Tag: Organisation

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 …

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 …

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 …

If you are in the exciting process of  setting up your Journey for a Best in Class Purchasing organisation , you’ll need a Vision, a structured Approach and right Priorities, namely a Sourcing & …

Managing Procurement Performance is of course a critical process in any best in class organisation. Dashboard is a very interesting component of this process as its a graphical and easy …

Scanmarket is a small eSourcing software company, where I have some friends but no shares and interest, providing easy to use spend analysis, RFX and contract mgmt automation tools.  They are inviting any organisation to …

One of your Business-Unit needs a new service and they are considering delivering it partially because there are some capabilities they don’t have, so they need your help but …

When having to shape a ‘TO-BE-best-in-class’ Procurement organisation, right sizing the organisation is one of the first matter that comes to the table and that needs an answer. Let me share my experience …

Non-Core Purchasing (i.e. Purchasing non directly related to the end-product and not manageable through a full automated MRP system) has from the very start be appreciated as a low-value contributor …

According to latest Xchanging survey, based on views from circa 200 sourcing and procurement decision-makers from across the European manufacturing industry, adoption  of external outsourcing of Procurement in Europe …