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Women in Procurement Wednesday: Sylvie Noel on proving procurement value and recognizing one another in the industry
January 20, 2021 | Morgan Zombolas
“My daily job and what I’m trying to do with my team is to prove the value — with a big V — of what procurement is,” said Sylvie Noel, the Chief Procurement Officer at Covea Group. “For me, the best value we can have is to be involved as soon as possible in the…
Contingent Workforce/Services Technology: Considerations for 2021 and Beyond COVID-19 (Part 2) - [PRO Content]
January 20, 2021 | Andrew Karpie
In Part 2 of this Spend Matters PRO series, we continue our examination of key trends in five main contingent workforce/services technology solution categories for 2021. And we discuss how organizations and executives — shaken awake by months of pandemic pressures and economic disruptions in 2020 — may be taking a fresh look at CW/S…
Supplier collaboration: Turning the dial on the innovation and sustainability agenda
January 20, 2021 | Brand Studio
We’ve seen from 2020 the importance of organizational resilience, both operational and strategic. The core to that resilience lies with supplier/buyer relationships and collaboration. What 2020 therefore has also highlighted is the need for nimbleness, speed and flexibility in doing that. And that is one of the reasons why supplier collaboration initiatives have become so…
Coronavirus crisis affected the most negotiated contract terms of 2020, Icertis survey shows
January 19, 2021 | Kyra Senese
Unforeseeable circumstances brought on by the coronavirus pandemic added significant pressure on companies this year as executives had to adapt, and supply chains were strained globally. A new report by Icertis, a provider of contract lifecycle management technology, evaluated the extent to which the crazy year dominated by the pandemic affected negotiated contract terms.
$1.6 million no-bid computer deal for Chicago Public Schools raises issue of proper procurement amid COVID crisis
January 18, 2021 | Sally Ehrmann and JP Morris
Procurement standards and processes obviously needed a layer of flexibility during the emergency coronavirus lockdowns last spring. But how flexible is too flexible, and where do governments need to draw the line to maintain open, honest and transparent buying processes when dealing with taxpayers’ money or emergency funding? A procurement story with Chicago Public Schools…
Delivering Value Beyond Savings — Procurement’s Role in Times of Disruption
January 14, 2021 | Bristlecone
Deeply hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are now exploring innovative ways to drive additional profits and increase revenue. Hard-hit sectors like manufacturing, entertainment, transportation and hospitality, to name a few, remain gripped by uncertainty. It may take a while, years in some cases, for companies in these industries to recover to pre-COVID levels. Companies…
Accounts Payables Automation update (Part 2) — Re-evaluating e-pro, supplier enablement, invoicing, payments, financing, analytics - [PRO Content]
January 14, 2021 | Xavier Olivera
As Spend Matters re-evaluates the AP automation sector’s technology developments, Part 2 of this PRO analyst series will focus on the six key elements of AP automation that we evaluate for our SolutionMap’s scoring and ranking of vendor offerings. (Don't read this without reading Part 1, about re-evaluating the tech developments in AP automation.) We…
Accounts Payables Automation update (Part 1) — Re-evaluating the sector’s technology developments - [PRO Content]
January 13, 2021 | Xavier Olivera
Accounts payables is a business process with great operational workload that needs to be handled with great efficiency and effectiveness. If not done well, it might generate significant additional costs to the business and add risks like business fraud or damage commercial relationships with suppliers — all of which harm a company’s bottom line. Although…
PRO Unlimited acquires PeopleTicker in bid for more contingent workforce market data
January 12, 2021 | Andrew Karpie
PRO Unlimited, the contingent workforce management services solution provider, announced its acquisition of PeopleTicker, the workforce rate benchmarking and analytics platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to today’s announcement, by acquiring PeopleTicker, PRO Unlimited “has expanded the capabilities of its contingent workforce management platform.” The announcement also noted that PeopleTicker uses…
Silver linings from the pandemic — an analyst’s eye on procurement and supply chain predictions for 2021
January 12, 2021 | Magnus Bergfors and Nancy Clinton
Spend Matters has just finished a series of procurement and supply chain predictions for 2021, with commentary from about 20 leading procurement technology and intelligence providers. Together their foresight runs to 60+ predictions, with the majority of providers unsurprisingly backing supply chain risk mitigation as the forerunner to get firms through 2021 and beyond. Certain…
Procurement in Practice: ‘It’s always the people at the end of the supply chain that get squeezed’
January 11, 2021 | Nancy Clinton
Spend Matters is running a series of interviews with senior procurement and supply chain practitioners to highlight and share common experiences with their peers. We are discussing their challenges, their thoughts on people, process and technology, and their concerns or hopes for the future, across many industries. The publishing industry, like all industries in recent…
2021 Procurement and Supply Chain Predictions from the market — Fairmarkit
January 8, 2021 | Nancy Clinton
Last year at the end of December 2019, we ran a series of predictions about procurement and supply chain trends for 2020 from expert tech and service providers in the market. But who could have foreseen what happened in 2020! This year, the market again provides its predictions for the next 12 months, using learnings…

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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. ...

2021 Procurement and Supply Chain Predictions from the market — The Smart Cube and Capita : Ande Sampathi said : It is valuable information &knowledge help for me intelligent procurement! Thank you very much....