Procurement Trends: 2022 and Beyond
From our friends at Procurated This past year was one of transition and transformation for procurement professionals around the country. Instead of a return to a pre-COVID status quo, procurement …
Facts and Myths of Procurement Part 1
From the Kodiak Community THE FACTS AND MYTHS OF PROCUREMENT. (PART 1) There’s a lot of noise out there. Creating a message and having your company stand apart — from the rest …
Digital Procurement
The conversion to digital procurement continues to gain momentum and it seems that we have reached the tipping point. In a growing number of organizations, digital procurement is not an …
S2P – if you don’t know what this means your business is suffering
Whether your organization has already made the decision or is planning to implement a full end-to-end procurement and source-to-pay (S2P) solution, how do you get started? Every company has different …
Integrated Procurement
As industry disruption forces companies to be more agile and innovative than ever, companies are realizing that a key to future success is the strength of their supply chain. Once …
Third Party Supply Chain Professionals are In Demand
Operational complexities and rising supply chain costs driven by globalization are quickly making third party Supply Chain Professionals (3SCPs) one of the most in-demand consultants in the US and global …
Poor RFP eqauls Poor Result
When it’s time to conduct an RFP, setting it up properly will mean the difference between getting excellent responses from suppliers or getting responses you can’t use. Before you start …
The Benefits of Outsourcing
When organizations decide that procurement and business activities do not need to be handled in-house, outsourcing those activities is the next step. Some organizations look to outsourcing as a way …
How Do You Want Your Money?
Doing your work for your customers and clients is the easy part. Sometimes, much harder is getting paid. Today’s business world provides many tools that make getting paid easier for everybody. …
Trends we saw in 2016
Supply Chain Trends we saw in 2016 The Use of Predictive Analytics, Planning Tools and Machine-Learning Some people are still telling us that having all the data in one place …