We ran a series of webinars titled: The Journey from Strategic Sourcing to Category Management: The Secret Sauce or Opening the Kimono and I happened to come across one of the sessions while doing some research for a client, and it reminded me of the…
“Cracking the Code on Collaboration – Six new tools”. Here was the answer I had been searching for – THE code. I imagined that I would find a set of swanky new digital tools or techniques that would blow my socks off. Maybe even a…
A recent spate of news around this topic makes this an opportune time for this discussion. Any Category Management (CM) strategy (and for this discussion we will talk about outsourcing offshore as the CM strategy) MUST have an exit ramp as an integral component. The…
If you consider your Procurement organization to be World-Class then you are no doubt implementing, or at a minimum, researching new technology like RPA (Robotic Process Automation) or AI (Artificial Intelligence) or “not so new” technology like Procure-to-Pay or Source-To-Settle applications such as Coupa, Sage,…
While I won’t share my top 5 today, I will share one of them that MUST be in everyone’s top 5 to move to Category Management or they may not know what they speak of and that is a High Performance Leadership Team (HPLT). The…