This week in San Francisco I spoke with Jonathan Evans, Director of Vendor Relations at DonorsChoose.org, about their organization’s use of spend management tools and principals to move from a manual, paper process to a scalable, efficient model. To the “customers” (innovative teachers, their students, and the donors who select which projects to support), this procurement transformation looked like…

“The teacher posted the project on a Monday. The project was funded on a Tuesday. We purchased the materials on a Wednesday. The materials arrived in the teacher’s classroom on a Friday. And we had digital photos and thank-you notes to send back to the donor the following Monday.”

***The video interviews from the NY, Chicago and San Francisco Ariba LIVE World Tour events are now in a playlist on YouTube.***

Justin Fogarty is Managing Editor of Supply Excellence. For any questions or feedback on the blog or its contributors, Justin can be reached at jfogarty[at]ariba.com.