Need a strong Supplier Management Solution? Maybe you should get one made of Graphite …

Or at least virtual graphite … which was essentially the goal of the founders of GraphiteConnect when they launched the company five years ago in an effort to modernize supplier onboarding with a solution that would stand the test of time and solve many of the problems they encountered leading purchasing in their lost jobs […]

Brooklyn Solutions: An Answer to Your Third Party Compliance Management Challenges!

In our last article, we introduced you to the oft-overlooked area of Third Party Compliance Management which is not adequately addressed in the majority of Third Party Risk Management solutions, despite beliefs to the contrary. And those of you who pay attention probably realized that in addition to telling you about the challenge, we were […]

Three Critical Elements of a Good Procurement Contract

We’ve been seeing quite a few articles lately popping up randomly on LinkedIn, Procurement searches, newsletters, etc. around Procurement Contracting, and, as you’ve probably guessed, we’ve noticed that most of them aren’t great. Not to say they’re bad, they’re not, but usually they’re finely focussed on core clauses that should be in there to keep […]

SupplHi – A Best of Breed Supplier Management Platform for Industrial MRO

In a recent article, we noted that It Does Not Matter Where You Start, You End with BoB in SXM, and if you in the business of industrial MRO, it’s likely that your BoB will be SupplHi. SupplHi is one of the broadest, and deepest, solutions we’ve seen for Industrial MRO (and Direct in general, […]

AnyData: Your Mid-Market BoB Analytics Solution for Opportunity Identification, Compliance Tracking, and Associated Project Management

AnyData, which we first covered on Sourcing Innovation back in 2017 (in AnyData: Another Analytics Arriviste from Across the Atlantic), has matured significantly since 2017, especially with its addition of auto-rule generation using AI in 2020 (as chronicled in AnyData, making spend analytics accessible by anyone! [Or, ‘The mid-market analytics quandary’]) over on the Spend […]