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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

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What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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Why Vendor Management Systems Are Essential In Finance?

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Traditional financial institutions still rely on manual tracking when it comes to the vendor management component of their workflow. They make use of spreadsheets, email, and shared files on online drives instead of a dedicated vendor management platform.

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Candex lands $45M infusion to grow its procurement management business

TechCrunch

Candex, a startup that aims to simplify procurement — specifically vendor management and payment processes — for businesses, today announced that it raised $45 million in a Series B investment led by Goldman Sachs with participation from WiL (World Innovation Lab), Altos, NFX, Craft, JP Morgan, American Express and Edenred.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We APIs, Application Integration, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, SaaS, Vendor Management

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SaaS startup Stimulus closes oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round

TechCrunch

Stanard established the company after her own experiences as a buyer and vendor manager. “You have exposure from household names to smaller businesses run by underrepresented founders,” Stanard told TechCrunch. It’s going from discovery to matching in real time.”.

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Software vendors offer AI sales boost for retail at NRF show

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Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Strategy, Microsoft, Predictive Analytics, Retail Industry, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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