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Danone’s COO Mike Sloboda’s “3 Tips For Supply Success” Nails It!

Procurement Insights

” The article focused on the 2006 CPO Agenda London-based panel discussion asking, “Are there any limits to procurement’s role?” FIRST, SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION In August 2007, I wrote an article titled “Procurement’s Expanding Role and the Executive of the Future.”

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The National Program of IT as the Alter-Ego of Procurement

The Good Spending

Eventually, a confidential report was produced in February 2006 stating that Lorenzo had "no mapping of features to release, nor detailed plans. Accenture had two of the £1 billion-a-piece prime contracts, so it appeared to be facing a £1 billion penalty payment to the government if it abandoned the program. Poor program management?

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What the Coupa software acquisition means for procuretech

Procurement Software

Coupa was founded back in 2006. Cloud hadn’t really made much of an imprint on the Source-to-Pay (S2P) space. There’s an increasing focus on having a “platform” as a single source of truth for your data. What’s in it for them to choose Coupa, or any legacy source-to-pay suite for that matter? This isn’t over yet.