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WNS Acquires The Smart Cube (and OptiBuy)

WNS acquires The Smart Cube and OptiBuy, what Spend Matters analyst Pierre Michelle has to say. → Read More

Future 5 2022: Relish

This piece examines what Relish does, why it was chosen as a Spend Matters 2022 Future 5 and what challenges it faces. → Read More

Why procurement organizations need digital platforms — not just apps

This piece makes the case for why procurement businesses should reject their monolithic apps and suites in favor of platforms. → Read More

Can Coupa (and its procurement suite peers) manage supply as well as spend?

Can Coupa (and its procurement suite peers) manage supply as well as spend? Pierre Mitchell discusses after attending Inspire! → Read More

Bain acquires Proxima. Was this a smart move?

Bain & Company just announced its intent to acquire Proxima Group, with the firms announcing that they will leverage their combined expertises and services to strengthen Bain & Company&#8… → Read More

The Procurement Services Market Landscape Report and Directory (Part 9) — Series finale

This final installment of our Spend Matters PRO series — “Procurement Services Market Landscape Report and Directory” — will summarize the results of our research, which sheds light on an important… → Read More

Procurement services study series (Part 8) — BPO market details and 7 provider profiles

Part 8 of this Procurement Services Market Landscape Report and Directory series focuses on 7 providers of business process outsourcing (BPO). → Read More

The Procurement Services Market Landscape Report and Directory — Building a winning service strategy (Part 2)

CPOs can learn more strategy about finding procurement services vendors and using them to incrase influence with your execs and customers. → Read More

SRM: Harnessing supplier innovation to unlock multiple sources of value

Organizations are increasingly adopting a triple bottom line (TBL) framework to create wider business value from social, environmental and financial interactions — partly because external […] → Read More

Unconventional Wisdom: On-time delivery and cost versus cash — a two-sided quandary

Procurement analyst Pierrre Mitchell talks about cost-versus-cash and supplier on-time delivery when it's non negotiable. → Read More

Siemens acquires electronics supply chain provider Supplyframe: Rapid analysis

Siemens AG, a global technology provider, announced the acquisition of Supplyframe, a provider for the global electronics value chain. → Read More

Defining and digitizing direct procurement (Part 2) — More on direct materials sourcing

This post about technology for direct materials sourcing focuses on cost management, supply chain and options for S2P. See vendor names too. → Read More

Defining and digitizing direct procurement (Part 1) — Direct materials sourcing

This series on digitizing direct materials procurement today will focus on eight key digital capabilities for direct materials sourcing. → Read More

Finally! Progress being made in the US federal government supply chain efforts for Covid-19

On Friday, the White House announced in its US Covid-19 briefing that it will invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) to ramp up production. → Read More

Defining and digitizing direct procurement (Part 1) — Introduction and framework

This post will help direct procurement technology buyers and solution providers by showing how to digitize direct procurement processes. → Read More

Coupa and complexity: Acquisitions, tech integration and customer issues

Coupa integration is key to its many acquisitions. Yet, with growth comes complexity, and some aren’t seeing a fully integrated solution. → Read More

Making Sense of Supply Risk Management Solutions (Part 4) — Supplier Financial Risk Monitoring Services

The market for supplier financial risk monitoring is complex. It includes CreditRiskMonitor, Dun & Bradstreet, Equifax, Experian, FICO, RapidRatings. → Read More

Procurement KPIs Series (Part 4) — Deep Diving into ‘Spend Under Management’

Spend under management (SUM) is the last metric in our KPI series. We'll examine areas of spend under management and a balanced scorecard for supply. → Read More

Making Sense of the Supply Risk Management Solution Landscape (Part 1)

Knowing supply risk managment is vital. Enterprise risk has never been higher. COVID-19 has exposed risks, so learn the basics of supply risk managment. → Read More

Getting Real and Resilient in Direct Procurement Execution

Direct procurement execution area (e-procurement for direct) has been crying out for better technology for decades. An interesting vendor is SourceDay. → Read More