27 Oct How does your in-house procurement system compare to world class?
Any mature, modern organisation should have a long hard look at itself if it is still using an in-house built procurement system....
Any mature, modern organisation should have a long hard look at itself if it is still using an in-house built procurement system....
You need to sharpen a pencil. It is not optional. The rules say you have to have a very sharp pencil. But why are you using a Swiss Army knife? Good software will allow you to do virtually anything but it’s amazing how often businesses...
It is easy to halve the size of your operational purchasing team - in theory at least. If you double the number of catalogue managers you have, you can cut the size of your operational purchasing team by 50%...
There is a wide variety of factors to be considered when defining what is and what isn’t within the scope of an e-procurement project. Who are the users? Which parts of the business will be included? Which business process will be embraced and in particular,...
I was always excited about the idea of the one time only credit card. It’s a piece of technology that allows a secure payment to be made using a card that is issued purely for the purpose of a single transaction. It could be perfect...
Last month, Hackett, the authority on P2P, published their 2015 Key Issues study, an annual review of the priorities facing procurement organisations....