Have you ever wondered what the buy-side REALLY thinks? Do you struggle to understand their true challenges? Advisors, consultants, service and solution providers, please join your peers in this...
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Setting the Sourcing, Contract Management and Supplier Management Table – Dining with Procurement, Not with IT
Strategic Sourcing as we know it is dead. The new Strategic Sourcing is less bureaucratic, more nimble, more practical and more customer service-focused. Purchasing consistently struggles to earn...
Supplier diversity or diversity in contracting are programs that can be either mandatory (i.e., requirement to fulfill state or federal contracts) or voluntary (i.e., procurement/social...
Resource Origin: Spend Matters
"Improving procurement across indirect services categories offers significant opportunities for savings. However, data, tools and capability must be carefully...
Join Spend Matters for a tour of procurement technology. You will journey through platform vs. niche technologies across the source-to-pay spectrum and gain insight into how and why procurement...
Original Source: Spend Matters
"I'm probably going to upset a few people here...so I'll make my excuses first. I believe behavioural skills are key to effective procurement. I even...
"Another in our series, designed to provoke and challenge, where we de-bunk great procurement myths
I'm probably going to upset a few people here...so I'll make my excuses first. I believe...