29 May Listen here – you shouldn’t start a P2P project without a blueprint
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....
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....
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%...
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....
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,...
As a consultant, I’ve often had privileged access to corrupt procurement practices. But I’m not going to blow the whistle on anyone - the thing is, the participants in this corruption, 9 times out of 10 at least, don’t realise they are corrupt. I am not referring...
Your purchasing processes are inefficient and your AP team struggles to pay on time. Whatever irritates you about your purchase to pay processes, don’t beat yourself up about it because however bad it seems there is always worse....
There’s a common approach to implementing purchase to pay processes and technologies – standardisation; no PO no pay; my way or no way; any colour you like as long as it’s black....