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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....

13 Mar Is trying to offer an “Amazon” style experience in e-procurement a good idea?

Posted at 00:11h in e-Procurement by Pete Loughlin

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From the top, I’m going to state my view – aiming to offer an “Amazon” type experience in your e-procurement system is a pointless aspiration. I’d go further – it is positively counter-productive and is symptomatic of a fundamental misunderstanding of what enterprise procurement applications...

09 Mar e-procurement – Does mobile approval undermine control?

Posted at 17:28h in e-Procurement by Pete Loughlin

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Many P2P solution vendors make a big play of their mobile offerings. Indeed, many of their customers and prospective customers similarly attach high importance to the ability to approve orders on the move. But does mobile approval deliver any business value – indeed does it...

16 Jan The e-procurement business case – the devil is in the detail

Posted at 09:54h in e-Procurement by Pete Loughlin

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You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t. Go into detail that is. Getting a business case agreed for e-procurement, or for any investment in back office technology for that matter, can be very difficult. The business case itself needn’t be difficult to...

29 Sep e-procurement – accommodating all categories is not easy, but it can be done

Posted at 15:16h in e-Procurement by Pete Loughlin

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heena Smith at Spend Matters wrote a piece today encouraging readers to contribute the strangest line items they have ever been asked to approve. The examples she gives include a huge golden pencil, 10 burritos and an alphabet made of server wire. I have a...

24 Aug How do you halve the size of your operational purchasing team? Easy!

Posted at 10:56h in e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Purchasing Process by Pete Loughlin

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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%...

14 Jun Overcoming resistance to change means telling people the way it really is

Posted at 12:09h in AP Automation, e-Procurement, Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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Despite “change management” being an overused phrase it remains, as a concept, undervalued. There’s a real challenge in getting people to change the way they do stuff because often, the way they do stuff is much better than the way you propose. So how do...

e-Procurement

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

13 Mar Is trying to offer an “Amazon” style experience in e-procurement a good idea?

09 Mar e-procurement – Does mobile approval undermine control?

16 Jan The e-procurement business case – the devil is in the detail

29 Sep e-procurement – accommodating all categories is not easy, but it can be done

24 Aug How do you halve the size of your operational purchasing team? Easy!

14 Jun Overcoming resistance to change means telling people the way it really is

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