I recently read an article on Purchasing.com about HP’s Purchasing Organization titled HP’s purchasing organization looks beyond price. At $104B in annual revenue, HP is quite a large organization with $16.5B in Indirect and Services Spend. The article talks about about how HP’s Procurement Organization initially focused their efforts on cost reductions but have [...]

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SpendMatters blogger and all around industry guru Jason Busch is back with another round of Category Chatter podcasts. In case you’re not familiar with the series, the podcasts feature Jason interviewing various Ariba Category Managers on hot topics of the day. If the area of spend they’re covering is of interest to you, Jason’s probing [...]

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After covering #5 Direct Materials, #4 Travel & Expenses and #3 Transportation, we’re down to the silver medalist in our countdown: Temporary Labor. Like the other categories, Temp Labor has been impacted by the fluctuations in the US and global economies. But unlike the others, the impact of rising fuel and commodity prices is not [...]

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