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Chain reactions: building value in procurement through digitalization

C-level execs are digitalizing procurement to meet the challenges of disrupted supply chains, rising costs, and growing uncertainty. Learn more in this Economist Impact report, including long-term sustainability strategies.

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Read IDC's Market Shares report

In their latest report on worldwide procurement applications software market shares, IDC estimates that the procurement software market grew 9.1% to $7.1 billion in 2020. Learn about SAP’s leadership in this space, as well as significant developments that are affecting this market.

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Etosha Thurman, Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer, Intelligent Spend and Business Network, SAP

Achieve Resiliency in Times of Disruption

Watch this SAP Sapphire 2022 keynote presentation to learn how comprehensive spend management can provide the organizational and process visibility you need to not only overcome the challenges of the past two years, but also plan for the future.

You’ll hear how businesses need to be able to react, retool, and become resilient to stay competitive during these unprecedented times. How companies must reflect and rethink how they run their business to be prepared for whatever challenge or disruption comes next.

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Top 10 Issues Facing Procurement Leaders in 2022 and How to Solve Them

Explore the top ten issues facing you as a procurement leader this year, including mitigating supplier risk, reducing spend, and driving corporate sustainability.

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Make the Case for Change

If the procurement gaps uncovered during the pandemic haven’t inspired investment in digitizing procurement, what will? To help you make a case for change, we offer five key questions that every CPO should answer with their teams.

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Direct Materials Collaboration: Why it's vital today

Learn best practices from supply chain leaders across various industries who have delivered better business outcomes with best-run supply chain networks and critical collaboration.

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Comprehensive Supplier Collaboration Reconnects Globally Distributed Supply Chains

Get this IDC Technology Spotlight for their insights on trends in external manufacturing and other outsourced supply chain functions and how supply chain visibility enables greater resiliency.

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The Procurement Agenda: 2022 Key Issues

In The Hackett Group’s many years of surveying procurement leaders about their top issues for the year ahead, spend reduction is frequently at the top of the list. But in 2022, supplier risk is a more pressing concern.

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Supplier Collaboration and Strategic Sourcing Inform Next Generation Product Design

How important is the new product development and introduction (NPDI) process at your business? In this new paper, IDC reveals why effective and efficient collaboration tools are more important to the process than ever.

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