- 1. The Market Speaks: Procurement Practitioner Requirements and the Tech Vendor Response
- (News)
- ... need for more comprehensive supplier management capabilities, such as supplier discovery, supplier information management, supplier performance management, supplier quality management, supplier relationship ...
- 2. Apply Data Science to Enhance Your Supplier Relations
- (Retail)
- ... enabling them to make decisions based on timely data. Decisions such as spending, supplier management and procurement strategies become highly efficient with the availability of such information. Due to ...
- 3. Blockchain and the Supply Chain
- (News)
- The hot technology topic of the year is blockchain. It's a bit complicated to explain, but Taras Berezowsky on the Spend Matters site not only provides a handy primer on the subject but also gives us a ...
- 4. P2P Network Options
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- In the first of a series on supplier networks, Xavier Olivera reviews the capabilities that need to be mixed and matched by participants. He takes us through the P2P process and identifies decisions ...
- 5. History of Procurement Software
- (News)
- Jason Busch takes an ambitious shot at tracing the history of procurement technology in a recent piece on the Spend Matters site. It's a great start at identifying how procurement has grown up along with ...
- 6. Analyzing Procurement Technology
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- On the Spend Matters site, Jason Busch applies a tool called the 5 Forces Diagram to analyze procurement technology.It's an interesting exercise that helps a user think about a particular company, process, ...
- 7. WalMart's Newest Supplier Challenge
- (News)
- Any supplier who does business with WalMart knows it can be, in a word, challenging. With the pressures facing the world's largest retailer from all sides, its suppliers may feel a little more pain.On ...
- 8. Open Text Notes
- (News)
- Bob Ferrari from Supply Chain Matters recently attended the Open Text analyst event and gleaned a lot of interesting information about the direction B2B technology is heading.Open Text (formerly GXS, which ...
- 9. Uncovering Spend Management Opportunities
- (News)
- Managing supplier spend is at the core of the procurement function. The more information available to management to help them perform, the better.In a guest article on the Spend Matters site, Mickey North ...
- 10. Supplier Compliance Problems
- (News)
- Virtually everyone has supplier compliance programs, according to recent research by MetricStream. Those important programs, though, have non-compliance problems, many of which are the result of a lack ...
- 11. Justifying a Supply Chain Project
- (News)
- Justifying a new supply chain project can be rough. The more data the better, as they say, but you really need to make sure it's meaningful.Pierre Mitchell, on the Spend Matters site, looks at how numbers ...
- 12. The Strategy of Spend
- (News)
- Is there a magic algorithm to decide from which suppliers to source specific products and categories? Not according to Rick Long, in a guest blog on the Spend Matters site.Different approaches produce ...
- 13. Big Data and Purchasing
- (News)
- ... Center site, Matthew McGovern looks at several ways that Big Data can be used to attack common problems in procurement and supplier management.It's good to get a little dose of reality on this topic. Check ...
- 14. Leave Sourcing to BOB?
- (News)
- It's one of those timeless questions: best of breed, or ERP? At one point, ERP had the upper hand, but recent analysis may be pointing in another direction.Supply chain practitioners involved in sourcing ...
- 15. A Vision for Supplier Management
- (News)
- Declan Kearney presents an outline for a national supplier management strategy in a recent article on the Procurement Leaders site.Taking advantage of advances in technology, collaboraton, metrics, and ...
- 16. Kiss the Frog
- (News)
- Jason Busch from Spend Matters sat in on a panel discussion with several procurement leaders, and the 'kissing the frog' topic was discussed. No, it's not what you think....Read Jason's account of how ...
- 17. More on Microsoft-Hubwoo
- (News)
- We posted an article yesterday about the Microsoft-Hubwoo partnership. In a followup column, Jason Busch at Spend Matters discusses the state of mid-range ERPs for purchasing and suppy management.There ...
- 18. Intuit's Futur
- (News)
- Jason Busch, on the Spend Matters site, reviews where Intuit stands in their plans for additional service offerings.Their partnerships are providing a hint on direction. As usual, Jason has a good handle ...
- 19. Invest in Supplier Management
- (News)
- There's an awful amount of buzz going on, and investment in, social media by corporations. Is that a wise use of resources?On the Spend Matters site, Jason Busch argues that spending money on the basics ...
- 20. SIM Challenges
- (News)
- In a two-part (so far) series on the Spend Matters site, Pierre Mitchell discusses the challenges and opportunities of Supplier Information Management.A lot of work is needed in this arena to leverage ...
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