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PLEASE TELL ME: Why buys research cobbled together by “researchers” who don’t have a clue as to what they’re researching?

This press release just went live yesterday: “Sourcing and Procurement Operation Software Industry Future Trends Analysis” which announced a new “Sourcing and Procurement Operation Software market” research report from Orbis that opened with obvious (that we are a pivotal sector), stated a few more obvious facts around software delivery methods (could-based, traditional ASP based), broad […]

Dear Fellow Independent Consultants: How Can We Dispel the PROCUREMENT STINK!

Hopefully you know by now what the doctor is talking about, but if not, as per the Sourcing Innovation article from two months ago, PROCUREMENT STINKS and we should not deny it anymore. In a nutshell, and just is just the tip of the garbage heap: Case studies are ranker than expired fish in a […]

GlobalTrade Tackled Procurement 2024 Before McKinsey, But Their Suggestions Weren’t that Innovative, Part II

As per Part 1, the doctor ignored this article over on GlobalTrade Magazine on 10 Innovative Approaches to Enhance Procurement Efficiency in 2024 because the approaches weren’t all that innovative, and the article, while professionally written, clearly wasn’t written by a Procurement Professional, as most of the recommendations were so basic even Chat-GPT could likely […]

DEAR ENTERPRISE PROCUREMENT SOFTWARE BUYER: THERE ARE NO FREE RFPs!

This shouldn’t have to be said (again), but apparently it does since Zip has relaunched the FREE RFP madness in Source-to-Pay (that began in 2006 when Procuri first aggressively launched the Sourcing, Supplier Management, Contract Management, and Spend Analysis RFPs) with an RFP that is intake heavy, orchestrate light, process deficient, and, like many RFPs […]