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Five Priorities for UK Public Sector Procurement in 2025 – and Beyond

Jaggaer

Commercial reforms in the UK Civil Service started in 2014 the late Lord Heyward recognised that professional acumen needed to be improved, and standards raised. At the time, organisations were understandably keen to capture the benefits but, in many cases, they took leaps of blind faith and dot.com became dot.bomb.

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Three new year’s resolutions for your supply chain

The Network Effect

Note: In honor of a similar post from last year, I thought I’d do an update for 2014. Having spent a lot of my time in 2014 in the board rooms and corner offices of companies around the world, I can say without a doubt that this is no longer the case. How much are you spending to address that response? Conclusion.

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Supply Base Optimization: 6 Steps to Ensure Success

Procurify

As businesses grow and scale, oftentimes, so does their supply base and the number of suppliers they work with. According to Industry Star, most businesses spend 80 percent of their cost of goods sold (COGS) with just 20 percent of their suppliers. . This way, organizations can spend more time with fewer suppliers. .

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Why E-invoicing is in Focus Today & How will it Benefit your Business?

Zycus Cognitive Procurement

Although e-Invoicing is not a new technology, its relevance has grown multi-fold in recent times. Having mandated it many years ago (as early as 2014), the American and European markets were the early adopters and have a higher adoption rate by now. Both suppliers and buyers can manage invoicing data on a central cloud-based platform.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

After my time at TNT, I was driving for more than a decade the international expansion of French La Poste. In 2014, I accepted to support the World Economic Forum in developing the supply chain and transport industries. Adoption of visibility solutions is increasing. Thought leaders are researching and publishing all the time.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

Intelligent IBP effectively combines human and machine strengths with good decision practices to consistently make timely, high-quality, horizon agnostic business decisions. I think it is time to update the IBP belief sytem to be more reflective of current times, technology & ways of working, and create a modern IBP vision.