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Innovate & Create Your Way to a Better Procurement Future
October 25, 2016Read MoreSeptember 26, 2016 By: Procurious Why should the ability to create novel solutions for issues be second nature to procurement teams in the coming years? Donna Trowbridge is an accomplished Sourcing Manager with more than seventeen years of international experience….
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Nasdaq Welcomes Coupa Software Incorporated (Nasdaq: COUP) to The Nasdaq Stock Market
October 11, 2016Read MoreOctober 6, 2016 By: GlobalNewswire NEW YORK, Oct. 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Coupa Software Incorporated (Nasdaq:COUP), a leader in cloud-based spend management, visited the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square today in celebration of its initial public offering (IPO) on…
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Why Can’t Procurement Decide What to Call Itself?
October 5, 2016Read MoreSeptember 16, 2016 By: Nick Heinzmann I have a confession to make. Whenever someone asks me what I do for a living, I invariably say I work for a publisher whose work centers around supply chains. Sometimes I throw in…
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The Future of Procurement, Part 2: What to Do Now
October 5, 2016Read MoreAugust 10, 2016 By: Marcell Vollmer In my first article, The Future of Procurement, Part 1: What CFOs Need To Know, I discussed how procurement goes digital and concluded that the CPO might evolve to a chief value officer to…
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The Human Side of Procurement
September 19, 2016Read MoreAugust 30, 2016 By: Mary Kachinsky Procurement professionals trust their peers, whether internal or industry colleagues, over any other source of information or intelligence. In fact, 83 per cent of the survey participants held this opinion. Not only does this…
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The Future of Procurement, Part 1: What CFOs Need to Know
September 12, 2016Read MoreAugust 8, 2016 By: Marcell Vollmer Disruptive trends in technology are changing the procurement function as we know it today. Procurement is fast evolving into a more strategic and value-generating function. The digitization of procurement drives bottom-line impact on the…
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Be Innovative, but Always be Sure Procurement Delivers
September 5, 2016Read MoreSeptember 1, 2016 By: Gregoire Letort Debate has long raged over whether procurement will eventually move away from focusing solely on delivering cost savings, or whether the function will instead be tasked with – and measured by – the delivery…
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The Highs and Lows of Big Data
August 22, 2016Read MoreJuly 14, 2016 By: Lily Fish Procurement Leaders recently spoke with Walter Charles, CPO at Biogen, and David Wylie, CPO at Centrica, about big data and how it has added value to their organisations. Here, we look at some of…
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Tips for Preparing the Business (and IT) to Adopt E-Procurement Usability, Tactics and ERP
August 22, 2016Read MoreAugust 1, 2016 By: Jason Busch Getting frontline users ready to adopt e-procurement systems consistently is a last-mile challenge that too few procurement organizations confront directly as a central piece of a procure-to-pay (P2P) rollout strategy. We should never assume…
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Here’s What’s Driving the Procure to Pay Industry’s Growth
August 22, 2016Read MoreJuly 29, 2016 By: PYMNTS There are four factors driving the growth of the outsourced procure-to-pay market, according to a new report released by Technavio this week. According to Technavio, the need to cut costs in the procurement process, modernizing…
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