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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:
Is coaching the missing link as an accelerator to embed Category Management capability?
November 13, 2020 | Guest Contributor
Future Purchasing regularly talks to new clients who tell us that they have tried category management several times but never make it stick, is this true of your organization? In this article, we will explore coaching as the missing link in sustaining and embedding category management.
Great acquisitions — and how technology helps us avoid bad buying
November 11, 2020 | Guest Contributor
Anyone who reads Spend Matters knows that technology makes a vital contribution to effective procurement these days. Not using it properly can also lead to problems, and in my new book, "Bad Buying — How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds, and F*ck-ups," I talk about some issues where technology can undoubtedly help us avoid…
Public Spend Forum: taking back control of the supply chain, tech focus and winning contracts
October 30, 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: Digital transformation of the public sector starts with controlling the supply chain 4 must-do’s…
Public Spend Forum: GovShop in response to Covid-19; Engaging with Government from a distance
October 23, 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: GovShop in response to Covid-19 and Engaging with Government from a distance, plus public…
SIG Summit discusses why diversity and inclusion matter in the contingent workforce
October 22, 2020 | Sally Ehrmann and Morgan Zombolas
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated in 2017 that 55 million people in the U.S. are gig workers, compromising about 34% of the workforce. That number is expected to become 43% in 2020, and probably higher with COVID-19 placing pressure on traditional work environments. These numbers show the need to take a critical examination…
Proactis’ flagship event ReThink ’20 will focus on agility in Procurement and Finance
October 15, 2020 | Spend Matters Brand Studio
The landscapes of the Procurement and Finance functions have changed quite substantially over the past year, and even more so over the past six months as they have faced the turbulence of supply disruption, employee retention, and of course spend management challenges. The functions are facing a new way of working and have been forced to…
ABX – Amazon Business implementation and insight from Oxfordshire County Council
October 15, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Earlier this month Amazon Business held its annual flagship event Amazon Business Exchange online to bring together the procurement, finance and supply chain community to connect, collaborate and share knowledge and best practice. Spend Matters spoke with one of the presenters - Paul Ashby of Oxfordshire County Council - about his experience of the event…
SIG Summit opens with talk of CPOs, shareholder value, spend analytics
October 14, 2020 | Sally Ehrmann and Morgan Zombolas
The Sourcing Industry Group (SIG) kicked off its 59th Global Executive Summit on Tuesday with conversations covering procurement, finance, sourcing, cost savings, artificial intelligence, category management, workforce, data analytics and more. The Summit continues on Wednesday and Thursday.

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