Spend Management Lessons from the UK
By Alan Dowless U.S. federal procurement teams – as discussed in our last post – have come under immense scrutiny for failing to provide transparency into government spending. While this situation has...
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Risk Management in the Supply Chain: Reputational Risk
By Mickey North Rizza In many organisations, procurement is beginning to see risk as one of their responsibilities, second only to savings. With Risk Management so high on procurement's agenda, we've...
View Article2015 is Easier to Navigate with Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Strategic...
By: Mickey North Rizza As a 2015 present to businesses globally, Gartner has published their 2015 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites. The ‘MQ’ as it is affectionately known, is...
View ArticleModernizing Public Sector Procurement
By: Dan Warn Public sector procurement in North America is ready for massive change. Are you? Ontario recently implemented a modernized and streamlined procurement process that is open, fair, and most...
View Article4 New Year Predictions for Procurement Technology
By: Mickey North Rizza 2015 is right around the corner, and with a new year comes fresh perspectives and insight into what the coming year has in store. My take: Skyrocketing customer expectations...
View ArticleProcurement’s holiday wish list
By: Mickey North Rizza With the holidays right around the corner, your wish list has probably been baked for weeks now. But have you even started your work-wish list yet? I’ve spoken with countless...
View ArticleBest Practices for Government Procurement
By: Dan Warn Every procurement executive wants to deliver savings, effectively manage strategic supplier relationships, and accelerate procurement cycles- all while proving their value to both...
View ArticleManaging Your Supply Chain in the Face of Multi-Channel Retailing
By: Mickey North Rizza Lately, the retail landscape has been evolving so rapidly that it seems as though markets can barely get used to one way of selling, when a whole new form of commerce erupts. Cue...
View ArticleWhat if Billy Beane Was a CPO?
Procurement lessons from Moneyball By Paul Martyn, VP of Supply Strategy at BravoSolution For starters, he probably wouldn’t be as famous as he is today. That’s just the reality when comparing Major...
View ArticleGet On the Same Page with External Stakeholders
This is the second blog in our new series called “Get on the Same Page” where we discuss tips, techniques and benefits of better aligning with the groups of people that procurement comes into contact...
View ArticleCPO Seminar: 8 Takeaways for Public-Sector Procurement Transformation
By Alan Dowless Our last two posts looked at the spend management dilemma facing the U.S. government and how the UK Government Procurement Service tackled a similar challenge of their own. The main...
View ArticleSpend Management Lessons from the UK
By Alan Dowless U.S. federal procurement teams – as discussed in our last post – have come under immense scrutiny for failing to provide transparency into government spending. While this situation has...
View ArticleSpending Transparency: Government Missing $619B!
By Alan Dowless Know who you’re paying, how much and for what. It’s one of the most basic principles of procurement. And if you’re in the public sector, be transparent. While most government...
View ArticleStop, Listen and Learn: Improving Relationships with Suppliers and Stakeholders
Have you heard the phrase “it’s just business” tossed around? Every time that I hear someone say that, it makes me pause. What does that even mean these days? That we can be rude, burn bridges, worry...
View ArticleThe Secrets to Becoming a Highly Effective Procurement Team
Most procurement teams want to impact operating margin, returns and earnings-per-share, but very few (less than 7%) have the resources and plan in place to do it. Steal a page from the winning...
View ArticleExecutives: Do You Have the Right Resources?
Resources are the lifeline of our business and work places. Technology, talent and processes are all resources and directly influence the outcome or performance achieved. Each has its own intelligence,...
View ArticleTechnology and The Ripple Effect
You do your day-to-day job and at some point it can become mundane, if not routine; you have become a master of the process. Then something happens to change it up a bit – perhaps a new employee,...
View ArticlePartner or Vendor?
When I was a practitioner, one of my former companies hated the word “vendors” to discuss suppliers so much that if you used it, you were asked what circus vendor you meant (vendors were considered...
View ArticleTransforming Public Sector Procurement: Two Secrets of Success
By Dan Warn Public sector procurement in North America is undergoing massive change for the first time in decades, as government procurement teams aim to improve efficiency, supplier participation and...
View ArticleDDVN and the Tale of Two Cities: Barcelona and Philadelphia
Problems arise every day in every community world-wide. Problems such as road surface hazards, parking availability, substance abuse, neighborhood surveillance and prisoner re-entry are just some of...
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