What Type of CPO Would Donald Trump Be?
Categories: Commentary, Friday Rant, Procurement, Spend HumorTags: Incendiary Tidbits, L1There’s been an awful lot of debate among both liberals and conservatives on what type of president Donald Trump...
View ArticleWhere’s the Beef? The Economic Ravings of an Insatiable Statistical Lunatic
Categories: Commodities, Friday Rant, Spend HumorTags: Incendiary Tidbits, L1Full disclosure: I am a below-average consumer of beef. But the continuing increases in beef prices and the recent change in...
View ArticleERP or Best-of-Breed (BoB)? Here’s How to Quickly Settle That Whole Thing
Categories: ERP, Procurement Systems & Architecture, Spend HumorTags: Process and Best PracticeEven though Spend Matters declared the "ERP vs. Best-of-Breed" debate dead way back in 2014, the issue...
View ArticleManaging Your Tail Spend on Amazon Prime Day (Good Luck)
Categories: Spend HumorTags: General News, Spend ManagementAccording to a recent study, about 47% of organizations' total spend is unmanaged. Zycus surveyed 725 procurement leaders and found that even...
View ArticleHow Do Procurement People Buy Flowers? Or, Using Procurement Smarts in...
Categories: Cost Management, Procurement, Spend HumorTags: Incendiary Tidbits, L1Procurement is basically shopping with a strong emphasis on value. Does that mean procurement people also better...
View ArticleStar Wars Mouse Pads and a Golden Pencil: What’s the Strangest Purchase...
Categories: eProcurement / Procurement, Procurement, Spend HumorTags: Incendiary Tidbits, L1Earlier this week, I moderated a webinar with Procurify customer Lynn Gabriel, COO of Mainstream Fiber...
View ArticleWhat Procurement’s Talking About at the Thanksgiving Table This Year
Categories: Commentary, Procurement, Spend HumorTags: Incendiary Tidbits, L2Spend Matters has very special powers. We were able to travel into the future and become a fly on the dining room wall,...
View Article‘I Have Plenty of Stories’— Roy Anderson Details Procurement’s Digital Roots...
Categories: Change Management, E-Sourcing, eProcurement / Procurement, Innovation, Procurement Strategy & Planning, Spend Humor, Talent Management, TechnologyTags: L1, Process and Best...
View Article‘More people in the tools, lower risk, faster processing, better results’—...
Categories: E-Sourcing, eProcurement / Procurement, Market Intelligence, Procurement Systems & Architecture, Spend Humor, Supply Chain Management, Supply Risk, Tail Spend, TechnologyTags: L1,...
View ArticleMining a new type of ‘less conventional’ Spend Matters procurement intelligence
Categories: Industry Analysts, Market Intelligence, Procurement, Spend HumorTags: Industry Analysts, Procurement intelligenceOur readers will be aware of the incredible breadth of content that Spend...
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