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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…
Public Spend Forum – Public Procurement news from this week
October 9, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Public Spend Forum talked to Kraus Hamdani Aerospace CEO & Co-founder Fatema Hamdani about the company, the problems it is solving, and how it is doing that. Under her leadership, the firm is reinventing Smart-Persistent, ultra-long-endurance drones using artificial intelligence, machine learning technology, and biomimicry. The firm develops autonomous persistent fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Systems and…
‘Bad Buying’ hits the bookshelves for procurement leaders looking to avoid deals deemed failures, frauds — and worse
October 8, 2020 | Guest Contributor
We are delighted to welcome this post from our friend and former colleague Peter Smith on the launch day of his new book. When I […]
ISS makes Spend Flexibility synonymous with Business Agility using Amazon Business
October 1, 2020 | Brand Studio
ISS, a leading global workplace experience and facility management company, provides organizations with every facility solution they might require to support their own core activities. The key to being able to give its customers this total facilities management (TFM) service is ‘agility.’ The ability to respond quickly to customer demand, no matter how small, is…
Direct Spend to See an Increase in Outsourcing: Report
April 2, 2019 | Kyra Senese
A new report from Texas-based research firm Everest Group analyzes the factors contributing to suboptimal direct spend management. The report — “Is It Time to Outsource Direct Spend Categories?” — aims to provide a process for enterprises to begin changing their approach to direct spend management.
3 Areas Where CSR Risks Hide in Your Indirect Spend (Part 2)
February 18, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann
Because procurement is so often measured on cost savings as its primary KPI, another essential factor can be left by the wayside: risk. Especially when it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, risk remains hidden within indirect spend. To see how these dangers go unaddressed, here are three areas with examples of where…
The Contingent Workforce and Services (CW/S) Insider’s Hot List: January 2019 (Special Focus Edition on Services) - [Plus + Content]
January 2, 2019 | Andrew Karpie
Welcome to the January 2019 edition of Spend Matters’ monthly feature “The Contingent Workforce and Services (CW/S) Insider’s Hot List,” available to PLUS and PRO subscribers. For those new to the Hot List, each edition covers the prior month’s important or interesting technology and innovation developments within the CW/S space, where change may be accelerating…
Trade Wars, China Hack and Fast Fashion Put Reshoring of Jobs in Spotlight
October 29, 2018 | JP Morris
The likelihood of reshoring jobs to the U.S. or Europe from places like Asia seems to be gaining momentum in light of ongoing trade wars, fears over the possible China microchip hack that attacked the U.S. supply chain, and the reality of market forces like “fast fashion” and customer demand that typically drive business decisions.…
Ask Spend Matters: Is a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) Right for Me?
December 11, 2017 | Sydney Lazarus
A reader recently wrote in with a question about how to find group purchasing organizations (GPOs) or purchasing consortia. This individual is a U.S.-based sourcing manager at Heidelberg, a multinational company that provides equipment and services for the print media industry. The reader told us that his company is thinking about bidding out for copiers…
Don’t Lose Your Shirt: American Apathy to Reshoring
June 6, 2017 | Guest Contributor
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Oliver Everhard, an associate with GEP. For decades, conventional wisdom has said that anything you can manufacture offshore — in particular, less skill-intensive products like clothing — will end up costing your company less. From a cost perspective alone, this is likely true. Yet “reshoring” — the process…
Outsourcing Flights: Was the United Airlines Fiasco Also a Supplier Management Mishap?
April 13, 2017 | Sydney Lazarus
People have pointed fingers at United for pulling passengers off after they have boarded; at the security officers who didn’t think it inappropriate to drag a 69-year-old man by his hands; at the passenger himself for not complying with airline policy — but who reads those policies when booking tickets, anyway? But our question is…
Donald Trump: A Real Risk for Outsourcing?
May 31, 2016 | Guest Contributor
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Raphael Demmer, of GEP. In a recent article, Jason Busch pre-empted me in concluding that Donald Trump would make a successful yet polarizing CPO — a conclusion we had reached as well. This assessment was based on a projection of Trump’s mannerisms on the role of a CPO,…

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