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Whether you're shopping for a Procurement software upgrade, or navigating the landscape for the first time - the process can quickly grow overwhelming. Identifying a transparent, competitive software provider could make all the difference in realizing years of strategic value. Selecting the wrong provider, on the other hand, could hurt [...]

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This week, Canada became just the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana use. The move fulfills a campaign promise made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau back in 2015 and represents a watershed moment for the burgeoning cannabis industry. Canadians - and probably a few tourists - were so [...]

Categories: Best Practice, Change Management, Guest Post, Professional ServicesTags: L2, Process & Best PracticeSpend Matters welcomes this guest post from Gary Weiss, Flash Global's vice president of pricing, procurement and inventory management. If your company were a human who could sit down and take a personality test, how would it score? [...]

What do early payment discounts and the ‘Time Value of Money' have to do with one another? In a word, everything. If you're in Accounts Payable (“AP”) or P2P, you may have never associated one with the other. But they are very much intertwined in the entire ePayables process. In [...]

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Sue Welch of Bamboo Rose discusses how procurement chiefs should look to be mitigating risk at this uncertain time [...]

Earlier this week, Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), the San Francisco-based spend management solutions provider, informed us that it has purchased Cincinnati-based Aquiire, the real-time procure-to-pay (P2P) and supplier management solution provider (formerly known as Vinimaya) for an undisclosed sum. Ardent Partners analysts took a briefing with the Coupa team late [...]

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As we stated yesterday, we're all zombies. Procurement is continuing along in the most undead fashion possible, going through the same motions day after day like a clockwork automaton of the 19th century. The platforms that the visionary consulting firms and platform providers were supposed to provide us by 2020 [...]

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If you've been keeping up to date on our ongoing blog series, you know why we're all zombies. The reason, simply put, is that, instead of Procurement recognizing that it was supposed to be dead and buried two years ago, and maybe rising from the ashes, it has instead continued [...]

In the second part of this blog series, Omer Abdullah says procurement chiefs who wish to be truly progressive need to embrace innovation and the digital revolution [...]

As a procurement professional I embarked into the task of checking out what´s new on the technology front. Most of latest articles, blog post and so on talked about AI (artificial Intelligence). There are different types of AI for different task. The main idea is to replicate human intelligence with [...]

The Twin Arenas of Procurement Excellence The procurement profession has long striven for excellence to increase its role and stature within the organization. Herein, we provide insight into ‘The Twin Arenas of Procurement Excellence. Our framework to achieve leadership in procurement and supply management. Procurement Excellence – Does excellence matter? Excellence is no [...]

Planning Your Procurement University or Academy Planning Your Procurement University or Academy? We offer guidance around three critical pillars for sustaining a Procurement University as a viable part of your business. 1. Strategy Setting The process of setting a strategy helps you to remain true to your values and on-track to achieve your [...]

Some common themes from ISM and Procurement Leaders. Last week I had the pleasure of sitting in on some great presentations at the Procurement Leaders World Procurement Congress 18 in London, as well as attending the Institute for Supply Management ISM2018 in Nashville, TN the week before. They provided the [...]

Instead of “recycle, reuse, retread” let's talk about a reboot. Memorization is a frontage road: It runs parallel to the best parts of learning, never intersecting. It's a detour around all the action, a way of knowing without learning, of answering without understanding.” — Ben Orlin, “When Memorization Gets in [...]

The Blog's First Banner May 2007 It is hard to believe that this blog was launched 11 years ago today. It doesn't seem that long of a period, yet in many ways, it feels like a lifetime (in a good sense). From the early days when I wondered if I would [...]

It is a pretty straightforward question; should procurement buy IT? One would think that the answer would also be relatively straightforward. But it isn't. Featuring a panel of international industry experts, this after-hours discussion presents some thought-provoking insights into what role procurement should play when it comes to making IT acquisitions. Click the [...]

With the intention of giving a better service as a functional department of procurement, I went on asking my stakeholders several questions. Many on the quality of our services, time frames, results on benefits, etc. Got the expected answers that matched pretty well with our KPI´s and what we aimed [...]

Data and intelligence holds the key to procurement moving from the past to the real time and beyond There is no doubting the fact that technology is evolving at an ever faster rate, meaning that the possibilities to analyse and understand business performance is also increasing and is opening up all [...]

It's hard to argue that we are not living in some uncertain economic and political times, perhaps best demonstrated right now in the UK and US, among other nations. [...]