Procurement Management

As a result of the coronavirus outbreak, people have become like squirrels. Scared that their Government is, if it hasn’t already, going to implement a military style “total lockdown” to …

It seems as though procurement has been anticipating the arrival of 2020 since the minute the ‘Y2K’ buzz wore off. Predictions and research, webinars and report titles… ‘Procurement 2020’ has …

“Change of this magnitude is hard. You know you’re on to something when so much pressure builds up.” – David Marcus, Co-creator of Libra on Twitter. There has been a …

“Some executives used to think of procurement as the place you send staff away in order to never see them again.” ~ Carlos Mena, Remko van Hoek, Martin Christopher, Leading …

Some procurement and supply chain trends are so pervasive that it is easy to stop questioning the logic behind them. The benefits associated with small suppliers is a perfect example. …

On March 6th, McDonald’s announced the decision to start using fresh beef in the Quarter Pounder at all locations in the contiguous United States. Whether this move by the world’s …

Collecting data is part of what makes the big players like Google and Facebook so successful. The amount of time that users spend on Facebook declined by 50 million hours …

In procurement, we often discuss how buyer expectations relate to the buying experiences they have as individual online shoppers. We need to make eProcurement technology more intuitive, make procurement processes …

On March 6, the world was presented with an interesting new alliance to consider between Salesforce’s Einstein and IBM’s Watson. The ‘global strategic partnership’ will bring together Salesforce’s customer relationship data …

In 1897, an eight-year old girl named Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the Editor of the New York Sun, a prominent New York City newspaper of the time. She …