John Mavriyannakis is a Senior Manager at Deloitte Canada and the Practice Leader in Sourcing, Procurement, and Settlement who recently gave a presentation on Empowering Modern Procurement as part of the Coupa One Vision Roadshow in Toronto. Through its regular CPO Surveys, CFO Surveys, and its Source-to-Procure experience across 1000+ projects for 300+ clients, which […]
The last six posts in the series have explored in detail Ariba’s recently released Vision 2020 – The Future of Procurement report, which was intended to define what the Procurement function is going to look like in 2020. While a valiant effort, the report doesn’t live up to SI’s expecations, which only gives it a […]
the doctor has to stop looking at headlines, especially those on surveys of Procurement Leaders. Because there is no way that 14% of companies have adequate talent to meet future Procurement Needs. Why? Because there’s no way that 14% of companies have adequate talent to meet current Procurement Needs. Adding this survey result from Gartner […]
In the beginning, there really wasn’t much of a Procurement function. When someone needed something, they either went to the local buyer (who was either the office manager or the designated purchaser) or the local boss and got permission to buy it themselves if it was small. Assuming it was large enough, then it would […]
I asked LOLCat if, in the end, our series on the “future” of Procurement was worth the effort. However, he side-stepped the question and just told me that, no matter how horrendous they are, never, ever, flush analyst reports of any kind down the loo, no matter how tempted you may be to use them […]