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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 — Tradeshift
January 6, 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 and beyond,…
2021 Procurement and Supply Chain Predictions from the market — The Smart Cube and Capita
January 4, 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 and beyond,…
2021 Procurement and Supply Chain Predictions from the market — Inverto
December 24, 2020 | 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 vendor market again provides its predictions for the next 12 months and…
CIPS and Spend Matters launch ‘Spend Friends’ monthly podcast — with a list of Top 10 challenges for 2021
December 18, 2020 | Sally Ehrmann
As part of a new partnership, the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) and Spend Matters launched a video podcast this week called “Spend Friends” to discuss all things spend management, supply chain, risk and everything else under the procurement umbrella. The podcast is hosted by Bill Michels, the VP of Operations — Americas…
Future 5 start-up winner Prewave talks risk intelligence and the role of social media
December 14, 2020 | Nancy Clinton
Prewave, a risk intelligence platform, has taken a unique approach to supply chain risk management by monitoring social media, news media and third-party data feeds and was recently named a Future 5 start-up by Spend Matters. We chatted with Prewave’s co-founder and managing director, Harald Nitschinger, to learn more about the solution and to get…
Why supplier financial health is vital to supply chain resilience - [Sponsored Article]
November 10, 2020 | Taylor Allis, Chief Product Officer at Avetta
A financial health assessment helps determine how fiscally stable — and therefore how reliable — a supplier is, which ensures better supply chain resilience. By identifying risky suppliers, you can avoid violated contracts, credit damage and project delays. Here are some of the key reasons it’s critical to perform financial health assessments with contractors.
5 tips to build supply chain resiliency now and for 2021
November 9, 2020 | Spend Matters Brand Studio
The global coronavirus crisis shocked supply chains this year, causing a lot of disruption but also setting the stage for something unexpected — the C-suite finally understanding the need for supply chain resiliency and digital transformation. And as stakeholders want to avoid the problems they’ve seen this year, they’re now leading the charge for operational…
GEP kicks off digital convention by seeking lessons on coronavirus crisis and DuPont’s insights for practitioners
October 27, 2020 | JP Morris
The online GEP Innovate 2020 conference kicked off Tuesday with a message from GEP leaders and industry heavyweights that the procurement technology suite provider works with. GEP CEO and co-Founder Subhash Makhija led a discussion with leaders from DuPont and Aptiv, an automotive electronics manufacturer, about what's going on with the coronavirus pandemic and what…
Graphite Systems: Vendor Analysis (Part 3) — Detailed Overview of the graphiteConnect Solution - [PRO Content]
October 8, 2020 | Magnus Bergfors
Part 3 of this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis focuses on Graphite Systems’ offering and gives a detailed overview of the graphiteConnect solution. The focus of its solution, graphiteConnect, has mainly been on SIM, but it has also expanded into SRM and supplier risk management. In Part 1, we discussed the company background and graphiteConnect’s…
The Hackett Group outlines how to build resilient supply chains in the wake of coronavirus
October 7, 2020 | Alex Behrens
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to generate uncertainty around both supply and demand in economies across the globe, supply chain resilience has never been more important. When planning for the medium and long term, businesses in every industry must be proactive in their response to market imbalances that accompany the pandemic recovery to remain competitive.

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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....