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Digital success – What makes procurement’s challenge so different?

Spend Matters

Like it or not, Procurement and Supply teams are in the midst of a digital revolution that looks set only to advance. For example, many reports show that the adoption of e-sourcing by best-in-class companies has stagnated at 60% – 70% since 2007. That means all parts of a business are on the spot to keep up and do digital.

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What does a 2015 article have to do with Hershey’s 2025 acquisition of LesserEvil for $750

Procurement Insights

Under the heading Candy and supply base synchronization, I wrote the following: How important is effective internal collaboration? Unfortunately, an extemporal supply base was a byproduct of the transactions leaving the acquiring company with a highly suspicious, deeply segmented group of suppliers. Just ask a candy company in the U.S.

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Who Is The “ONE” Missing From The Deloitte Solution Map?

Procurement Insights

Here is the paragraph: “Back in 2002, Greg Brady , a supply chain visionary, and Ranjit Notani , a pioneer in multi-enterprise collaboration technology, came to the conclusion that the traditional paradigm of business-to-business collaboration built around enterprise-centric software was fundamentally flawed. ” 30