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UK government gets vaccine procurement right — What can we learn?
February 23, 2021 | Guest Contributor
Spend Matters welcomes this post from Peter Smith, procurement expert and author. The UK government has taken a lot of flack over the past year in terms of its Covid pandemic-related procurement. However, in one spend area, the UK appears to have outperformed most countries, including the member states of the European Union. That is…
Procurement in Practice: Sustainability — Getting from the pledge to action at Bayer
February 1, 2021 | Nancy Clinton
Bayer Chief Procurement Officer Thomas Udesen joins us for this month's Procurement in Practice interview, which gives procurement professionals insights into how major players in the market handle issues that affect all procurement practitioners. Today, Thomas makes the case for why companies should see sustainability as good business, not just a buzzword to throw around.…
Getting to a global procurement function with Fujitsu at eworld 2021
January 28, 2021 | Nancy Clinton
The opening keynote at eworld March 2021 will be from Dr. Clive Rees, Vice President, International Chief Procurement Officer at Fujitsu. He will be talking about his experience of moving towards a global procurement function in “The Good, the Bad and the Global.” Clive has responsibility for all indirect spend at Fujitsu globally. In a…
2021 Procurement and Supply Chain Predictions from the market — Fairmarkit
January 8, 2021 | Nancy Clinton
Last year at the end of December 2019, we ran a series of predictions about procurement and supply chain trends for 2020 from expert tech and service providers in the market. But who could have foreseen what happened in 2020! This year, the market again provides its predictions for the next 12 months, using learnings…
Let the bots battle to their elimination. They won’t help you either! - [PRO Content]
December 14, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
Editor’s note: This Spend Matters PRO post has been unlocked to continue our exploration of how to get the most value out of your procurement technology and to provide a sample of the depth we go into in our PRO material. In our piece titled “Have You Mastered the Procurement Basics yet?” we explained how…
Public Spend Forum: Market intelligence superheroes, barriers to entry and finding PPE suppliers
December 11, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public buying everywhere. GovShop is its free-to-use global government market research tool for finding and connecting with suppliers. Here's the latest from PSF ...
Have you mastered the procurement basics yet? AI won’t save you if you haven’t!
December 4, 2020 | Michael Lamoureux
In this missive, Spend Matters analyst and futurist Michael Lamoureux argues that you must master the procurement basics before artificial intelligence can help you. He says, "We're not downplaying the usefulness of RPA, ML, or AI (it can automate and eliminate the majority of tactical work), of advanced analytics (which can identify trends, opportunities, or…
Public Spend Forum: market intelligence workshops and becoming a government contractor
December 4, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public buying everywhere. GovShop is its free-to-use […]
Key skill sets for the negotiators of the future
December 2, 2020 | Guest Contributor
In this practitioner advisory post, Jonathan O’Brien, CEO of Positive Purchasing Ltd, internationally recognised expert on negotiation and published author, explains what we need to […]
Supply chain workplace safety improvements — results by region
December 1, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Supply chain risk contractor management firm, Avetta, has examined 10 years’ worth of hundreds of thousands of safety data points from within its supply chain risk management platform of 87000 suppliers, and has produced a global report on safety incidents. It finds, using its own data as a benchmark, that overall firms using cloud-based supply…
Deutsche Telekom Services Europe – People are key to transforming digital processes
December 1, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Deutsche Telekom Services Europe (DTSE) is known as the innovation-building speedboat of the telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom Group. Like many large organizations in recent years DTSE has turned its attention to technology to help improve effectiveness, efficiency and customer experience, and to boost the firm’s agility and resilience for the future. For DTSE that journey…
Public Spend Forum: PPE products marketplace launched and Leaders Exchange reconvenes
November 20, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Public Spend Forum (PSF) is a public sector procurement global community and market intelligence platform dedicated to improving public buying everywhere. GovShop is its free-to-use global government market research tool for finding and connecting with suppliers. Here's the latest from PSF:

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E-procurement as a strategic weapon — With BuyerQuest acquisition, ODP preps for war in omnichannel B2B : Jason Busch said : From an antitrust standpoint, I wonder if this makes ODP + Staples look like less of a competitor by...

Procurement in Practice: Sustainability — Getting from the pledge to action at Bayer : Fabian Lampe said : Having worked for Bayer and Unilever I really must say that the pledge and the ambition is bold and ...

Demystifying the role of technology in supply chain finance: Blockchain : Riya Kaif said : Insightful article on the role of blockchain technology in supply chain finance. Looking forward to ...

Study Finds Nascent Adoption of AI and Robotics in Retail and Manufacturing Supply Chains : Elena said : As robots increasingly move from warehouses to shopfronts, embedding Artificial Intelligence (AI) in...

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