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Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Avneet Deol, market analyst at Mintec.

早些时候在2016年之前，冰上的第11号糖合同的价格，原料糖交易的世界基准，看起来以四年超过四年的最高水平结束。但是，价格随后于2016年第四季度下跌，12月中旬达到六个月的低点。在本文中，我们看看去年对糖市场产生了影响的因素，为什么价格转向2016年底。

花费物质欢迎来自火箭软件的产品管理总监Martyn Davies的这位客人邮政。

The biggest manufacturing brands in the world demand rigorous data workflow processes between them and their suppliers — and it’s easy to see why. There is no doubt that supply chains will only continue to become more complex, and increase the level of risk, especially when they are geographically dispersed. Global companies need to implement robust processes to ensure that data is managed, processed and protected to the highest standard when it is exchanged and shared with others.

Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Iyappan C., senior research analyst, FM/CRE Services at Beroe.

One of the clear trends in the current business world is that global organizations are increasing their operational presence in developing geographies and, as a consequence, procurement teams are forced to seek and attain benefits from integrated supply contracts including these geographies. If they can attain such integration, it will consolidate the organization's’ overall supply bases more efficiently.

Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Chris Haydon, chief strategy officer for SAP Ariba.

Fifty years ago, George Jetson and his cartoon family painted a vision for the future that technologists have been chasing ever since. And it is closer to becoming a reality than you might think.

Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Anthony Ryan, head of procurement operations at eir.

We have a pretty excellent P2P system at eir. It’s in the cloud, easy to use and delivers one of our primary objectives as a procurement team: spend under management. Our study of how best to address the needs of the SRM and CLM programs led us to consider the pros and cons of best-of-breed point solutions versus fully integrated end-to-end solutions that service all things procurement.

花费物质欢迎来自Alvarez＆Marsal高级总监Jeannie Pumphrey的这次旅客帖子。

第三方风险管理(3人口、难民和移民事务局)仍然是one of the top three risk-related topics discussed in the boardrooms and amongst executive management teams in the financial services industry. As corporations tackle the task of segmenting their provider base and identifying and managing the risk inherent to the use of third parties, lack of clarity regarding appropriate program ownership, accountability and responsibility forms a common challenge.

花费物质欢迎来自ecovadis的合作社Pierre-Francois Thaler的这次旅客帖子。

经过多年的讨论，谈判和预期，我们终于达到了关于气候变化的国际协议。“协议”建立了195个国家的承诺，以采取具体措施，以抵押碳排放，最终使世界成为更好，更可持续的生活地。但是现在我们有一个框架来与之合作，有很多问题需要考虑。该协议将如何影响组织？采购的作用是什么需要在达到这些新的减少目标方面发挥作用？

Spend Matters welcomes this post by Jim Kiser, director of consulting at GEP. Let me ask a question: How much greater success do you believe is possible by gaining strong stakeholder buy-in for any new organizational project? I guess the more important question to ask yourself is, “How likely is a project to have challenges and risk a point of failure if buy-in is not agreed?” I have witnessed both, but let’s layout the areas of good stakeholder buy-in and ideas to gain strong engagement for your organization’s project. Stakeholder buy-in, for lack of a better term, is internal customers, resources and management who would support or oppose the decisions made by the business by internal or external individuals. In essence, gaining stakeholder buy-in is the first step toward involving these key decision makers in the project process in achieving an agreed consensus on their needs linked to the project direction.

Spend Matters welcomes a guest post from Paul Blake, a sales manager at GEP.Earlier this week, I met with a prospective client to talk about spend visibility, big data. and all that good stuff. With the best of intentions of course, and having applied a very great deal of resource and brain power (and inevitably cold hard cash), this client had built a program of data capture, manipulation, and transformation, based on all sorts of rules and manual interventions all designed to make sense of their global spend patterns. I got the impression that they felt that had created a bit of a monster that they'd yet to get anything really, you know, useful out of.

Despite global increases in wheat production, the United States and India have actually seen drops in recent years. That trend could persist as experts are predicting as much as a 3 percent decrease in yield from last year. A drought could have a serious effect on all crops this summer and if the production of maize or soybeans decreases, expect wheat prices to spike.

Premature demise and steady-state stagnation are two things that often lead to less effective group procurement functions within conglomerates. There are remedies to underachieving group procurement functions, however. Pranav Padgaonkar of GEP explains how to get the most out of centralized procurement and strategic sourcing.

Too often speed is the most valued aspect of a P2P system rollout. However, best-in-class P2P providers balance rapid implementation with effective strategy and high quality execution to expedite quick gains in efficiency and compliance. Understanding what makes the implementation process better is the only way to pick a P2P provider.