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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…
Tech Enabling Procurement Shared Services: SAP Ariba Begins the Journey - [PRO Content]
April 5, 2018 | Jason Busch, Pierre Mitchell and Xavier Olivera
Procurement shared services organizations and centers of excellence (CoEs) are sometimes tasked with the operational management of source-to-pay technologies on behalf of the organizations they serve. But up until now, they have not utilized purpose-built solutions to improve their own operations. While many use core analytics, sourcing, contract management, supplier management, e-procurement and invoice-to-pay solutions…
SAP Ariba Procurement Desk: Shared Services and Center of Excellence (CoE) Enablement - [PRO Content]
April 4, 2018 | Jason Busch, Pierre Mitchell and Xavier Olivera
Procurement shared services groups can take different shapes and can add different sources of value. Shared services tend to focus on procure-to-pay (P2P) and accounts payable support, including supplier enablement, supplier master data maintenance, transactional purchasing, transaction processing, invoice automation and exception management. CoEs focus on both a classic shared services model (i.e., supporting processes…
SAP Ariba Takes Aim at Procurement CoEs Services with A Targeted Shared Services Offering
March 7, 2018 | Jason Busch
Procurement shared services teams — also known as centers of excellence (CoEs) — don’t get enough respect. In larger companies, they are often critical not only to bringing greater operating efficiency to AP and P2P transaction processing but are also increasingly involved in strategic areas including market intelligence, strategic sourcing and even sourcing optimization. Many…
Procurement as a Service (PRaaS) — Part 4: Assembling Third-Party Services
April 12, 2017 | Pierre Mitchell
In our previous installment of this series, we discussed how an industrialized procurement as a service (PRaaS) model is critical to not just running procurement more efficiently and effectively but also buying and embedding cloud services better, as well as tie procurement into broader digital business strategy efforts. The notion of procurement as a “prosumer”…
Procurement as a Service (PRaaS) — Part 3: Unpacking the Services Stack
April 11, 2017 | Pierre Mitchell
In Part 1 of the series, we delved into why procurement should run itself as a services business, and in Part 2, we shared how procurement can learn from other types of professional services businesses to bring more rigor and value to its internal customers and even external customers. On this last point, organizations such…
Elemica: Shifting From a Shared Services Bazaar to Platform “PaaS” Standard - [PRO Content]
November 18, 2013 | Jason Busch
In this series covering Elemica and the platform shift, we’ll explore Elemica’s platform strategy, including associated infrastructure and application components. We will also touch on how these platform building blocks fit into an evolving technology landscape that will increasingly prioritize interoperability and collaboration between organizations as much as internal processes and systems integration.
Procurement & Shared Services: Beyond Accounts Payable (Part 2)
December 6, 2012 | Jason Busch
Earlier today, we began to explore how to think outside the accounts payable (AP) box when examining procurement-focused shared services efforts. Spend Matters research suggests […]
Procurement & Shared Services: Beyond Accounts Payable (Part 1)
December 6, 2012 | Jason Busch
We recently covered shared services for the first time in detail on Spend Matters PRO, examining the intersections of accounts payable, outsourcing and procurement, including […]

E-procurement as a strategic weapon — With BuyerQuest acquisition, ODP preps for war in omnichannel B2B : Jason Busch said : From an antitrust standpoint, I wonder if this makes ODP + Staples look like less of a competitor by...

Procurement in Practice: Sustainability — Getting from the pledge to action at Bayer : Fabian Lampe said : Having worked for Bayer and Unilever I really must say that the pledge and the ambition is bold and ...

Demystifying the role of technology in supply chain finance: Blockchain : Riya Kaif said : Insightful article on the role of blockchain technology in supply chain finance. Looking forward to ...

Study Finds Nascent Adoption of AI and Robotics in Retail and Manufacturing Supply Chains : Elena said : As robots increasingly move from warehouses to shopfronts, embedding Artificial Intelligence (AI) in...

Afternoon Coffee: November PMI registers seventh consecutive month of growth; US Supreme Court hears suit on child labor in cocoa supply chain; Medius announces partnership with Changepond : Oliver Harris said : Indeed, RPA is the primary factor and an entry-level strategy to digitally transform your business e...