ..read more

The responsibilities of procurement professionals have changed considerably in recent years. But there’s one change that doesn’t get much press. It’s a not-so-subtle shift in emphasis from procuring goods to procuring services.     We’ve already seen this shift in our daily lives. For example, these days it’s not unusual to hire someone to do your grocery shopping. When your refrigerator needs replacing, you pay for delivery and installation services for the new one, and pay to have the old one carted away ..read more