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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...

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Where’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...

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ERP 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...

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Managing 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...

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How 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...

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Star 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...

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What 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,...

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‘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...

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‘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,...

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Mining 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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