Here are some nuggets that Andrew Bartolini, Aberdeen Group shared earlier this week on a webcast - ‘Assessing the CFO’s View of Procurement’ - on how you can start building bridges between Finance and Procurement. This is a key focus area for companies enjoying best in class performance - those that are noted for superior [...]

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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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Earlier this week, Dan Ashton hosted a webinar (replay here) with speakers from Travelers Insurance and Kelly Services to discuss the current opportunity for driving value in contingent labor procurement. Here he shares some of the key take-aways.

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Last week, we had a tremendous turnout to the Myths, Pifalls and Realities around Services Procurement webinar (click here for the replay) and there were some follow up questions from attendees that I thought everyone might be interested in. Please feel free to comment and add your insights.
Q: “Can you provide your position on whether [...]

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Jason Busch covered this on Spend Matters yesterday. But for those of you who may have missed it, Drew Hofler expanded on the repercussions of the CIT collapse, its impact on business, and the WSJ’s suggested alternative finance options. In this clip, Drew goes into greater depth on collaborative (buyer/supplier) and asset-based cash flow options:

The [...]

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