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Services Procurement is Broken: Finding Fixes Beyond Contingent Workforce Management, E-procurement - [PRO Content]
March 12, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
If you google the term “services procurement,” you’ll see an article from my colleague Andrew Karpie touching on the topic front and center. He talks about the need to transcend the traditional contingent labor-centric view of what is in fact a much larger scope dealing with the procurement of all services. Aggregate annual spend on…
Business Talent Group: A Specialist in Sourcing High-end Independent Talent - [PRO Content]
October 31, 2018 | Andrew Karpie
Business Talent Group (BTG), which launched in late 2007, is a unique direct-sourcing, flexible talent intermediation solution focused specifically on “high-end” business talent and the organizations that need to engage this talent on a project basis. Over the past several years, online platform intermediaries of various kinds have captured the spotlight. But BTG has not…
ADP and the Future of Work (Part 3) — Strategy Explanation - [PRO Content]
October 22, 2018 | Andrew Karpie
In Part 1 of this Spend Matters PRO series, we summarized ADP’s business characteristics, its market and financial strength, and its increased investment in innovation R&D as a backdrop and foundation for the pursuit of its future-of-work strategy. In Part 2, we examined the significant technology developments and recent strategic acquisitions that make up key…
Corcentric Acquires Source One: Transaction Analysis (Part 2) — Customer Recommendations, Selection Checklist and Procurement Consulting Market Update - [PRO Content]
May 31, 2018 | Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell
Procurement consulting sector insiders might look at Corcentric’s acquisition of Source One as a rounding error representing what is most likely materially less than the revenue — both in terms of revenue contribution and valuation — that a single large client can bring to a Big Five strategy or operations firms over the course of…
Corcentric Acquires Source One: Transaction Analysis (Part 1) — Background, Rationale and Deal Analysis - [PRO Content]
May 25, 2018 | Jason Busch
Corcentric, a unique amalgam of accounts payable automation, order-to-cash, trade financing and group purchasing organization (GPO) software and services, announced earlier in May it would acquire Source One, a boutique sourcing and procurement consultancy. Terms of the transaction were not announced, but Spend Matters believes they are in line with the increasingly higher revenue and…
Insight Sourcing Group (ISG): Provider Introduction, Summary and SWOT - [PRO Content]
April 11, 2018 | Jason Busch
Insight Sourcing Group (ISG) is likely the largest North American boutique management consulting firm providing strategic and operational solutions for procurement. But unlike similar firms, ISG offers more than just consulting services. Beyond its core business, ISG has three additional business units that form the nucleus of its offering: SpendHQ, a spend analytics platform; InsightGPO,…
Catalant: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths & Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
November 15, 2017 | Andrew Karpie
This PRO Vendor Snapshot focuses on Catalant, an online (cloud-based) work intermediary and evolving enterprise platform that allows organizations to access and engage highly skilled, well-credentialed independent business consultants and small, boutique consulting businesses. These resources can be sourced from Catalant’s own “digital marketplace” of independent talent and small consulting providers, which has been growing…
Lessons From KPMG Clients: When Procurement Strategy, Transformation, and Technology Intersect - [PRO Content]
June 16, 2016 | Jason Busch
Over the past few months, the Spend Matters team has had the chance to speak to a number of KPMG clients who used the consultancy in various capacities in and around procurement strategy, transformation and technology. The lessons learned point to the importance of not only selecting the right consulting partner for multiple initiatives but…
Selecting Management Consultants For Procurement — Don’t Rely on ‘Quadrants’ Alone - [PRO Content]
February 18, 2016 | Jason Busch
Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory (now part of ALM Intelligence) recently came out with two separate “quadrant”-based rankings of procurement consulting firms. We believe that from a pragmatic selection standpoint, such approach to reports, even if they were carried out with the utmost diligence (something we would expect of Kennedy), result in the distillation of…
Why Services Firms are Finally Developing Successful Procurement Technology Applications — and Why You Should Sometimes Consider Them - [PRO Content]
February 10, 2016 | Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell
For well over a decade, consultancies, business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, managed services providers (MSPs) and other services firms in the procurement ecosystem have tried to develop procurement technology solutions that can stand on their own. Just about all of these early efforts were either failures or just never could be properly sustained and supported…
A Management Consulting and Systems Integrator Evolution — KPMG and Taulia as Archetype for a New Partnering Model - [PRO Content]
January 11, 2016 | Jason Busch
Formal partnerships and partnering strategies within the management consulting, systems integrator ecosystem and technology vendor ecosystem have taken a rather curious path with many twists and turns in the past two decades. Yet the biggest shift of all appears to be taking shape as we turn our calendar to 2016. This Spend Matters PRO research…
Benchmarking the Procurement Benchmarkers – An Insider’s Guide (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
March 18, 2014 | Pierre Mitchell
Here at Spend Matters, we’ve been on a bit of a Procurement Performance Measurement kick lately. We started with a three-part series on A.T. Kearney’s ROSMA metric, and then we did a three-part series on improving procurement scorecards, which was then followed up by a deep dive on Implementation Considerations in Quantifying and Tracking Hard…

A History of Purchasing: From “Materials Men” to Today (Part 2: 1950s - Present) : Diana said : Purchasing and Supply Chain Management are impacting company health supply, risk control, inventory,...

Finding Procurement’s Place in the Organizational Hierarchy : Macs Nsirim said : i honestly agree with this write up. i currently work as a procurement officer in an organization ...

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : John Peyton said : Thank you. Sounds like there’s more horsepower behind it than I thought then. Interesting....

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : JP Morris said : Hi John, Spend Matters asked PRO Unlimited about this, and it said its latest data-as-a-service pla...

Afternoon Coffee: PRO Unlimited launches DaaS solution; Covid pandemic highlights the need for US manufacturing; Chick-fil-A supply chain woes : John Peyton said : I’ve never used Pro Unlimited but other similar providers in their space who I have used provided my...