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Dimension Data : Green Procurement

Overcoming the Challenges of Green Procurement Through eProcurement, calls out nine eProcurement best practices and demonstrates how they will help you reduce environmental waste and implement and manage your Green purchasing programme. This eBook also provides you with steps your organisation take to leverage these same best practices, even if you don’t already have an eProcurement system in place. Lastly, you will read about a list of factors to consider when selecting preferred suppliers to ensure you are capitalising on the benefits of eProcurement, as they pertain to your Green procurement initiatives.

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What Makes Strategic Sourcing Strategic?

There appears to be a common misconception about Strategic Sourcing. Like many business buzzwords, the term strategic sourcing is overused. It's quite likely that most organizations, espousing their traditional procurement practices, have simply renamed the search for price savings as a "strategic " activity; a old wolf re-clothed in lambskin, as it were. It's hard to believe that an approach to procurement can be considered sexy, but I suspect that there's something of that charm for managements to declare its strategic sourcing program in a "me too" kind of way. Is that possibly a strategy of its own?

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