Procurement Best Practices Archives

29 May Listen here – you shouldn’t start a P2P project without a blueprint

Posted at 12:08h in Blueprinting, Procurement Best Practices, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process by Pete Loughlin

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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....

22 Apr NHS procurement needs fixing

Posted at 12:17h in Procurement Best Practices by Pete Loughlin

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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. ...

21 Apr We will soon be able to ditch the thinking holding supply chains back

Posted at 13:49h in Procurement Best Practices by Pete Loughlin

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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...

18 Nov Purchase to Pay Best Practice

Posted at 08:09h in Cloud Computing, Procurement Best Practices, Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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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...

02 Nov Are your P2P approval processes over-engineered?

Posted at 05:29h in AP Automation, e-Procurement Software, Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Purchase to Pay, Purchasing Process by Pete Loughlin

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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...

22 May P2P best practice out of a box

Posted at 12:34h in Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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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...

09 Aug Are e-procurement solutions necessary anymore?

Posted at 10:20h in Blockchain, Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Purchasing Process by Pete Loughlin

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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....

Procurement Best Practices

29 May Listen here – you shouldn’t start a P2P project without a blueprint

22 Apr NHS procurement needs fixing

21 Apr We will soon be able to ditch the thinking holding supply chains back

18 Nov Purchase to Pay Best Practice

02 Nov Are your P2P approval processes over-engineered?

22 May P2P best practice out of a box

09 Aug Are e-procurement solutions necessary anymore?

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