Tomorrow I’m moderating the October LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call. This month’s topic is ‘Nuisance Spend’ - that low volume, high SKU count spend that can be the most difficult to bring under management.
As always, we’ll be encouraging participation - questions, insights and discussion - from the audience. These calls are [...]

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This week at the Ariba Commerce Summit in New York, Gartner’s Dennis Gaughan shared their firms insights into b2b commerce trends, including ‘the cloud’, working capital management and collaboration.

We’ll be shooting a lot of interviews at the Commerce Summits over the next few weeks. So, check back here, on Ariba Exchange or our YouTube channel [...]

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This week at the Ariba Commerce Summit in Atlanta, Interarbor Solutions‘ Dana Gardner shared his view of how these 3 Mega Trends - cloud, mobile and community - are changing the IT landscape.

We’ll be shooting a lot of interviews at the Commerce Summits over the next few weeks. So, check back here, on Ariba Exchange [...]

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Last week on the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call, we discussed the relationship and HUGE opportunity for procurement and finance to work together. That internal collaboration can be the 1st step towards increased liquidity that doesn’t come at the expense of supply chain health. Once the procurement/finance working capital management goals are established, [...]

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