Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 20, 2019

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What Supply Chain Management problem does this solve? The biggest problem in the transitional supply chain is lack of open and trustworthy information availability across the supply chain caused by multiple issues – trust, technology and legacy practices being the top ones.

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Procurement Insights

APRIL 4, 2025

It also reminded me of a 2008 article I had written on the Procurement Insights blog titled Procurement considerations when dealing with a merger? What are some best practices to promote optimal adoption of the governing policies and procedures in the absence of spend management technology?

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The article you are about to read was written in 2008. Before attempting to answer the above questions, have a read of the original 2008 article below. Are You In The Software Business? There are several questions in 2023, including: Does MSI still collaborate with Coupa?

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Jaggaer

MAY 7, 2019

Let’s say, for example, a supplier of facility management fails to meet its contractual obligations, causing the bank to make substantial losses. Since the financial crash of 2008, procurement has taken on an increasingly important role in the sector for another reason: strategic suppliers all present various kinds of risk to the bank.

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Pipefy

JULY 24, 2024

Change management techniques provide resiliency and keep team members on the same page, which is especially useful as organizations face changing business or industry conditions. Ensuring that a change management implementation is successful can be a challenging process, but learning lessons from others makes it easier.

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 1, 2024

I had an exchange on LinkedIn with Coupa’s EVP, Strategy, and Product Management Donna Wilczek, regarding her departure from the company after 13 years. We earned over 100 software patents (24 with my name), secured leadership positions in 150+ analyst reports, and went toe-to-toe with SAP! I, of course, have my favorites.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2022

(Editor’s Note: This post is a follow-up to the breaking headline “COUPA SOFTWARE ENTERS INTO DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT TO BE ACQUIRED BY THOMA BRAVO FOR $8 BILLION.” Are You in The Software Business? ” Part 2 – A Tale of Two Industry Titans will be published later in the week. coupa #zycus).

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Jaggaer

JUNE 9, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus begins to subside in many parts of the world, supply chains are stabilizing. Procurement and legal teams need well prepared, highly organized document management systems to systematically look at force majeure clauses are written. A full digital contract management suite can help with each of these tasks.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

According to McKinsey research , in the five years immediately following the 2008 global financial crisis, total return to shareholders for companies with top-quartile procurement capabilities was 42 percent higher than the companies whose procurement operations were in the bottom quartile. Risk management.

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Procurement Software

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

These help teams to manage the attribution of marketing efforts, plan their campaigns and content, and track marketing generated leads. This in turn enables them to manage their pipelines and forecast more accurately. When it comes to martech (fusion between marketing and technology ) as many as 8,000 tools are available today.

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Zycus Cognitive Procurement

APRIL 4, 2022

After the financial crisis of 2008, companies started to focus on improving their overall value creation to survive the demanding market and economic situation. Companies rely on complex, multi-faceted, interconnected networks that make up their supply chain. Manage costs and maximize innovation of new technologies.

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Procurify

AUGUST 11, 2022

While dealing with the ongoing inflation, companies must navigate supply chain disruptions, geopolitical issues in certain markets, labour shortages and the foggy business environment caused by the pandemic. This blog will outline solutions to implement when planning for a downturn. Take your cash management to the next level.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 25, 2023

Spreadsheets In The Digital Age Here is an excerpt from one of the very first times I wrote about spreadsheets in this blog which was in October 2008: “It is perfectly possible to prepare a company’s annual accounts on spreadsheets, but it is much less time consuming and error prone to do the same job with an accounting software package.”

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 24, 2022

Ironically, the first article in this blog about using spreadsheets was a guest post by Glenda Leatherman , a change management consultant, in March 2008. Coinciding with Andrew’s point of view was the release of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘s white paper “ Are Spreadsheets Sabotaging Your Supply Chain?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Financial services companies are considered institutions because they manage and move the core aspects of our global economic system. While bank failures are often the result of bad management decisions and policies, there’s good reason to attribute some blame to delayed modernization initiatives and strategies.

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