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ProcureAbility Whitepapers

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Thriving in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption Purchasing strategies for utilities procurement leaders

The supply chain disruptions that began with the global COVID-19 pandemic have only been worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, demand for durable goods is still high and unemployment hovers near all-time lows.

Thriving in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption Purchasing strategies for utilities procurement leaders

Thriving in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption Purchasing strategies for utilities procurement leaders

The supply chain disruptions that began with the global COVID-19 pandemic have only been worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, demand for durable goods is still high and unemployment hovers near all-time lows.

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Managing Spend in Inflationary Times: 3 Recommendations for Procurement Success

Inflation can be managed by developing the right internal processes and establishing the right partnerships. In this whitepaper, ProcureAbility presents three key strategies which can help procurement organizations weather these volatile market conditions and ensure future success.

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Managing Spend in Inflationary Times: 3 Recommendations for Procurement Success

Inflation can be managed by developing the right internal processes and establishing the right partnerships. In this whitepaper, ProcureAbility presents three key strategies which can help procurement organizations weather these volatile market conditions and ensure future success.

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Strategies to Manage Commercial Print Market Drivers

With COVID-19 impacting corporate profits, companies are increasingly focused on reducing costs and many marketing organizations are assessing whether commercial print is still a viable element of their strategy.

Strategies to Manage Commercial Print Market Drivers

Strategies to Manage Commercial Print Market Drivers

With COVID-19 impacting corporate profits, companies are increasingly focused on reducing costs and many marketing organizations are assessing whether commercial print is still a viable element of their strategy.

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Enhancing 2021 Procurement Strategies by Leveraging the “New Normal”

As supply & demand for services and materials continually shifts, Procurement increasingly prioritizes flexibility, resilience & creativity.

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Enhancing 2021 Procurement Strategies by Leveraging the “New Normal”

As supply & demand for services and materials continually shifts, Procurement increasingly prioritizes flexibility, resilience & creativity.

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Spend Analytics Basics: Analyze Your Spend in 4 Steps

Whitepaper: This 4-step process will lead you to quick, insightful spend analysis results. We lay how to analyze spend and give direction for implementing more advanced techniques.

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Spend Analytics Basics: Analyze Your Spend in 4 Steps

Whitepaper: This 4-step process will lead you to quick, insightful spend analysis results. We lay how to analyze spend and give direction for implementing more advanced techniques.

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The CPO’s Guide to Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis – A ProcureAbility Whitepaper

This whitepaper covers how CPOs will need to fundamentally reshape their agendas to succeed in the newly constrained world.

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The CPO’s Guide to Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis – A ProcureAbility Whitepaper

This whitepaper covers how CPOs will need to fundamentally reshape their agendas to succeed in the newly constrained world.

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Spend Analytics – Enabling the Journey to Procurement Category Management

This whitepaper discusses: The importance of spend analytics to a category management program and how your company can evolve along the Spend Analytics Maturity continuum.

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Spend Analytics – Enabling the Journey to Procurement Category Management

This whitepaper discusses: The importance of spend analytics to a category management program and how your company can evolve along the Spend Analytics Maturity continuum.

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DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED: Procurement’s Critical Choice

This paper covers procurement disruption on 2 fronts: advancing technology & the macro environment, then considers how procurement must adjust.

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DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED: Procurement’s Critical Choice

This paper covers procurement disruption on 2 fronts: advancing technology & the macro environment, then considers how procurement must adjust.

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Creating Your Procurement Strategy: Roadmap to Results

We will discuss why having a formal strategic plan is critical to procurement’s capacity for delivering results as well as how to develop a plan that will make those results a sustainable reality.

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Creating Your Procurement Strategy: Roadmap to Results

We will discuss why having a formal strategic plan is critical to procurement’s capacity for delivering results as well as how to develop a plan that will make those results a sustainable reality.

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Making the Journey From Tactical to Strategic Procurement

Relationships with internal stakeholders can be stuck in the perceptions of the past: How to help internal stakeholders to regard procurement as a true partner.

Making the Journey from Tactical to Stragetic Procurement

Making the Journey From Tactical to Strategic Procurement

Relationships with internal stakeholders can be stuck in the perceptions of the past: How to help internal stakeholders to regard procurement as a true partner.

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Drive Savings & Build a World-Class Procurement Organization with a Strategic Assessment

Assessments provide a clear vision and roadmap to a desired outcome, whether that outcome is process improvement, savings, or procurement transformation. A strategic assessment can include three main prongs, each as important as the last depending on the desired outcome.

Drive Savings and Build a World Class Procurement Organization with a Strategic Assessment

Drive Savings & Build a World-Class Procurement Organization with a Strategic Assessment

Assessments provide a clear vision and roadmap to a desired outcome, whether that outcome is process improvement, savings, or procurement transformation. A strategic assessment can include three main prongs, each as important as the last depending on the desired outcome.

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Proactive Procurement Talent & Knowledge Management Whitepaper

Today’s rapidly changing workforce makes proactive talent and knowledge management a must for leading procurement organizations.

Proactive Talent and Knowledge Management

Proactive Procurement Talent & Knowledge Management Whitepaper

Today’s rapidly changing workforce makes proactive talent and knowledge management a must for leading procurement organizations.

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Insights from ProcureAbility’s Q1 2017 Corporate Services Index

This whitepaper contains key insights from ProcureAbility’s most recent Corporate Services Index (CSI).

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Insights from ProcureAbility’s Q1 2017 Corporate Services Index

This whitepaper contains key insights from ProcureAbility’s most recent Corporate Services Index (CSI).

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Creating an Effective Procurement Strategy

From our experience, procurement organizations that have definitive strategies with action plans and measureable goals have much higher success rates than those that do not.

Creating an Effective Procurement Strategy

Creating an Effective Procurement Strategy

From our experience, procurement organizations that have definitive strategies with action plans and measureable goals have much higher success rates than those that do not.

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Best Practices in Utility Procurement 2020

The utility industry is in the midst of a sea-change. In years past, excellence in procurement was seen as a mere feather in a corporation’s cap. Increasing customer demands together with added cost and regulatory pressures, however, have driven this principle into the forefront of business strategy.

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Best Practices in Utility Procurement 2020

The utility industry is in the midst of a sea-change. In years past, excellence in procurement was seen as a mere feather in a corporation’s cap. Increasing customer demands together with added cost and regulatory pressures, however, have driven this principle into the forefront of business strategy.

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The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part II

The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part II Since procurement now has a greater impact on corporate strategy, the demand for enterprise procurement technology has reached new heights.

The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part II

The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part II

The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part II Since procurement now has a greater impact on corporate strategy, the demand for enterprise procurement technology has reached new heights.

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The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part I

Part I of this two-part series starts with “The Procurement Technology Landscape”—a look into the impact of the “cloud” and other changes in the market.

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The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part I

Part I of this two-part series starts with “The Procurement Technology Landscape”—a look into the impact of the “cloud” and other changes in the market.

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Building a Talent and Knowledge Management Program: The New Imperative

Major changes in the procurement talent landscape have created a need for formalized talent and knowledge-management programs. Organizations must assess what evolving skills are needed and then attract and retain top talent by understanding their motivators.

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Building a Talent and Knowledge Management Program: The New Imperative

Major changes in the procurement talent landscape have created a need for formalized talent and knowledge-management programs. Organizations must assess what evolving skills are needed and then attract and retain top talent by understanding their motivators.

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Global Sourcing for Electric and Gas Utilities

More than ever before, Global 1000 organizations rely on procurement to provide incremental sources of value—and electric and gas utilities are no different.

Global Sourcing for Electric and Gas Utilities

Global Sourcing for Electric and Gas Utilities

More than ever before, Global 1000 organizations rely on procurement to provide incremental sources of value—and electric and gas utilities are no different.

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5 Steps to Creating a Successful Procurement Strategy

A procurement strategy is one of the most important tools that a procurement organization has to maximize its value contribution to the company. This strategy serves as a compass to guide the organization and should be updated at least annually to ensure ongoing alignment with the overall corporate strategy.

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5 Steps to Creating a Successful Procurement Strategy

A procurement strategy is one of the most important tools that a procurement organization has to maximize its value contribution to the company. This strategy serves as a compass to guide the organization and should be updated at least annually to ensure ongoing alignment with the overall corporate strategy.

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Five Mistakes That Can Sabotage a Successful Procurement Transformation

This whitepaper was created to help ensure success of your organization’s endeavors in 2012. Imagine this as your New Year’s resolution: “This year, I plan to create a sustainable, world-class procurement organization that can drive additional value into the future.”

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Five Mistakes That Can Sabotage a Successful Procurement Transformation

This whitepaper was created to help ensure success of your organization’s endeavors in 2012. Imagine this as your New Year’s resolution: “This year, I plan to create a sustainable, world-class procurement organization that can drive additional value into the future.”

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Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part III

Achieving sustainability requires planning your blueprint’s rollout, hiring the right staff and developing talent, instituting resources like Centers of Excellence, selecting and rolling out technology that meets your business needs, and tracking performance and results for organizational communication and continuous improvement.

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part III

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part III

Achieving sustainability requires planning your blueprint’s rollout, hiring the right staff and developing talent, instituting resources like Centers of Excellence, selecting and rolling out technology that meets your business needs, and tracking performance and results for organizational communication and continuous improvement.

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Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part II

ProcureAbility’s Fast Track Procurement Transformation Process accelerates Procurement Transformation utilizing a flexible and innovative construct that focuses and prioritizes collaborative efforts.

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part II

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part II

ProcureAbility’s Fast Track Procurement Transformation Process accelerates Procurement Transformation utilizing a flexible and innovative construct that focuses and prioritizes collaborative efforts.

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Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part I

This whitepaper (Part I of a three-part series) focuses on preparing for Procurement Transformation and includes trends, critical components, a fast track process, and planning considerations. It demonstrates how you can put transformation on a fast track with focused, prioritized efforts around process, organization, and technology.

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part I

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part I

This whitepaper (Part I of a three-part series) focuses on preparing for Procurement Transformation and includes trends, critical components, a fast track process, and planning considerations. It demonstrates how you can put transformation on a fast track with focused, prioritized efforts around process, organization, and technology.

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The Art of Negotiation: Best Practices for Success

To remain competitive in today’s environment, companies must take an innovative, aggressive approach to contract renegotiation and re-sourcing. This whitepaper closely examines techniques that are key to In-Flight Negotiations. Specifically, we address critical components of successful negotiations.

The Art of Negotiation: Best Practices for Success

The Art of Negotiation: Best Practices for Success

To remain competitive in today’s environment, companies must take an innovative, aggressive approach to contract renegotiation and re-sourcing. This whitepaper closely examines techniques that are key to In-Flight Negotiations. Specifically, we address critical components of successful negotiations.

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Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part III

Sourcing in today’s environment requires a quick response to corporate savings requirements. This whitepaper, the third in a series, focuses on how ProcureAbility uses in-depth supply market intelligence to help achieve costs savings quickly.

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Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part III

Sourcing in today’s environment requires a quick response to corporate savings requirements. This whitepaper, the third in a series, focuses on how ProcureAbility uses in-depth supply market intelligence to help achieve costs savings quickly.

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Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part II

This whitepaper, the second in a series, focuses on how ProcureAbility uses in-depth supply market intelligence to help achieve costs savings quickly.

Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part II

Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part II

This whitepaper, the second in a series, focuses on how ProcureAbility uses in-depth supply market intelligence to help achieve costs savings quickly.

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Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part I

Now is the time to re-source and renegotiate contracts that contain outdated pricing structures. This whitepaper, the first in a series, focuses on how ProcureAbility uses in-depth supply market intelligence to help achieve costs savings quickly. ProcureAbility uses five tangible strategies to accelerate savings in weeks rather than months.

Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part I

Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part I

Now is the time to re-source and renegotiate contracts that contain outdated pricing structures. This whitepaper, the first in a series, focuses on how ProcureAbility uses in-depth supply market intelligence to help achieve costs savings quickly. ProcureAbility uses five tangible strategies to accelerate savings in weeks rather than months.

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