the doctor was recently asked if an organization needs a dedicated Sourcing Spend Analytics solution if the organization already has a generic BI tool that sits on top of its ERP or data warehouse. Well, while the answer is No in theory, it’s rarely No in practice. This is because even if the generic platform […]
Last year, about this time, we wrote a piece on Supply Market Intelligence and how it was Harder Than it Looks because there are a number of sources that might yield intelligence, including: Suppliers, Internal Sources, such as internal stakeholders performance reports SRM programs External Sources, such as news feeds and alerts price index forecasts […]
In yesterday’s post, we referenced a post from six years ago where we commented on a piece by the Supply Chain Shaman who believed we had reached the supply chain plateau. And while we do not agree that the plateau has been reached, despite the extensive objective analysis of balance sheets, we certainly agreed that […]
If you are an outside observer of the S2P space, like an enterprise software analyst that covers the more traditional enterprise spaces like (ERP, AP, CRM, etc. ), you might wonder how in this day and age a startup that just offers e-RFX, e-Auction, and basic SIM — technology that has been around for 20 […]
Yesterday SI featured a guest post from Brian Seipel who advised you to Stop Paying for More Analysis than You Need because, simply put, a lot of analytics effort and reports yield little to no return. As Brian expertly noted, Sometimes 80% classification at the transactional level is enough Especially if you can get 95%+ […]