All organisations have one particular concern in common: proper allocation of finite resources. The difference between doing this right and doing it wrong is boom and bust. This concern touches all aspects of business, but none more so than procurement. With the rise of globalisation, supply chains have swelled into…
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External spend can typically run from 30 to 70 percent of a company’s total expenditure, depending on the industry. It’s a staggering amount – but it’s also an opportunity. This level of expenditure can be used to transform a business by not only reducing costs, but by achieving competitive advantage…
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The second edition of our Data Suite Series takes a look at data categorisation and the benefits of developing a procurement taxonomy. Data categorisation. It’s what every procurement team wants. It’s the next stage after a spend analysis, and it’s where the presentation of data starts yielding really useful and…
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Which tendering process is right for what you’re trying to source? Choose wisely – the wrong path can put you in bed with the wrong supplier, which always leads to unwanted ramifications for the broader business. There are, obviously, many steps to the procurement process, but none more important than choosing whether to…
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It’s not about what you have; it’s how you use it. Anyone can collect data, but more and more organisations are struggling to visualise it in a manner which leads to actionable insights. If you want to see your spend data clearly, you have to put it in a spend…
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Expand or die. It may seem like a brutal ultimatum, but it holds some truth when it comes to the business world. Organisations, like the universe, cannot stay still: they expand or they contract. That’s it. If you want to keep operating, you have to keep growing. But this growth…
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What is your competitive advantage? If you hesitate when asked, then take cold comfort in the fact that you’re not alone. Too many businesses haven’t performed an adequate value chain analysis, which means they can’t know precisely what value they’re generating and which areas to target for gain. If you…
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It’s one of the oldest art forms in the world, but that doesn’t mean negotiation doesn’t need an update every now and again. A pandemic, supply chain issues and high inflation have combined to transform the negotiation landscape in 2022. Tactics we once relied upon may be more damaging than…
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Contract management, project management, category management, strategy, negotiation… a procurement officer needs to be skilled in many areas to adequately perform their role. With the rise of digital applications within the industry, such as AI and machine learning, the skill base is only getting broader. It goes without saying that…
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An event as profound and far-reaching as the COVID-19 pandemic was always going to affect how we see things. For employees, this has meant looking around at their organisation and wondering if this is where they want to be. October 2019 saw a 26% jump in the number of employees…
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