Suppliers have a hard time sometimes A colleague of mine once told me how, at a routine supplier performance review meeting, he managed to extract a $100,000 rebate from the supplier. Just as the supplier account manager arrived he told him there would be a slight...
// It depends on how effective you are at communicating and how effective your CEO is at listening but getting P2P firmly on the corporate agenda can be quite a challenge and keeping it there can be equally difficult. It’s not their fault. The true...
The disastrous economic climate means that most organisations are looking at their costs even more closely than normal and it is the so called "discretionary" spend that is coming into a very clear focus. When times are tough and the immediate future is uncertain, it's...
It’s funny how cyclical the world is and we’re at a very interesting point in the cycle now. Traditionally it was believed that public sector was slow boring, low paid but stable and certainly not the place to see innovation. In the early part of this decade,...
To the initiated, it's a no brainer. Catalogues allow you to filter strictly what people in your organization can buy and from whom. The purchasing process is slimmed down and the cost of purchasing, as well as the cost of purchases reduced. But for many of...