Pete Loughlin, Author at Purchasing Insight

How does your procurement system compare

27 Oct How does your in-house procurement system compare to world class?

Posted at 01:47h in Digital Transformation, e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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Any mature, modern organisation should have a long hard look at itself if it is still using an in-house built procurement system....

24 Sep Some things just refuse to die – OCR is one of them

Posted at 06:37h in OCR by Pete Loughlin

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The world is analogue. This is why OCR won’t die. Together with technologies like RPA and AI, it helps to deal with the world as it really is not how we’d like it to be....

20 Sep Making sense out of chaos

Posted at 14:27h in The Rest by Pete Loughlin

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Even good, clean data reflects the uneven and imperfect world that we work in. It’s not good to have holes in your data but it not natural to have none. Uneven data can be difficult to read but perfectly straight lines only exist in theory....

28 May AI Opportunities in Supply Chain and Procurement

Posted at 03:07h in AI by Pete Loughlin

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There is no shortage claims for the application of AI but there always is when there’s a new buzzword that will sell strategy consulting. How much of it is real and how much is hype?...

26 May KPI dashboards – from information to insight

Posted at 10:53h in KPIs by Pete Loughlin

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Bad KPI dashboards are commonplace. Raw data, irrelevant data – incorrect data, out of date data and of course, too much data. If ever there was a good example of when more is less … most KPI dash boards....

18 Mar Top 5 Purchase to Pay project risks – and how to manage them

Posted at 04:33h in Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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These are the top 5 Purchase to Pay risks – the bridges left uncrossed, the unconfronted problems to tackle another day, they are the things that in theory, may never happen but in reality, absolutely will....

08 Mar Supply Chain Finance in the spotlight following the collapse of Greensill

Posted at 11:58h in News, Supply Chain Finance by Pete Loughlin

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For a decade, Greensill has built a business out of allowing big business to thrive whilst not paying their bills....

Author: Pete Loughlin

27 Oct How does your in-house procurement system compare to world class?

24 Sep Some things just refuse to die – OCR is one of them

20 Sep Making sense out of chaos

28 May AI Opportunities in Supply Chain and Procurement

26 May KPI dashboards – from information to insight

18 Mar Top 5 Purchase to Pay project risks – and how to manage them

08 Mar Supply Chain Finance in the spotlight following the collapse of Greensill

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