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When I was hired in Procurement there were certain people who would lay bare our spend anyway they could by pouring their derision upon anything we bought exposing every weakness however painfully skilled it was wrought But among us it was well known that when they went home at night they too were paralyzed with […]
Without contract management, everyone is gonna need a bigger briefcase …
Over on Commitment Matters, Tim Cummins authored a post on The Guilty Secret of Contract Management Software where he attempted to explain the disappointing uptake in contract management software. It was pretty good, and he was right in that the uptake is not simply down to a reluctance to buy and due to a failure […]
A recent article in Material Handling Management provided a good overview of why “contract management is a critical competitive advantage” for today’s supply chain centric organizations. When you consider that a typical fortune 1000 company cannot locate over 10% of its 20,000 to 40,000 active contracts at any given time, the importance of a good […]