RFP Due Dates Are Closer Than They Appear Are RFP due dates always sneaking up on you? Have you been put in an embarrassing position because you couldn’t meet the timetable of senior management or your supervisor? Most eSourcing platforms are designed to only handle certain types of events. Maybe that is why most systems […]
How One Major Metropolitan School District is Driving Efficiency in Procurement One major metropolitan school district has achieved dramatic efficiency gains and gained control over critical spend categories in the past year. For years the district was saddled with an antiquated manual system to solicit, analyze and award bids for goods and services. Picture mountains […]
Are Your Purchasing and Budgeting Systems Encouraging Rogue Spend? Rogue spend is often a sign that there are bigger issues in purchasing and budgeting that aren’t being addressed. Let me outline a couple of recent stories that were shared with me to illustrate some underlying issues. A company was opening a new facility. Unfortunately, the […]
Needs Assessment Outline for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals If you are considering new tools for your procurement team to manage procurement and supply chain functions, this assessment should be a good starting point. Over the Labor Day weekend, I was finally tackling some home maintenance projects I had been avoiding. One thing I realized […]
Dashboards – Exit Procurement Chaos and Enter Strategic Management I often hear from CPOs that their staff is in chaos and struggling to meet daily challenges. Strategic management is only a dream. Feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated seems to be the norm in procurement. What if you could see the status of every project on your […]
Does Your eSourcing Platform Fit the Needs of Power and Casual Users? How well your eSourcing platform works with power and casual users impacts the productivity gains and cost savings achieved. If you want to know how well your tool works, review the individual RFP summary reports. If most reports are in Excel that should […]
Procurement Challenges Checklist – Are You Moving Forward or Treading Water? [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] This week I offer the most common challenges that are shared with me by procurement professionals. Most folks that contact me are: Grappling with a system […]
Don’t Purchase Software to Automate Your Procurement Efforts I wouldn’t recommend purchasing a software platform for your procurement team. You may be wondering why I would make this recommendation since I am in the software business. Let me share some of the issues I have encountered with prospective clients and clients who went ahead without […]
Are Manual Processes Sabotaging Your Efforts to Reach Procurement Savings Goals? How much easier would it be to reach your procurement savings goals if your systems worked for you instead of holding you back? Last week I provided some food for thought on this same subject. I offered 12 benefits your company could realize for […]
12 Benefits Your Company Can Realize by Automating Manual Processes in Procurement There is a long list of benefits that your company can realize by automating manual processes in procurement. The 12 I will share are based on conversations with CPOs. They are the most frequently mentioned pain points they want to eliminate. Some examples […]