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To objectively assess, manage, and compare procurement performance, organizations need a standard framework for classifying and defining processes. APQC’s Process…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Preferred Provider Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Preferred Provider sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Performance-Based/Managed Services Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Performance-based/Managed Services sourcing business model, here is…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Vested Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Vested sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use checklist to…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Shared Services Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Shared Services sourcing business model, here is an easy-to-use…
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Sourcing Considerations Checklist: Equity Partnership Model
Next-generation supplier relationship management embraces a continuum of sourcing business models. For the Equity Partnership business model, here is an easy-to-use checklist…
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Research has shown that many, if not most, of the world's most-used sourcing strategies are incomplete for modern procurement challenges. In this article, Kate Vitasek and…
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By fostering fruitful supplier relationships and designing strategically focused outcomes, sourcing and procurement professionals now play a central role in addressing supply…
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This article’s magic number is 10: Specifically, the 10 skills deemed most important by participants in APQC’s Future Skillsets of Procurement Professionals research. The…
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This article is a summary of an APQC conversation in August 2019 with supplier relationship experts Kate Vitasek, Bonnie Keith, and Emmanuel Cambresy. The panel discussion…