Procurement Talent Management: An Introduction
Earlier this week, Deloitte launched its latest procurement paper, Procurement Talent Management: Exceptional Outcomes Require Exceptional People, a rather provocative analysis – especially for a consultancy – that takes aim at the talent problem in procurement today. Spend Matters will be highlighting some of the findings of the paper in the coming weeks and months, […]
Supplier Enablement and E-Invoicing: Lessons Learned From a Fortune 500 Food/Beverage Company
There’s no substitute for learning from experience when it comes to supplier enablement for e-invoicing programs. Earlier this year, our research team spoke with the P2P process owner and head of supplier enrollment for a large food and beverage company. Spend Matters previously shared some of the early lessons in the first installment in this […]
Coupa Heads for the Clouds — eProcurement, T&E and Beyond (Part 3)
In this post, I’ll continue my analysis of Coupa’s T&E capabilities by walking through a typical submission and approval process (read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series here). I know this sounds like a deathly boring subject for many, but trust me, it…
Coupa Heads for the Clouds — eProcurement, T&E and Beyond (Part 2)
The most important functional announcement in Coupa’s latest release (you can read the first post in this series here) is a new expense reporting capability designed to provide organizations with an integrated system to help capture, in Coupa’s words…
Ariba Exchange: Social Media Meets P2P Expertise Meets Category Knowledge
I?ve been trolling around the Ariba Exchange quite a bit in the past couple of weeks. The site, along with Ariba SupplyWatch provides some of the best free content I?ve seen out there in the market. Ariba Exchange is a relatively new site, one that …
McKinsey Bids Adieu to Anil Kumar
Late this afternoon, a Reuters story hit the wire confirming that Anil Kumar, a former McKinsey Director, was no longer with the firm following an internal investigation. Reuters quotes an email note from McKinsey spokesman Michael Stewart noting tha…
Shameless Plug: MetalMiner Turns Two
MetalMiner, Spend Matters’ sister publication focused on metals sourcing, turned two today. Three years younger than Spend Matters, the site is nonetheless following in the virtual steps of this digital rag, quickly catching up with and overtaking es…
Gartner to Acquire AMR Research: Supply Chain and Procurement Analyst Game Over?
Earlier this morning, Gartner announced that it was acquiring AMR Research. For those who are not familiar with AMR, the firm, for the longest time, has been the most influential analyst outfit focused on supply chain and procurement. While it has te…
Cortera — A New D&B Competitor in the Supply Risk Content Market(Part 2)
In my first column tackling Cortera, a new upstart that provides supply risk content that competes against D&B, Equifax and others, I examined their potentially disruptive business model. Today, I’ll continue this analysis digging into how Cortera ha…
Cortera — A New D&B Competitor in the Supply Risk Content Market (Part 1)
Every week, I try to give myself an hour or two to surf the web and do research on companies and news that I might not otherwise come across in the regular contingent of sites and publications I peruse (don’t ask — it’s probably upwards of 150 now)….
