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Government Contracting: 5 Trends to Watch
March 1, 2019 | JP Morris
It’s time to check in with Public Spend Forum, a sister site of ours, to see how knowing about trends in government contracting can improve your chances of landing those contracts, help you take advantage of emerging services and expand your business. Its story on government contracting focuses on five trends.
AP Automation: 5 Ways to Lead the Transformation
February 14, 2019 | Andrea Garson, Basware
According to research from McKinsey and Co., 70% of all transformations fail. But it doesn’t have to be that way. One of the biggest challenges facing a company that will be transitioning to AP automation is getting buy-in across the organization. Sure, management is happy because they are hopefully cutting costs and improving process efficiency, but what…
How Coupa, SAP Ariba and Basware Really Did in Our Q4 SolutionMap
November 3, 2017 | Taras Berezowsky
In a paean to the recent Q4 SolutionMap release and subsequent personal analytical take on the three solution providers in this headline, Spend Matters Founder Jason Busch let everyone in on a not-so-secret secret. “Despite our marketing claims of having invested ‘hundreds of hours’ of analyst time in the process, the actual number felt like…
DHL Resilience360: A High-End Supply Risk Solution Hiding in a Logistics Services Provider (Part 2: Determining the Fit) - [PRO Content]
October 3, 2017 | Pierre Mitchell
The market for supply chain risk management solutions continues to grow. SAP Ariba is back in the game, after a market hiatus from SAP Supplier InfoNet, with a new solution. Incumbents such as riskmethods and Resilinc continue to build out their offerings, and eager adoption from a growing customer base in manufacturing and other sectors…
Chasing After Procurement Excellence: Findings from A.T. Kearney’s Latest Report
October 2, 2017 | Sydney Lazarus
World-class procurement organizations see a comparatively threefold higher return on their supply management assets, according to A.T. Kearney’s 2017 Assessment of Excellence in Procurement. The firm has been conducting these assessments every three years or so since 1992, and this is its ninth assessment. A.T. Kearney divides companies into four groups based on their ability…
Could Rising Rapeseed Oil Prices Impact the US’s New Love for the Oil?
August 30, 2017 | Mintec
Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Jonathan Stokes, market analyst at Mintec. Global rapeseed oil prices have risen steeply since the middle of June, as adverse weather conditions in a number of major rapeseed producing countries have resulted in declining crop prospects worldwide. In the U.S., usage of rapeseed oil is predicted to increase…
Afternoon Coffee: Hurricane Harvey Sends Gasoline Prices Soaring, Amazon to Lower Prices at Whole Foods
August 25, 2017 | Nick Heinzmann
Energy companies are about to feel the pain of Texas’ worst storm in decades. Amazon takes control over Whole Foods Monday, and the new owner’s first move will be to slash prices the same day. Afternoon Coffee brings you the latest in procurement and supply chain news.
Driving Compliance in Healthcare: Where Good Pitching Still Seems to Beat Great Hitting
August 24, 2017 | Tom Finn
Since the beginning of time (it seems), industry-focused supply chain management application vendors have rushed to fill ERP solution gaps. The market’s early-to-mid-stage technology adopters have invested in these “best in breed” solutions and realized the value, accepting certain workarounds, often related to data integration. Despite the staggeringly complex and ongoing problems of core hospital…
Oracle Procurement Cloud: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Product Strengths & Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
August 24, 2017 | Xavier Olivera and Tom Finn
Oracle Procurement Cloud is a procurement technology suite that is targeted primarily at three key market segments. First, net new Oracle ERP Cloud customers who are looking to add procurement suite functionality. Second are those organizations that are current Oracle eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft or JD Edwards ERP customers that may migrate to the cloud for…
Procurement’s Role in the Enterprise Working Capital Mandate
May 1, 2017 | David Gustin
With a heightened awareness over how a supplier ecosystem affects a company’s balance sheet, implementing working capital programs is increasingly part of the procurement and supply chain organizations' responsibilities, in addition to the traditional worlds of treasury and finance. The ever constant pressure to find “cash” in an organization is now commonplace as the days…
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…
2017: The Year of Digital Procurement? NEW Webinar Announcement
November 29, 2016 | Kyle Fitzsimmons
Be sure to reserve your spot for this one, because attendance will fill up fast. Digital Procurement in 2017: Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell's Predictions will feature Spend Matters' top analysts, as well as D'jay Nagalkar, vice president at GEP, on Friday, Dec. 9, at 12 p.m. CST, as they discuss everything digital procurement for the year ahead. What…

What should employers do to gain the full value of their independent workers? : Colin Serrel said : As someone whose company makes significant use of contract/independents many of your points are well...

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 ...