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Key Elements of a Purchase Order
Key Elements of a Purchase Order
Ensure you send professional purchase orders with complete information to your suppliers when accepting their offers or awarding them contracts.
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Top 4 Procure-To-Pay Solutions For Your Business
Top 4 Procure-To-Pay Solutions For Your Business
A comparison of the best 4 procure-to-pay solutions in the market and elements to consider when choosing a procure-to-pay software for your business.
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Key Elements of a Purchase Contract
Key Elements of a Purchase Contract
Ensure you create comprehensive and well-structured contracts to send to your suppliers when ordering complex goods or services.
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The Ultimate Guide To Creating A Procurement Strategy For Your Business
The Ultimate Guide To Creating A Procurement Strategy For Your Business
What is a procurement strategy? Here’s a guide on how to create an effective procurement strategy in 9 steps.
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What is Agile Procurement and Why You Need It?
What is Agile Procurement and Why You Need It?
While traditional procurement processes have strong merits, agile procurement is increasingly becoming the most effective procurement method globally. This guide explains agile procurement in detail and how you can successfully implement it at your organization.
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Top 8 Best Practices For Supplier Relationship Management
Top 8 Best Practices For Supplier Relationship Management
Effectively managing supplier relationships is key to ensuring high operational efficiency and profitability of a business. This guide will help you better understand the various steps and processes involved in building strong supplier relationship management.
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The Basics of a Request for Proposal: Understanding the Structure and Key Elements of an RFP
The Basics of a Request for Proposal: Understanding the Structure and Key Elements of an RFP
A request for proposal is a document used to gather bids for complex services. Learn more about the structure and key elements of RFPs.
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How to Conduct a Successful Procurement Audit?
How to Conduct a Successful Procurement Audit?
A comprehensive guide to understanding procurement audits and their importance, and the steps involved in conducting a detailed procurement audit.
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A Complete Guide to Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
A Complete Guide to Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
Everything you need to know about strategic sourcing and procurement, how strategic sourcing and procurement works, and why each is important.
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A Comprehensive Look At The Procure-To-Pay Best Practices
A Comprehensive Look At The Procure-To-Pay Best Practices
Everything you need to know about the procure-to-pay process and how to improve it with the right procure-to-pay best practices.
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The Ultimate Guide To Understanding Source-To-Pay vs Procure-To-Pay
The Ultimate Guide To Understanding Source-To-Pay vs Procure-To-Pay
Looking at implementing a procurement system into your business? Here’s a comprehensive guide to understanding source-to-pay vs procure-to-pay to get you started.
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8 Ways Your Business Can Benefit from E-Procurement
8 Ways Your Business Can Benefit from E-Procurement
One of the problems of procurement is the system of management. The main issue is with the current way of ordering supplies and equipment.
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Top 5 Tips for Improving Procurement Efficiency in 2022
Top 5 Tips for Improving Procurement Efficiency in 2022
The most common procurement challenge businesses face today is manual data entry - a long, labor-intensive process vulnerable to human errors. In 2019, half of the procurement functions ran on legacy tools such as Excel.
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Factors To Consider When Choosing Suppliers And Vendors For Your Business
Factors To Consider When Choosing Suppliers And Vendors For Your Business
As a business begins to take shape, owners need to make all sorts of important decisions such as where to source products or materials from while achieving the best value for their money.
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Understanding Purchase Orders, Service Orders, Contracts, and Master Agreements
Understanding Purchase Orders, Service Orders, Contracts, and Master Agreements
When selecting an offer or proposal from a supplier, your organization will need to award a contract to a supplier by formally notifying them of your intent to accept their offer and complete the purchase.
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Key Pre-Requisites To Implementing a Procurement Management Solution
Key Pre-Requisites To Implementing a Procurement Management Solution
When you first adopt a procurement management solution, or digitize any part of your procurement and purchase process, you are effectively undertaking a digital transformation. As such, when implementing a procurement solution, you need to view the implementation and deployment process as a digital transformation, and not simply a software deployment.
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Guiding Principles To Follow When Implementing an E-Procurement Solution
Guiding Principles To Follow When Implementing an E-Procurement Solution
The transition to a digital procurement process is a challenging process requiring substantial effort and dedication on the part of your organization and your team members. In addition to managing the configuration of your software, you need to undertake a change management effort to ensure buy-in of your users and team members.
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5 Stages of Implementing an E-Procurement Software
5 Stages of Implementing an E-Procurement Software
Implementing an e-procurement software can be challenging, but with the 5 stages described in this blog post, you can make the process much quicker and simpler.
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Direct vs Indirect Spend: What's the Difference and Why Does It Matter?
Direct vs Indirect Spend: What's the Difference and Why Does It Matter?
Organizational spend is often categorized into two types: direct spend and indirect spend. Read on ahead to learn how each affects your business.
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Spot Procurement vs Strategic Procurement
Spot Procurement vs Strategic Procurement
Understanding the differences between spot procurement and strategic procurement is essential for businesses that want to manage their spend more effectively.
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How Implementing Proqura Can Save Your Time and Reduce Costs?
How Implementing Proqura Can Save Your Time and Reduce Costs?
The costs associated with running and managing procurement processes are often ignored or underestimated. Leveraging e-procurement can dramatically cut costs and add to bottom line.
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What's the difference between an RFI, RFP and RFQ?
What's the difference between an RFI, RFP and RFQ?
Leveraging different requisition formats tailored to your procurement needs can enable you and your suppliers to communicate clearly and collaborate effectively and efficiently.
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Why an intuitive, easy-to-use interface is essential for any e-procurement solution?
Why an intuitive, easy-to-use interface is essential for any e-procurement solution?
The aim of any business software is to increase your productivity. Software needs to be intuitive to enable users to truly benefit. Proqura is self-service with a minimal learning curve.
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Everything in One Place: What Does a Complete Procure-to-Pay Process Involve?
Everything in One Place: What Does a Complete Procure-to-Pay Process Involve?
Procurement management modules in ERP systems continue to require a lot of manual data entry, offline work, and email communication. Proqura's complete Procure-to-Pay system brings the entire process online, all in one place.
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What Key Steps Does a Typical Procurement Process Involve?
What Key Steps Does a Typical Procurement Process Involve?
Understanding the elements of a complete procurement process can help you make your procurement process more systematic and organized.
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Why e-procurement - and not an ERP - is the solution to your procurement problems?
Why e-procurement - and not an ERP - is the solution to your procurement problems?
All in one ERP systems have their benefits. But with integrations becoming more standardized and easier, a solution that is focused specifically on procurement is more advantageous.
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What is a Purchase Order and What Are The Benefits Of Digitalizing It?
What is a Purchase Order and What Are The Benefits Of Digitalizing It?
A purchase order can be defined as a buyer's formal intimation of their intent to purchase goods or services from a supplier. Learn more about purchase orders and why you should digitize them in this blog post.
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