Procurement Insights

APRIL 1, 2025

sourcing, supplier management, invoicing). Unlike end-to-end Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms (e.g., Coupa), which often include broad, underutilized features (30-40% non-usage estimate), a decentralized, modular approach focuses on deploying best-in-class solutions for specific functions (e.g.,

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Procurement Insights

MARCH 1, 2024

In my fall 2004 analyses of a study on the use of web-based applications, I made the following observation: It is my position that a true centralization of procurement objectives requires a decentralized architecture that is based on the real-world operating attributes of all transactional stakeholders, starting at the local or regional level.

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The Network Effect

JANUARY 2, 2018

Managing Upward: A One Day Workshop for Experienced Product Managers. This interactive workshop on managing upward will help product managers improve their understanding and skills for working (upward) with their executives. Perennial topics include: Why managing upward is an essential product management skill.

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HICX

MAY 9, 2024

HICX Founded: 2004 Location: San Francisco, US CEO: Costas Xyloyiannis HICX specialises in helping organisations optimise their supplier management processes, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and transparency throughout the supplier lifecycle. See Procurement Mag’s list

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 10, 2024

Elevating the Transport Manager The increasing recognition of the supply chain’s impact on the bottom line has elevated the role of transport managers. Logistics KPI Dashboard is an essential tool for Logistics & Supply Chain Managers. International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 28(6), 316-332.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 16, 2024

Acres of Diamonds: The Value of Effectively Managing Low-Dollar, High Transactional Volume Spend – fall 2004.)” In other words, your organization gains control of it’s spend environment by relinquishing centralized functional control in favor of operational efficiencies on the front lines.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 15, 2013

Managing End-to-End Supply Chain Security Like A Pro. To get quick overview of some existing security programs, Ive gathered more information for the article called " Security Program as Part of Efficient Supply Chain Management " by Hintsa and Hameri 2009 as below, 1) C-TPAT Program: a program initiated by U.S. Case Studies.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But while the term ESG was first coined in 2004 by the United Nations Global Compact, the concept has been around for much longer. 1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions.

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HICX

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

HICX , a supplier experience management platform designed to give companies visibility into their supply chain, has raised $30 million in a round of funding led by U.S. private equity firm Wavecrest Growth Partners and Canada’s Espresso Capital. The funding constituted a mixture of $22 million equity and $8 million in debt.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 27, 2024

In the test case, a major public sector organization realized a 23% cost of goods savings annually over a period of several years while simultaneously reducing the number of buyers required to manage the contract to 3 from an original 23. Delivery performance and product quality also improved dramatically.)” ” 30

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Procurement Heads

AUGUST 11, 2022

It was back in 2004 in Romania – I am Romanian – and at the time I was working as a Marketing Assistant at British American Tobacco. They were looking for a Global Procurement Transformation Manager to lead one of their pilots and implement a procurement operating model globally. Also, to eradicate racism.

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SCMDOJO

AUGUST 16, 2023

[Read More: Rivian: Navigating Supply Chain and Operational Challenges and Embracing Growth ] Walmart’s Supply Chain: Integrated Supply Chain Success Data-Driven Success Factors In the realm of modern supply chain management, data-driven strategies play a pivotal role in enhancing a company’s competitiveness.

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Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This is one of the main reasons that initiatives in which change or compliance management is a core element fail 85% of the time. As Cisco’s Senior Director, Supply Chain Management Kin Ching “K.C.” World Trade Magazine’s Neil Shister Cisco’s Senior Director, Supply Chain Management Kin Ching “K.C.”

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Supply Chain Opz

APRIL 16, 2015

Triple-A Supply Chain In 2004, Professor Hau Lee of Stanford University published the article titled " The Triple-A Supply Chain " in Harvard Business Review. Nokia who had a contingency plan managed to locate 2 new suppliers and the new lead-time was only 5 days. Leagility In 1999, Naylor et al.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 18, 2024

To which I received the following answer: “As of recent surveys, around 70-80% of businesses still use spreadsheets in some capacity for tasks like budgeting, data analysis, and project management. In hindsight, Microsoft’s June 2004 play for SAP makes even more sense now, than it did back then.

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Let's Talk Supply Chain

JULY 27, 2022

While the most chaotic health pandemic in modern memory hasn’t helped supply chain managers, the ongoing labor shortage is one of the major factors that continues fueling the ongoing waves of delays, limitations, and stock-outs. Since then, I have developed AI models for a spend visbility application (2004 – 2005).

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Since 2004 the city of Wuhan, at the center of the outbreak and in lockdown since January 23, has been a focal point of the Rise of Central China Plan, making it one of the country’s key inland hubs for advanced manufacturing. Flexible and holistic supply management will be key. .

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When it comes to modern IT infrastructure, the role of Kubernetes —the open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, management and scaling of containerized software applications (apps) and services—can’t be underestimated. ” The Borg name fit the Google project well.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Acres of Diamonds: The Value of Effectively Managing Low-Dollar, High Transactional Volume Spend – fall 2004.)” In other words, your organization gains control of it’s spend environment by relinquishing centralized functional control in favor of operational efficiencies on the front lines.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This interview is with Raymon Krishnan, President of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society. Throughout much of my career I have been involved with the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society and currently serve as President. In the last few years I have been working in the policy advocacy space globally.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 7, 2013

Lee 2004 had a different opinion. 10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time. Noob Guide to Supply Chain Management Definition. 10 Inventions that Revolutionized Supply Chain Management. The idea is to try to excel at 2 strategies (lean/agile) at once. Triple-A Supply Chain. A Case Study.

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The Good Spending

MAY 13, 2024

Lorenzo, iSoft's flagship software system, would be "available from early 2004." When the contracts are finished, inadequate provisions are made to manage the systems in the future. Poor program management? Contract management is another miserable story. Risk management? Change management? Cost control?

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Planergy

JULY 14, 2022

How better management in AP can give you better flexibility for cash flow management. Read Only – 1990 – 2004 We owe the web as we know it to Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist who was working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. occurred between 1990 and 2004. Read-Write – 2004 – Present Web 2.0

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

From the information technology perspective, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) get the highest attention. One of the earliest article about CRM was named " Managing the Change from Marketing Planning to Customer Relationship Management " by Merlin Stone, Nell Woodcock and Muriel Wilson (1996).

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Claritum

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Bath, UK (December 18th, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that Canon Business Services has extended their contract with Claritum for a further 3 years. Supporting customisable artwork templates, requests for quote, real time order tracking and management information dashboards.

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Claritum

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Bath, UK (December 18th, 2019) – Claritum, a provider of cloud based spend management solutions, today announced that Canon Business Services has extended their contract with Claritum for a further 3 years. Supporting customisable artwork templates, requests for quote, real time order tracking and management information dashboards.

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 28, 2013

Anyway, the most widely cited maturity model is the work named " The development of a supply chain management process maturity model using the concepts of business process orientation " from McCormack and Lockamy III in 2004. 10 Greatest Supply Chain Management Books of All Time. Noob Guide to Supply Chain Management Definition.

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 15, 2018

So we decide to collect the new data as below, - First, we gather the list of Amazon Top 100 customer service, customer experience, sales management, and public relations. We have some of our favorite books we can recommend, but we would like to compare them with top-notch books. Then, we remove the duplicate entries from our list.

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Positive Purchasing

MARCH 10, 2022

That can’t just come from a category manager talking to an account manager – it needs to be a consistent message from the leadership of the buying organization that involves supplier education and recognition in order to hit these targets and put these programs in place. And we want you to help make the change.’

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

Days and years went by, and eventually, the ’93 Ford Escort was living in the hybrid-dominated world of the year 2004. Time and technology had progressed, and there were a plethora of better alternatives on the market in 2004. My mom decided that the Escort had seen better days, and started a new/used car hunt. Circular Economy.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2021

Just as Van Halen’s brown M&Ms Rider has become a great metaphor for proxy measures that alert you in advance to poor management practices, companies that focus on ESG are typically in a better place operationally and financially. This was the largest difference in performance recorded since 2004.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 7, 2020

In 1996, I was promoted Country General Manager Switzerland. I was Country Manager Switzerland at TNT when the company was bought by KPN. Thanks to technology, namely digital connectivity, I was able to manage a multi-billion-dollar acquisition series with a small team of ten people. In 1999, I joined French La Poste.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2018

Passage of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 allowed U.S. Sean Van Gundy, managing director of working capital advisory with C2FO, estimates that several hundred billion dollars could be infused back into the U.S. In theory, the money could be put to work building new factories, increasing output and hiring more American workers.

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Arkestro

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

With an ever-changing industry requiring staying up to date with technology developments, current trends, and new regulations, it can be difficult to manage costs while still ensuring quality parts. A: Speaking of supplier relationships, how do you manage quality suppliers? Arkestro: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us, Jeoff!

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. Thus leadership provides goals and the bottom work force gets a pragmatic, scientific method to inform management of what is feasible.

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Shapiro Negotiations Institute

JULY 25, 2024

Moving to Los Angeles in 2004, she unexpectedly found herself organizing high-stakes poker games for celebrities and business titans. She has taught at Rutgers University, Kellogg School of Management, and Harvard Business School and contributed to Harvard’s executive education programs.

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The Procuretech Podcast

JANUARY 18, 2022

Back in 2004, when she started applying AI to be leveraged for repetitive tasks in spend analysis and categorisation, it reduced this task from 9 weeks down to several hours. AI was originally used to augment human behaviour; to take things that we tactically need to do repetitively as a process and just do them faster and more accurately.

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