Today we welcome another guest post from Brian Seipel a Procurement Consultant at Source One Management Services focused on helping corporations understand their spend profile and develop actionable strategies for cost reduction and supplier relationship management. Brian has a lot of real-world project experience in sourcing, and brings some unique insight on the topic. Nobody […]
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been laying the foundations for the significant changes coming in the upcoming Q2 release of Spend Matters Solution Map, with the new common-foundations and the Sourcing, Supplier Management, and Analytics Maps designed by yours truly, the doctor of Sourcing Innovation. While the biggest change was the introduction of […]
The Global Sourceror’s Song I am the very model of a modern Global Sourceror, With information analytic, subjective, and objector, I know the rights of charter, and I quote the rates historical From Vancouver to Singapore, in order categorical; I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the lin’r and quadratical, […]
One of the best presentations at Ivalua Now Paris last week (which the doctor summarized in a post over on Spend Matters UK on how the conference was “A Huge Success and a Testament to their growth”) was Duncan Jones’ presentation on Successful Procurement Transformation that summarized a recent survey on enabling smarter procurement that […]
A decade ago we ran a piece on The Value of Market Intelligence in a Down Economy because it was a down economy near the end of last decade and many organizations were overlooking the importance of market intelligence at a time when it was needed most. (Because, when times get tough, organizations always cut […]