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Procurement’s “Real” Acres Of Diamonds In 2025

Procurement Insights

” – CPO | Advisor | IIT | NUS | Stanford | Exxonmobil | Chevron | E&Y (February 2025) Based on my research and work between 1998 and 2004, I wrote a paper titled ACRES OF DIAMONDS: The Value of Effectively Managing Low-Dollar, High Transactional Volume Spend. You can access it by clicking on the title page image above.

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Rosslyn: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Spend analytics solution overview, company background, platform and services overview, modules and application overview, roadmap and vision

Spend Matters

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, procurement is no longer just about purchasing goods and services. Rosslyn has been a player in the spend analytics space since 2004, and it is one of the only publicly traded companies in the space. Rosslyn provides one such solution.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

and J-P Rodrigue (2004)). This organization was renamed the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) in 1985 and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) in 2004. Founded in 1963, NCPDM represents the outbound side of logistics and the National Association for Purchasing Management (NAPM) represents the inbound side.

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Which Is Better – A Centralized or Decentralized Procurement Practice?

Procurement Insights

.” Mission Control The following excerpt from a June 2007 post talks about decentralization and centralization in procurement – [link] The theory behind the balanced approach is that self-sufficient (usually larger) departments, while independent, will be collaborative partners with the central purchasing group.

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HICX raises $30M to give companies visibility into their supply chain

HICX

Founded in 2004, London-based HICX serves a SaaS-based low-code platform that gives companies a single channel for onboarding new suppliers, replete with tools for capturing all the information that the various departments and systems within a company need. The funding constituted a mixture of $22 million equity and $8 million in debt.

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The Big Interview with Ana Maria Velica

Procurement Heads

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. Over the years, I got to experience purchasing evolving into procurement, where procurement has become a key strategic partner and can unlock value and profit for organisations.

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What is Web3?

Planergy

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 Use PLANERGY to manage purchasing and accounts payable. Download PDF.