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The Contingent Workforce and Services (CW/S) Insider’s Hot List: August 2020 - [PRO Content]
August 3, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Welcome to the August 2020 edition of Spend Matters Insider’s Hot List, a monthly look at the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) space. Starting with this issue, due to the discontinuation of our Spend Matters Plus+ subscription, the Hot List will now be available to PRO subscribers only. For those new to the Hot List,…
An Executive’s Guide to Direct Sourcing of Contract Work/Services (Part 3) — What To Pay Attention To - [PRO Content]
July 28, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Direct sourcing of contract work/services is an emerging, alternative way of tapping into pools of contract workers and service providers that are not available through established sourcing channels provided by procurement. Senior executives may be hearing more about this phenomenon, or their organizations may already be embarking on an initiative. As such, a clear understanding…
An Executive’s Guide to Direct Sourcing of Contract Work/Services (Part 2) — Technology - [PRO Content]
July 22, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Direct sourcing is a popular topic among contingent workforce practitioners today, and a significant number of organizations are either looking into it or starting to do it. But there is a lot of confusion about the concept. This three-part Spend Matters PRO series tries to put direct sourcing into perspective by offering executives a way…
Healthcare services procurement solution Medpricer becomes Conductiv — and expands scope - [PRO Content]
July 15, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
The third-party services procurement solution provider Medpricer recently announced its rebranding and its name change to Conductiv. The company also announced the addition of new offerings. Conductiv is owned by Premier Inc. but operates as an independent business entity, with its own branding, product line and market strategy. Partly based on a recent conversation with…
An Executive’s Guide to Direct Sourcing of Contract Work/Services (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
July 13, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Direct sourcing of work/services, in the simplest terms, means sourcing workers/providers without traditional intermediaries like a recruiting firm or temporary staffing agency. It is not a new practice, but over the past several years, it has become something significantly different than what it was 10 years ago. While direct sourcing — particularly of permanent workers…
Spend Matters previews Everest Group’s contingent workforce management (CWM) best-practices study - [PRO Content]
June 29, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
The management consultant and research firm Everest Group recently conducted a survey to get a clearer picture of how well organizations manage their contingent workforces, what practices they have adopted and to what extent. Spend Matters assisted in the survey design, and Everest Group completed the survey and analyzed the data using its Pinnacle Model…
Extended Workforce Tracking Solutions: Can They Fill Your Gap in Visibility, Control? (Part 3) — Analyst Perspective - [PRO Content]
June 17, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Today, we’ll take a big-picture view of the sector for extended workforce tracking solutions, and we’ll offer some tech selection considerations. Part 1 of this three-part Spend Matters PRO series outlined the three general types of potential solutions (VMS, FMS and EWS, extended workforce systems). And Part 2 presented overviews of three providers/solutions that gave…
Extended Workforce Tracking Solutions: Can They Fill Your Gap in Visibility, Control? (Part 2) — A Look at 3 Providers - [PRO Content]
June 16, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
In Part 1 of this three-part Spend Matters PRO series, we asserted that amid the COVID-19 crisis, some organizations may be focusing their attention on and gaining visibility into their external or extended workforces (comprised of temporary staffing workers, independent contract workers and service provider workers). Considering that business practitioners might be thinking about available…
Extended Workforce Tracking Solutions: Can They Fill Your Gap in Visibility, Control? (Part 1) — Landscape Overview - [PRO Content]
June 15, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
As the economy begins to tentatively lurch forward amid the coronavirus disruption, and large and midsize organizations begin to reconstitute their workforces and supplier relationships for a new normal business environment, we may see an adjustment of focus on their flexible, non-employee workforces. We do not know what organizations’ extended workforces (a mix of temporary…
Specialist Providers of Extended Workforce Rate Benchmarking and Analytics — Series Wrap-Up - [PRO Content]
May 14, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
Back in December, we initiated a five-part series with a brief titled A new species: Specialist providers of contingent workforce rate benchmarking/analytics. In that brief, we identified three third-party (standalone, vendor-neutral) providers that are, broadly speaking, data management and analytics providers and establishing a framework for analyzing providers, capabilities and services from a business-buyer standpoint.…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Workforce data and analytics in a time of crisis - [PRO Content]
April 28, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
In the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) category of Spend Matters’ Coronavirus Response series, our focus has been on solutions that are able to, at a minimum, help rapidly ramp up extended workforce to deal with resource shortfalls as well as manage and track as well as track and manage external workers, projects and services…
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Contingent Workforce/Services — Can direct sourcing of work and services help in this crisis? - [PRO Content]
April 27, 2020 | Andrew Karpie
In the contingent workforce and services (CW/S) category of Spend Matters’ Coronavirus Response series, our focus has been on solutions that are able to, at a minimum, help rapidly ramp up extended workforce to deal with resource shortfalls as well as manage and track external workers, projects and services providers. We are examining four categories…

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Q&A: ‘Unless procurement takes a different view to management of services spend, it will continue to be difficult to get it right’ : Outsourced Procurement said : Procurement should always be seen as a collaboration. Whether that's with internal departments and s...

Suppliers and Ariba: Prisoners or Not? : K said : Agree!!! Suppliers should not have to pay for access to a customer mandated system. If they want us...

WorkMarket Partners to Offer Full Coverage Workers’ Compensation for Freelancers : Andrew Karpie said : Hi James, This article is from 2017. So not sure of what is the current status at WorkMarket for t...

5 Themes That Excite Me About Procurement & Finance Tech Venture Investing : Peter Smith said : Great stuff Jason. I might add that despite the maturity, there are still some major areas with big ...

WorkMarket Partners to Offer Full Coverage Workers’ Compensation for Freelancers : James Calbert said : Is this saying that, as a service provider, workers comp is covered by WorkMarket?...