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What exactly is a ‘sustainable turkey’?
December 10, 2020 | Guest Contributor
Thanks to our friend and former colleague Peter Smith for addressing this seasonal burning issue. Knowing my interest in “procurement with purpose” and the sustainability agenda generally, a friend recently asked me the question "What exactly is a sustainable turkey?" with Thanksgiving and Christmas in mind. Their angle was that a turkey can’t be “sustainable”…
The Direct Sourcing of Workers/Services (DSW/S) Solution Market Landscape - [PRO Content]
December 8, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Spend Matters Contingent Workforce/Services SolutionMaps are made up of three maps covering the main enterprise software solutions used by organizations to manage contingent workforce and services (CW/S) procurement. These three maps represent purpose-built solutions for: Temporary Staffing (solutions known originally as VMS (vendor management system) has been the key enterprise technology for over 25 years)…
Why you are thinking about direct spend AP automation all wrong
November 30, 2020 | Spend Matters Brand Studio
In light of all the disruption over the last year, businesses must re-examine how they operate, and bottlenecks in back-office operations are ripe for digital transformation that can make companies more agile and resilient. One of the key chokepoints where supply chain operations teams think about procurement technology the wrong way is believing that an…
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:
Afternoon Coffee: Unemployment filings see 4th straight week of decline in improving economy; Tropical Storm Eta soaks Florida; SIG talks procurement trends, Future 5 start-ups with Spend Matters
November 12, 2020 | Sally Ehrmann
In today's headlines, first-time unemployment claims fell to 709,000, indicating the labor economy is on the upswing from the COVID-19 crisis. In other news, Tropical Storm Eta made landfall Wednesday in Florida, leading to minor disruptions. Also, Spend Matters' research analyst Nick Heinzmann spoke with SIG on Wednesday about the Future 5 and trends he…
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.
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 5) — Supply Chain / Direct Procurement Influence (Cont.) - [PRO Content]
October 22, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the previous installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we explored how procurement can improve its influence within the broader supply chain by supporting product/service lifecycles and transcending just basic BoM-based direct materials sourcing workflows. In that piece we explored how procurement can support sales and marketing processes to improve revenue uplift. In this…
Beyond Spend Influence: Enabling Procurement’s Emerging Roles in Business Transformation (Part 4) — Supply Chain / Direct Procurement (Introduction) - [PRO Content]
October 13, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
In the previous installment of this Spend Matters PRO series, we dove into procurement improving its influence into indirect spending and how it can improve how the business gets more value from its spend and its “spend management” process (e.g., dovetailing into the business planning process). In this installment, we’ll turn our attention to supply…
Billtrust solution overview: A supplier-centric B2B payments offering - [PRO Content]
September 14, 2020 | David Gustin
Billtrust’s solution focuses on payments from a different angle. B2B payments capabilities have almost always been viewed from the payer perspective. How do we get more manual or check payments electronically? How do I increase my rebates using a card program? How can we simplify cross-border payments? The list goes on. From the source-to-pay vendor…
IT Supply Chain – smartphone sales drop, smart home-device market grows
August 17, 2020 | Guest Contributor
Ian Nethercot, MCIPS, Supply Chain Director at Probrand shares his learnings on the latest IT supply chain developments. There were some gloomy patches and brighter […]
Part Analytics: A New Vendor in Direct Materials Analytics - [PRO Content]
July 30, 2020 | Magnus Bergfors
Analytics is hot! According to the 2019 Deloitte Global CPO Survey, analytics is the technology that CPOs believe will have the most impact on their businesses over the next two years. And there is no shortage of vendors wanting their piece of the pie. New analytics vendors are emerging both in the traditional spend analysis…
Getting Real and Resilient in Direct Procurement Execution
June 23, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
Direct procurement execution area (i.e., e-procurement for direct) has been crying out for better technology for over 40 years, and it’s actually much more complicated than you’d think. I’ll dive into this in future analyses, but one interesting provider that I checked out recently is SourceDay. Despite the name, it’s not a strategic sourcing player,…

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Greensill Capital’s troubles, supply chain finance — and where do we go from here? : Markus Hornburg said : Today the German financial regulators effectively closed Greensill Bank in Germany. The fallout will...

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...