PROCUREMENT REQUISITIONS vol.2: Traditional vs. digitized procurement requisitions From the discovery of a business need for a good, service, or work which is the reason for making a purchase requisition, to the delivery of goods or the provision of work or service, there are a number of tasks that must be performed before the [...]
PROCUREMENT REQUISITION vol.1 The procurement process is not initiated by procurement! The procurement process begins when the need for goods, services, and works outside the company arises within the business organization. Employees officially notify their company and procurement through procurement requisitions, that they need products or services on behalf of the company. Procurement requisitions [...]
Open supplier databases are the near future Developments in the supply chain suggest that procurement urgently needs to take new steps and devise a new strategy towards suppliers with an emphasis on the supply chain. This is especially important for companies that have applied the principle of consolidation of suppliers, ie reducing the number [...]
Procurement 2021: Be prepared and expect the unexpected! Trends announced for 2020 fell through as early as the end of January. Burning political and customs wars as well as common procurement issues have been replaced by the crisis caused by the COVID 19 virus epidemic. No one could have predicted that a small, only [...]
Negotiate successfully with your management! The first contact with us in 95 percent of cases was initiated by procurement professionals because they see Ensolva as a solution to their problems. Still, a crucial step in the digital transformation of procurement is getting support at a high management level, and that’s where things often get [...]
How to ensure compliance with regulations and default procurement procedures? A simple solution is Scenario Manager. Ensolva Scenario Manager is a specialized workflow for the procurement sector, that monitors the course of activities of each project in procurement! The advantage is that the business organization is not forced to change its workflow, because the [...]
Jakov Ivišić, Croatia Insurance Procurement is no longer an operational function, now it also affects the success of the company! "It was inevitable to move from the operational level of procurement to the strategic one. Procurement is increasingly involved in planning and control, benchmarking, analysis and management of the supplier network, said Jakov Ivišić, [...]
Dutch reverse auction Compared to other types of reverse auctions, we come across slightly useful content about the Dutch reverse auction. The reason for this can be found in the fact that this type of online auctions is used infrequently by procurement professionals. It can bring great results for some specific procurement items in [...]
Japanese reverse auction I love the Japanese auction! This auction type often brings excellent results. I always remember one that lasted half a day – we were convinced that the supplier was dumping the price and that something was wrong and each new time extension made us more nervous. However, the truth was… Case [...]
English reverse auction In this auction type, the initial price gets lower during the auction, from the starting (highest) point to the final (lowest) point based on bids entered by participants. The negotiation process is not conducted face to face – suppliers compete against each other digitally to get the job. They enter their [...]
