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...
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...
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...
Sheena 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...
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% OK, it's not scientific, it's a rule...
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...
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,...