Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2023

My post yesterday on User Adoption and the Rise of the AI Chatbots sparked some interesting discussions on LinkedIn – especially regarding the impact on procurement jobs and buyer adoption or resistance. ” However, an effective talent upgrade cannot happen without buyer cooperation, leading to the question I am asking today. .”

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Procurement Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

FIRST, SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION In August 2007, I wrote an article titled “Procurement’s Expanding Role and the Executive of the Future.” As a result, there will be a continuing need for “low-level” buyers. 2007 – Commonwealth of Virginia ’s eVA – Yes, Virginia!

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The concept was simple, although advanced for the time, whereby a buyer would plug in the required MRO part number and the corresponding zip code with delivery requirement into the system. In August 2003, the new technology successfully went live in a production environment for the DND.

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

To start, most procurement professionals – or buyers as we were called back then, indicated they fell into the position rather than choosing it – someone had to do it was a common refrain. As frustrating as that was, the biggest cause of angst was how senior management viewed our role and contribution.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 17, 2015

The short version is that 2014 came darn close (with 86 trucking and logistics companies acquired) to beating the record of 90 acquisitions set in 2007. Front page news from Transport Topics “Trucking, Logistics Acquisitions Expected to Continue in 2015”.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I launched my second business, a strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm in 2007. I knew that if we were successful, we could accelerate and simplify connections and partnerships between enterprise buyers and suppliers at a global level. We connect buyers and suppliers for faster, better and more trusted business.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 30, 2023

As you read this post originally published in May 2007 about “enabling technology and the emergence of the metaprise,” can the three-stage implementation framework be as successful today as it was back then? Kearney Report that was originally released in May 2007.

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