So on the one day of the year when they should be making the joke, I’m going to reveal it. The vast majority of vendors who claim “AI”, where they want you to think “AI” stands for Artificial Intelligence, have no “AI” in that context, and many don’t even have anything close. A few may […]
In our previous article, we asked if you could solve the modern compliance challenge, and, more specifically if you could do it with Ecovadis. This is because compliance has morphed over the past few years from insuring you weren’t doing any illegal trading and simply satisfying the tax man (and import/export compliance is essentially just […]
It seems the list gets longer every year as those looking for a quick-fix try to take shortcuts to solving their problem that involve pushing those problems to third parties who are even less competent to solve them. A few years ago we said the key for a successful supply management center of excellence was […]
In previous posts, we took a deep dive into e-Sourcing (Part I and Part II), e-Auctions (Part I and Part II), and Optimization (Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV). But in this series we are diving into spend analysis. And this time we’re taking the vertical torpedo to the bottom of the […]
As per our economic damnation post, sometimes it is not only the case that bigger is not better, but also that bigger takes a bigger bite out of the limited pot that you have to work with. To point this out, we reviewed two of the big examples of anti-scale that are often mistaken for […]