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Because of the sheer volume and complexity of spend data within an enterprise, SDM must be enabled through use of business applications and services that automate labor-intensive classification, enhancement, and analysis activities and that can organize spend data at a detailed, attribute level - all on a repeatable basis.

Tim Minahan
Aberdeen Group
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Spend Data Management
Supplier Relationship Mgmt
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eSourcing
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The Path to Procurement Excellence

What sets mature, highly successful strategic sourcing organizations apart? Which processes matter most for strategic sourcing and procurement? How important is process maturity? How can procurement continuously make positive contributions to corporate performance? This eBOOK, with support from a new joint study by Purchasing magazine and ZYCUS, sets out to answer these questions.

It focuses in detail on the practices and processes that, when embedded, appear to differentiate high performance organizations. The study tested 65 specific practices and processes often associated with strategic-sourcing maturity and success. It also identifies practices that, while still emergent in high performance procurement groups, are consistently associated with rising performance levels over time.

There is something here for everybody. Learn how some of the most advanced strategic sourcing and procurement management organizations are preparing to meet the challenges of the coming decade...

The Path to Procurement Excellence (5.42 MB)

UNSPSC for Better Spend Analysis

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UNSPSC for better Spend Analysis (1.6 MB)
Get the answers to all queries you have about implementing UNSPSC across your enterprise.

Download chapters by topics:
Chapter1 (146 KB)- Classification edge in Supply Management

Chapter2 (305KB)- What is UNSPSC

Chapter3 (344 KB)- Why UNSPSC

Chapter4 (312 KB)- Adopting UNSPSC

Chapter5 (328 KB)- UNSPSC driven Spend Analysis

Chapter6 (164 KB)- ANNEXURE: UNSPSC best practices