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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.
5 simple truths about category management - [Sponsored Article]
November 12, 2020 | Jake Taylor, ProcureAbility
Category management may not be known as simple, but it doesn’t need to be complicated either. Whether you’re a procurement leader who has implemented category management or are thinking about it, here are five simple truths about category management.
Procurement in Practice — JSC Ukrainian Railways CPO talks to Spend Matters
November 9, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
For our new monthly CPO interview series, Spend Matters' Nancy Clinton talks with Sergii Dovgalenko, an experienced procurement strategist and transformation executive. He is also a licensed tutor and author — his most recent book being “The Technology Procurement Handbook: A Practical Guide to Digital Buying." Prior to being CPO of JSC Ukrainian Railways, he…
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…
The Smart Cube-Cirtuo partnership — a game changer for category managers
October 27, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Last month, a procurement solutions partnership was announced between two solution providers that will transform the category strategy development process for many practitioners. Long acknowledged as a time-consuming and arduous exercise full of inconsistent methodologies, category management has often time fallen by the wayside as procurement functions prioritize other processes. But that’s about to change.…
IT Supply Chain: Tech sales see some silver linings
October 13, 2020 | Guest Contributor
COVID-19 continues to depress some parts of the economy but, from a financial perspective, there were some silver linings. Sales in technology that support work and play at home were on the rise in September, giving the IT supply chain and business users some much needed respite in what has been a difficult year for…
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 3) — Digitally Enabled Engagement, Outcomes, Demand and Spend - [PRO Content]
September 22, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the first installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we kicked off our analysis of how progressive organizations are influencing spend and stakeholders at a deeper level beyond traditional sourcing influence. In Part 2, we discussed how progressive procurement organizations were improving their influence through coherent communication and alignment of procurement “services” to various…
Using bridge solutions to speed up the consumerization of procurement - [Sponsored Article]
September 22, 2020 | Frank Treanor, CEO, ProProcure
What is a bridge solution and how can it help speed up the consumerization of services procurement — and why is that important? Bridge solutions (or stop-gap solutions) are simply solutions that solve specific problems. These are typically problems that have not yet been addressed by P2P solutions because they are too niche or specific.…
IT Supply Chain: Pandemic continues to impact the technology sector
September 17, 2020 | Guest Contributor
The pandemic continued to have an impact on the technology sector in August, with everything from smartphones to servers affected. Smartphone shipments continued to fall, with analysts saying they don't expect a proper recovery to pre-pandemic levels before 2022. There were a few positives though, with sales increases in the notebook and WLAN markets. But…
Amazon Business Exchange: ‘Digital-First’ – Interact with Amazon Business and its customers in a free-to-attend event
September 9, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Next month, October 6-7, sees the return of Amazon Business Exchange (ABX) — a free-to-attend event for procurement, finance and supply chain leaders. This on-line event will bring together a community of B2B buyers from procurement and the supply chain, and representatives from industry, to connect and collaborate and to share the experiences and learnings…
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 2) — Empathy, Alignment, Mission, Brand and Procurement Service Delivery - [PRO Content]
September 3, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the first installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we kicked off our analysis of how progressive organizations are influencing spend and stakeholders at a deeper level beyond traditional sourcing influence. In this next edition, we’ll dive into some strategies for deeper and more meaningful engagement with stakeholders, and some examples from some progressive…
Alibaba.com: Ecosystem marketplace designed for SMB (Overview & Analysis) - [PRO Content]
August 24, 2020 | David Gustin
Businessman Jack Ma had a vision to use technology to democratize global trade. Alibaba.com was born 21 years ago, and for the first 17 years, it was a way to source from China or find OEM companies, contractors, etc. Basically, it was a directory of Chinese OEM capability But the vision was always for Alibaba.com…

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