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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”…
Digital Procurement balances business requirements to improve efficiencies - [Sponsored Article]
December 8, 2020 | Dave Brittain, Director of Amazon Business UK & Ireland
Coordinating the various needs of a business is a challenge, for small and large organizations alike. Whether you’re looking to improve your processes or meet projected targets, ensuring everyone in your business has what they need to function optimally can take up precious time and resources that hinder opportunities for more strategic projects and talent…
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:
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.
Digital procurement’s new frontier: Closing the knowledge gap with market intelligence tools
June 1, 2020 | Spend Matters Brand Studio
The last several weeks of the COVID disruption has laid bare just how little companies sometimes know about their suppliers. It has become evident that truly knowing your suppliers goes beyond which one has passed their certifications or which one is hitting their KPIs. Your teams probably keep tabs on that, or soon will. But…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Supply Risk — Mitigating and Recovering from the Grey Swan of COVID-19 - [PRO Content]
April 6, 2020 | Pierre Mitchell
The mission of our “Coronavirus Response” series is to examine categories of relevant solutions and example providers that professionals in procurement, finance and supply chain organizations should investigate to reduce coronavirus supply risk. We’re calling the pandemic a “grey swan” because pandemics are not unknown risks. If you look at the 2019 World Economic Forum…
Category Analytics and Intelligence Providers: Defining and Exploring a Nascent Market for Procurement Solutions (Part 4 — IT, Marketing and Should-Cost Software) - [PRO Content]
February 14, 2020 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
This final PRO installment of Spend Matters’ assessment of category analytics and category intelligence looks at providers focused on IT, marketing and should-cost modeling/analysis. Accurate intelligence and benchmarks on goods and services are essential to effective sourcing, yet few procurement organizations have comprehensive coverage for all data sources across all categories that they manage. So…
Category Analytics and Intelligence Providers: Defining and Exploring a Nascent Market for Procurement Solutions (Part 3 — Labor/Services and Transportation) - [PRO Content]
February 12, 2020 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Accurate intelligence and benchmarks on goods and services are essential to effective sourcing, yet few procurement organizations have comprehensive coverage for all data sources across all categories that they manage. So to help practitioners get a better lay of the category intelligence and analytics landscape, Spend Matters has begun a market scan of technology, data/benchmarking…
Category Analytics and Intelligence Providers: Defining and Exploring a Nascent Market for Procurement Solutions (Part 2 — Direct Materials, Indirect Materials and Cross-Category Specialists) - [PRO Content]
February 11, 2020 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
Accurate intelligence and benchmarks on goods and services are essential to effective sourcing, yet few procurement organizations have comprehensive coverage for all data sources across all categories that they manage. So to help practitioners get a better lay of the category intelligence and analytics landscape, Spend Matters has begun a market scan of technology, data/benchmarking…
Category Analytics and Intelligence Providers: Defining and Exploring a Nascent Market for Procurement Solutions (Part 1 — Introduction) - [PRO Content]
February 10, 2020 | Spend Matters Analyst Team
If data is the new oil, then identifying the reservoirs and shale formations from which to extract prices, benchmarks and other pertinent purchasing information is a critical task for procurement and supply chain organizations. Why? Because the success of any sourcing effort depends on not just identifying the appropriate specifications and suppliers to satisfy a…
SIG dispatch: Leasing Spend — The Hidden Double Digit (millions) Category Savings Opportunity! (Part 1)
October 17, 2019 | Jason Busch
At SIG’s Global Executive Summit this week in California, two sessions, a mainstage panel and a breakout session, focused on the opportunity for lease sourcing. Two LeaseAccelerator execs — Steve Keifer, VP of Marketing, and Ingemar Lanevi, VP of Global Lease Sourcing Solutions — ran the sessions. EVERY procurement leader and category manager who has…
Contract Workers Needn’t Be Bad News — Unless You Allow Them to Be
May 30, 2019 | Guest Contributor
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Pradeep Chauhan, founder of OnContracting, an online directory of U.S. staffing agencies that helps jobseekers find temporary contract jobs. Companies’ procurement of contract workers has in recent times become a flashpoint, sometimes tarnishing the pristine reputations of even the most reputable companies. A number of stories in the media…

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Delivering Value Beyond Savings — Procurement’s Role in Times of Disruption : Kapil Paliwal said : While Buyers will try to optimize the cost, Suppliers would also equally or even more keen to look f...

Delivering Value Beyond Savings — Procurement’s Role in Times of Disruption : Bhagyashree Indane said : Brilliant Article! Discovering innovative strategies in the procurement processes can help industrie...

Delivering Value Beyond Savings — Procurement’s Role in Times of Disruption : Punam Nevatia said : Very well put together. Kudos!...

Clarifying Robotic Process Automation: What It Is (and Isn’t) for Procurement : David Harris said : Companies tend to assign procurement as an expanded and more important role of a strategic partner. ...

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