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Stop Drowning in Data: A Strategic Sourcing Web Series - Beyond Simply Treading Water: Why Procurement Data Quality Matters

Overview This webcast describes pressing challenges and best practices in strategic sourcing; five keys to transforming the procurement organization from transactional to strategic; the strategic sourcing continuum and how to determine the organization's spot on it; and steps the organization can take right now to become strategic.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	SAS Institute
Live Date	31st August 2007 01:00 UTC
Format	Webcast
Topics	Data Quality, Procurement - Purchasing, Best Practices

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