We’re catching up on our reading over the quieter summer period and an article from Giles Breault on LinkedIn is worth highlighting. Breault and Sammy […]
Giles Breault on the Procurement Digital Roadmap – Think Tank Gets to Grip with Technology
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Peter Smith at eWorld – How Procurement Can Be a Force for Change
eWorld is fast approaching – February 28th to be exact. And among the prestigious speakers and stimulating topics, this year we are treated to a […]
Future Purchasing on the Benefits of Effective Category Management
We’ve featured the excellent Future Purchasing Category Management report here previously, titled "Collaborating for Category Management Success - Bridging the Performance and Value Gap". The […]
Negotiation Advice – REALLY Listen, Think, Respond
Yesterday we talked about the importance of listening in the context of negotiation. That was the number one piece of advice from my friend Alan […]
Listening – The Under-Rated Negotiation Skill
We mentioned on Friday our lunch with Alan Thomson, an old friend and an experienced sales director, who has just left negotiation training firm, the […]
Weather-Related Supply Chain Risk – An (Icy) Blast From The Past
Through August, we’re going to be running some of our “greatest hits” from what is almost seven years of Spend Matters UK/Europe. We’ll keep bringing […]
How Supply Chain Professionals and Their Suppliers Can Deal with the Implications of Brexit (Part 2)
Continuing our guest post from Richard Neale, Director of EMEA Marketing, at business intelligence firm Birst, an Infor company. In part 1, I looked at how companies […]
Kristian Saksida, Solvay CPO – Keynote at ProcureCon Europe
We will be featuring the highlights from the recent ProcureCon Berlin event here over the next couple of weeks. We will start today with “Lessons […]
Lessons For Procurement From The Music Licensing World
We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Big Sync and the fascinating business of music licensing and more widely how brands are using music […]
Implementing Procurement Efficiency / Cost Reduction Programmes – Demand Management
As we said here, we are in a period of considerable economic and political uncertainty for many businesses and indeed public sector organisations too. Uncertainty […]
Quick Wins for the New Procurement Leader – Download Our Paper Now
We recently published a briefing paper titled Quick Wins for the New Procurement Leader – sponsored by the good people at BravoSolution. It is based […]
Quick Wins for the New Procurement Leader
This is one of those useful, practical, sound advice papers that we believe every Procurement leader should have on their virtual shelf. It follows the […]