P2P blueprinting is a no-brainer. It reduces cost, it eliminates risk and it avoids some of the problems that can be confronted when a project is in mid-flight....
There’s an interesting anecdote in health procurement that illustrates one of its challenges. It is said that the NHS buys 24,000 different types of rubber gloves. ...
From a business perspective I think we are still in shock. Anyone that says that they know what the business landscape will be like in 6 months’ time isn’t paying attention. The fact is that none of us have been here before, no-one knows the...
Purchase to Pay best practice "out of the box" makes the implementation of P2P straightforward. But that doesn't mean it's easy and if a business intends to build their procurement processes from scratch, it could mean there is more work to do. If an organisation has...
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...
There’s a highly valuable anecdote that I can’t repeat. It’s all about how to successfully specify a purchase to pay solution. I say I can’t repeat it, I just can’t say who the main players are so for the sake of sharing the love, I’ll...
In the early days of e-procurement - the 1990s - the solutions that were emerging were transformational and to understand why, we need to recall what the procurement landscape was like then....
