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Cirtuo: A Laser for Strategic Procurement
The power of the platform combined with external advisory is back! Typically, an organisation will go for the platform of choice for its needs, complemented […]
Deliveroo Moving in on Food Procurement
The news that Deliveroo is offering restaurants a procurement service is fascinating. ‘Food Procurement,’ claims to offer big savings on raw ingredients, as well as […]
Ivalua in Paris – Painting an Impressive Picture
As promised we have more coverage from Ivalua Now which took place in Paris last week. Peter Smith returns to share his thoughts ... Last […]
Ivalua Now Paris: A Huge Success and a Testament to their Growth
Spend Matters analyst, Michael Lamoureux, attended Ivalua's annual conference in Paris last week. Here, he shares his experience and learnings with us. I knew that […]
Twenty Years of ProcureCon in Europe – Indirect Kicks Off 2019
We are getting into procurement spring events now. We attended eWorld this month, and ProcureCon Indirect is hot on its heels. ProcureCon started up in […]
Contribute to the Most Important Piece of Research on Category Management – In Just 10 Minutes
The category management experts at Future Purchasing have been busy putting together their global 2018 benchmarking survey. The previous one, in 2016, attracted more than […]
New Zealand Defence Procurement Update: SRM and Cat Man in Focus
At the CIPS Fellows meeting last week, I bumped into three old friends and fine procurement people – Jason Waterman, who I worked with on […]
Category Management Survey – An Invitation for You
At some point, we suspect that artificial intelligence might have a profound effect on category management, but in the meantime, it continues to be an […]
Future Purchasing on Category Management – Is It Rocket Science? (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series we started looking at a very good article by Allison Ford-Langstaff on the Future Purchasing website. The firm is […]
Future Purchasing on Category Management – Is It Rocket Science?
There’s a very good article on the Future Purchasing website from Allison Ford-Langstaff, who is one of the leaders at the consulting and training firm. […]
Workshop on June 14th – Develop Better and More Appropriate Category Approaches
We very much hope you will consider attending our live event organised by Comensura and linked to our new briefing paper. The title is Understanding […]