Sourcing & Procurement Solutions

Roland Berger released an new version of a bi-annual study “CPO Agenda” that I would recommend reading if you want to better understand the top Procurement challenges in your industry. It is a very …

The Scottish Governement has been developping for years a comprehensive Purchasing toolkit and a full suite of  Procurement tools & templates in order to streamline its Sourcing and Procurement …

In the course of my 15+ years in Sourcing & Procurement, based on my personal experience as well as leveraging market analysts reports, I came to the point of …

All of us in Sourcing and Procurement would agree: Analytics are great and required for top Performance . However, when talking of Procurement Analytics Maturity, many companies I’ve worked for believe …

Capgemini issued in 2013 their annual global CPO survey, focused on Procurement digitalization. Quite a good one to read. You’ll learn that: Procurement organizations are augmenting their practices with …

GEP, the company who’s mission is “to provide customers the most creative, most effective and highest value end-to-end procurement and supply chain solutions” , just released a white paper …

You can segment Spend Content in 3 main buckets: Simple catalogs, Good & Services and Contract driven Content Simple Catalogs : Many small value transactions Lists of items with …

Where to start is always the question, for those who are initiating their journey or for those who are on their way and working on continuous improvement. This post shall help you to …

On average an organization/enterprise has: More than 3,000 indirect suppliers Not more than 250 catalogs available online through procurement application Not more than 50% of influenceable indirect spend under …

Working on many different Business cases every year, I noticed a general trend in getting a grip on tail spend management. The main issue is always the same and in a …