In the recent webinar, Correcting Your Spend Vision with Visibility, Mickey North Rizza, research director with AMR Research, discussed implementing spend visibility tools to bring more spend under management, gaining competitive advantage through analytics.
During the webinar, we received three really great questions from our audience, and wanted to share Mickey’s responses covering maverick spend, data [...]

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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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Although the jury is still out as to whether or not the recession has ended, recent raw material price increases seem to indicate that commodity markets have indeed hit bottom and started heading back up. Naturally, that’s leading to category/commodity managers asking (or being asked) a few questions, including…
“Are we too late to [...]

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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.
Good data is one of the two must-haves in any successful travel sourcing project. (The other is [...]

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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.
Let’s assume that you’ve collected all your travel data - now what? Just like with your other [...]

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