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Spend Matters' sister site Public Spend Forum has plenty of untold stories to tell on the government providing new and innovative ways to deliver goods and services to its citizens – and is now launching a podcast to tell them. The Public Impact Podcast is live with its first episode featuring Dave Zvenyach, acquisition management director at the Genera Services Administration's digital services division, 18F. We encourage you to subscribe and rate via iTunes, Android or email.

Earlier this summer, Bruno Koch, founder of Billentis, released his company’s annual e-invoicing market study. The report is currently the best piece of research available on e-invoicing adoption trends. (Though, because the quantitative components are based at least in part on vendor-reported information, we should take the numbers as directional rather than definitive.) Regardless, Koch also features a number of qualitative observations as well – which are arguably just as insightful. In the coming week on Spend Matters, I’ll highlight some of the findings of the report along with our own market commentary and analysis, starting today with the increasing interest in the public sector in e-invoicing adoption.

What happens when a monopoly buyer (a monopsony) meets a monopoly seller or a well-organised cartel? It’s a bit like the irresistible force meeting the […]

In my first post, I talked about the prohibitive cost of resisting change for public sector procurement departments. Since then, I’ve read a very interesting article that provides the hard numbers to fortify my comments. According to a report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government could save upwards of $12 billion annually by adopting procurement practices that are commonplace in the private sector. And that’s only the federal government – no mention of dollars being lost by hundreds upon hundreds of local government procurement offices.

IDG News Service recently published a fascinating summary of supply risk in today's US defense supply chain, looking at a range of vulnerabilities posed by […]

Spend Matters welcomes a guest post from Mark Digman, VP of product marketing and strategy at SciQuest. Be sure to join Spend Matters and SciQuest […]

At the core of sound strategic sourcing lies spend analytics. Inevitably, you need to analyze the potential contribution impact among the many activities you could […]

If you have missed the many stories of failing California cities and municipalities, take a look at the city of Stockton’s continued unraveling, and bankruptcy […]

The Washington Post recently ran an Op-Ed suggesting that sequester (i.e., forced budget cuts) may not be such a bad thing. The Post notes that […]

Last week, the UK Government announced that public sector buyers should start taking into account the track record of potential suppliers in terms of tax […]

Earlier this week, we began to explore the absurd nature of public sector sourcing requirements that require guidelines and handbooks spanning thousands of pages but […]

Having gotten to know a good number of executives and consultants over the years working in public sector sourcing in the US – not to […]