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Procurement Leaders moves its event to the fall as a coronavirus precaution
March 6, 2020 | Jason Busch
As concerns grow about the coronavirus outbreak, Procurement Leaders decided today to postpone this month’s event in Miami until the fall. The decision, no doubt not an easy one, follows similar changes in plans by a number of technology vendors in the last 72 hours, including Basware, EcoVadis, Ivalua, Oracle and SAP Ariba.
Wait a minute, is Pete Buttigieg a former procurement consultant?!?
December 12, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
This week, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, disclosed client details from his previous job as a management consultant at McKinsey (the firm obtained permission from these clients to release "Mayor Pete" from his NDAs). One of those clients was insurance provider Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The 2007 job looked…
20 Questions for E-invoicing and Procurement Network and Platform Selection (Part 2) - [Plus + Content]
October 25, 2019 | Jason Busch
Editor's note: This Spend Matters Plus brief is a refresh of our 2013 series on supplier network selection, which originally ran on Spend Matters PRO. In the first installment of this series, OB10/Tungsten, Ariba/SAP, and GXS: 20 Questions On Supplier Network Selection, we gave some context around the right organizational questions that procurement, accounts payable…
How to Use SolutionMap Buying Personas
September 17, 2019 | Spend Matters Team
The needs of each procurement organization — as well as procurement-solution providers’ organizations — are too nuanced for “one size fits all”-style rankings and recommendations from other industry intelligence firms and experts. That’s why Spend Matters ranks procurement and supply chain software providers through the prism of buying personas. With the Q3 2019 SolutionMap released…
Procurement Leaders is acquired by World 50
July 31, 2019 | JP Morris
Procurement Leaders — an organization known for its executive conferences, membership and research in the procurement sector — has announced its acquisition by World 50, an executive membership organization. Procurement Leaders CEO Nandini Basuthakur, announced the news Wednesday, saying: “We will continue to offer our unique suite of insights, applications and connections that accelerate global…
Coupa expands AWS relationship, beefs up its business spend management
June 25, 2019 | JP Morris
Coupa made two announcements Tuesday morning: It’s expanding its relationship with Amazon Web Services to help enterprises with technology spend, and it bolstered its business spend management (BSM) with several new developments.
Where’s the Beef? A Lesson for Sourcing, Procurement
June 21, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux
This post asking “Where’s the Beef?” isn’t about the beef supply chain, or the purity of the beef that you source, but yet another post about the pitch. We’re latching onto Wendy’s classic catchphrase because its message is easy to remember and one that you should never, ever forget! Especially when you are being sold…
Customize your internal payment processing needs with ‘Pay by Invoice’ at Amazon Business - [Sponsored Article]
June 18, 2019 | Yogita Mathur, Amazon Business
No two businesses are alike. Each one has their own goals, internal policies and procedures. At Amazon Business we obsess around the differences in our customers, and how we can best support their internal procurement, reconciliation and payment teams to streamline their procure-to-pay processes. To do this, Amazon Business is helping innovate on behalf of…
Beginner’s Guide to the Procurement Cycle
May 3, 2019 | Guest Contributor
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Public Spend Forum, a sister site of ours. Procurement isn’t a household topic, but it is a ubiquitous process in the business world, nonetheless. Let’s break down the concept to make it more accessible. At first glance, procurement might seem daunting to the unfamiliar; the behind-the-scenes process can…
CRO-to-CRO Video Series: Episode 3 Peels Back the Digital Procurement Platform Onion
April 29, 2019 | Taras Berezowsky and Carina Kuhl
So you’ve decided your procurement function needs to “go digital” with its software solution needs. But where to begin? How do you buy this stuff? “You start with having your business challenges in mind,” says Michel Janssen, one half of the "CRO-to-CRO" discussion pairing we've been spotlighting with a series of videos over the last…
Why Well-Run Hospitals Need Tailored Technology to Care for Patients, Business
April 22, 2019 | JP Morris
As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health systems, BJC HealthCare needs to provide consistent, high-quality patient care across all of its hospitals while maintaining operational efficiency. When the St. Louis, Missouri-based healthcare provider began its search to upgrade how it supplies its facilities, it found the healthcare marketplace provider Prodigo Solutions, which knows what hospitals…
Coupa to Buy Exari, Boosting CLM in Its Business Spend Management Suite
April 16, 2019 | JP Morris
Coupa Software is buying Exari to gain its best-of-breed contract lifecycle management (CLM) offering, Coupa announced Tuesday morning. Coupa, a San Francisco-area suite provider of business spend management (BSM), said in a news release that the transaction for Boston-based Exari is expected to close in its second fiscal quarter. In a disclosure to investors, it…

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Supplier collaboration: Turning the dial on the innovation and sustainability agenda : Tindo James said : Supplier partnerships sounds like a great concept. Moet established players in the chemical supply c...

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. ...