While making fun of the way governments purchase has long been a good source of humor in spend management circles, the deficit news coming out now leads one to believe that it is now time to really make something happen.
What do you think? How would you make this happen? Is it a lost [...]

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In December, we posted some of the responses to a question that was getting a lot of attention in the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn:
“What is the major reason as to why Procurement Managers are reluctant to provide feedback or feedback is minimal after a bid process?”
If you missed Part 1, you can [...]

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The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply recently came out with their list of “The Top 20 websites in the world of procurement” and SupplyExcellence made the cut! We are honored and privileged to be included among spend management thought leaders, journals and gurus such as ISM, Purchasing.com, Supply Chain Management Review, Sourcing Innovation, and [...]

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At the Ariba User Conference held last week in Nashville, I had the opportunity to lead two sessions focused on spend adoption-an initiative that’s getting a lot of traction in the marketplace.
What is spend adoption? It’s the process of selecting a category of spend, enabling the catalog or contract content on the P2P solution, [...]

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Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome T&E strategic sourcing guru Scott Gillespie, author of the Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement blog, for a four part series of guest posts on best practices for data in travel procurement. Posts 1, 2 and 3 covered travel data acquisition, scrubbing and reporting.
Today we’ll look at data reporting’s [...]

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