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Big Business Must Pay Their Smaller Suppliers Faster: Navigating Australia’s Payment Times Reporting Scheme

Procurement and the Payment Times Reporting Scheme

Every year, thousands of small businesses in Australia struggle with cash flow challenges, not because they’re unprofitable, but because they’re waiting to get paid. Late payments cost small businesses more than just money – they impact jobs, growth, and innovation across our economy. For many small business owners, it’s the…
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5 Steps for Creating Your Indigenous Procurement Policy

Indigenous Procurement Policy

Engaging with Indigenous-owned enterprises is a key part of building your supplier diversity. Not only is it beneficial for your organisation, it helps an important community develop economically and gain more independence. For it to be done sustainably, you have to develop your own Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP). In this…
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Procurement Spend Analytics: A Powerful Tool in the Fight Against Modern Slavery

Procurement Spend Analytics

One of the most significant challenges for companies is identifying modern slavery risks in their supply chain. Procurement spend analytics can help by providing companies with comprehensive supply chain data that can be used to identify and address modern slavery risks. Modern Slavery Statement’s Looming Deadline… and then what? The deadline for submitting the Modern Slavery…
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The Circular Supply Chain: Out With the New, In With the Old

What are the benefits of a circular supply chain?

Sustainability isn’t a buzzword anymore; thanks to customer demands (expectations, even) and government regulations, it’s the new normal. Unfortunately, the traditional, linear supply chain, with its resource-heavy inefficiency, doesn’t lend itself to this ESG-focused world. If organisations want to capture the loyalty of the contemporary customer and stay in the…
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5 Ways Procurement Can Expand Your Business

5 Ways Procurement Can Expand Your Business

Expand or die. It may seem like a brutal ultimatum, but it holds some truth when it comes to the business world. Organisations, like the universe, cannot stay still: they expand or they contract. That’s it. If you want to keep operating, you have to keep growing. But this growth…
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What Goes Into a Value Chain Analysis?

Procurement Consultant Experts - Comprara

What is your competitive advantage? If you hesitate when asked, then take cold comfort in the fact that you’re not alone. Too many businesses haven’t performed an adequate value chain analysis, which means they can’t know precisely what value they’re generating and which areas to target for gain. If you…
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3 Green Supply Chain Management Challenges & Their Solutions

Green Supply Chain Management - Comprara

The future is bright for those organisations who adopt green supply chain management. By 2025, the global consuming class is expected to have swelled by 75 per cent since 2010. In addition, incomes are growing and people are spending a larger portion of their budget on consumer goods. If companies…
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Commercially-Savvy Reasons Behind Supply Chain Diversity

What’s the ROI of your supply chain diversity programs?

What’s the ROI of your supply chain diversity programs? If you’re struggling to come up with a number for this, you’re not alone. A poll taken as part of Supplier Diversity Discussions asked companies what the primary reason was for having a supplier diversity program. The most common reason by…
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How to Implement Proper Vendor Risk Management

What is vendor risk management?

For the vast majority of organisations, key strategic imperatives involve the use of third party suppliers. To achieve processing efficiency and cost savings, among other objectives, there’s simply no other way. But, as much as sourcing and offshoring initiatives are beneficial, they’re not without their risks. And as supply chains…
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5 Steps for a Robust Contingency Plan

Contingency plan

The modern supply chain is a beast, operating on a ‘just-in-time’ basis at a large scale. This fast and loose style works well when things are going smoothly and predictably, but when disaster strikes – like a pandemic – the vulnerabilities can no longer be ignored. The best way to…
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