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Procurement maturity is increasingly becoming holistic and integrated – as is procurement technology. No longer can we think of maturity models for various areas of the function (or the use/adoption of solutions) in silos. Step change improvement comes from thinking of the whole – not the parts or even the sum of the parts. In short, we must think about end-to-end process and integration – including the overlap between buying, transactional connectivity, supplier management, supplier portal/connectivity, payment and more.

This paper won’t dive into the mechanics of spend analytics related to identifying potential savings from strategic sourcing (e.g., reduced pricing via competitive bidding to aggregate spending to preferred suppliers). Instead, we will focus on how firms can expand their spend analytics to identify and fix non-compliance scenarios that cost real money and introduce real business risk.

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Organisations realize they must consider the contingent workforce similarly to how they manage internal staff — in the search for talent, in managing performance and even in retention or exit. At the same time, the contingent workforce is different, and thus requires different processes and management, from the permanent group. The current regulatory environment, while not the only driver, means that governments will increasingly require careful management of the contingent workforce if organisations are to stay within the law and avoid reputational and financial risk.

整体框架类和灵活哟u can find new ways to model and manage supply markets to extract more value out of the supply chain. Supply markets are constantly changing and innovating, and so must your approach in managing supply. Off-the-shelf market intelligence reports and category strategies developed years ago will not likely give you a big boost. As such, you must look at category management as a living, breathing thing. It is both an art and a science. This ebook can only give you a broader palette of colors and some methods and tools to consider.

There is no one-size-fits-all P2P implementation strategy, but the tactical advice we provide in this download is crucial to consider for success. You may have to bend the points to fit your organization’s needs, but if you follow these best practices, you will avoid a lot of the nightmare scenarios we've heard about from our readers.

Tactical spend analysis and strategic supply management are two very different beasts. If you believe you need to provide supply market intelligence to your business, if you think such intelligence requires more than outsourced or pre-packaged solutions or that you’ll need your own analytics capability, then download now!

For some, an invoice is a piece of paper sent by a supplier to a customer with varying amounts of detail about services performed or items purchased or to be purchased, along with other details including mailing and remittance information, the maturity date of the invoice and the conditions, such as penalties, if the maturity date is not met. But in practice, an invoice is much, much more...

Looking to choose an eProcurement system? The decision used to be easy. Today, it's not. This paper walks you through the three market segmentations (Coupa, Ivalua, and BuyerQuest). Do you gravitate toward one of these types of providers? Then we have a match for you. Download this paper for eProcurement shortlists and recommendations!

En Spend Matters buscamos empoderar a las áreas de compras con contenidos de valor, en esta ocasión realizamos un estudio sobre el uso que las empresas mexicanas le dan a las tecnologías de información para habilitar o fortalecer su función de compras, en especifico las relacionadas con: Compras electrónicas, análisis del gasto, contratación de servicios, catálogos electrónicos, contratos, proveedores, abasto estratégico, gastos de viaje y facturación electrónica; esperamos que este estudio sea de valor para ti y nos des tu retroalimentación.

In the industrial B2B world, and in the MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) world in particular, relevance and personalization via a complexity-taming intelligent system is exceedingly important. If strategic capital assets are not maintained with the right items and services, whether it's new tooling and lubricant for a planned maintenance job or critical spares for unplanned emergency maintenance, millions of dollars can be lost in minutes and hours. Supplier catalogs matter: a lot.

在完美的世界里,企业执行良好的输入prise Performance Management by forming a great strategy and deploying it to cascade enterprise strategic goals down to line staff so the scorecards are balanced, relevant, aligns, and realistic. The real world is very, very different. Procurement $#hit happens. But in this paper, Pierre Mitchell at least writes about how you can use it as fertilizer.

It is our hope that CPOs, CFOs, and other senior procurement and finance decision makers that must develop a P2P integration strategy (and program) will find this report invaluable in their efforts. IT and other resources are likely to find useful tidbits as well. At its core, this report doesn’t just look at success criteria for ERP integration. It provides general strategy options for P2P cloud integration as well. The best news? All of this can be way easier than you think. Download to find out how!