Specification Harmonization can help evaluate suppliers

Amazon launches new Business Prime benefits, spend visibility tool

Amazon will let its Business Prime customers analyze purchasing trends, earn credit card rewards and request extended payment terms, as the online retail giant aims to capture a larger slice of supplier spend.

Leaders’ Corner: How Good is a Contract? Tips to Avoid Loopholes

A good contract can prevent a lot of issues and everyone would agree with this. However, what does “good” encompass is trickier than it sounds.

Specification Harmonization can help evaluate suppliers

We have observed that the desired savings are not being captured despite spend consolidation for a particular category. The reason may be that category teams are missing huge opportunities by considering “specs” by suppliers based only on the contribution to the spend.

Organization-wide Deployment of Smart Contracts is not a reality yet

Chasing the dream of fully automated contracts is not a new phenomenon In fact, academicians and supply chain participants alike have been on a decades-long quest to eliminate the supposed inefficiencies in traditional written agreements.

Previous editions of Procurement Espresso e-magazine

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Procurement Espresso

Amazon launches new Business Prime benefits, spend visibility tool

Leaders’ Corner: How Good is a Contract? Tips to Avoid Loopholes

Specification Harmonization can help evaluate suppliers

Organization-wide Deployment of Smart Contracts is not a reality yet

Previous editions of Procurement Espresso e-magazine

Interview: An ex-CPO invests in a start-up

Interview: 75% of supplier innovations come from startups

Interview: Procurement Job Market Getting Hotter

CATEGORY FORECAST 2021

Top Articles 2020

Emergent Supply Chain Challenges for Deployment of COVID-19 Vaccine

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Interview: The Pandemic Has Accelerated the Need for Demand Management

Espresso LiVE: Procurement Digitalization in a Post-Pandemic World

Interview: Evolution of Supplier Audit in the Era of “Social Distancing”

Taking Charge of Procurement in the Middle of the Pandemic

Pandemic Fallout: “Cost Saving” and “Contract Renegotiation” have become top priorities

Interview: Procurement should not be the police department

Procurement Digitalization in a Post-Pandemic World

Online Search Patterns: Supply Risk, Procurement Jobs, and Cost Savings

Video: Globalization vs Localization, lessons for Procurement

Interview: A Nimble Procurement Team Helped Mitigate Supply Disruption

Procurement Conferences: Virtual Events Flavor of the Season

Interview: We must treat climate change with the same urgency as other crises we are facing

Mapping the CPO Response to COVID-19 as Global Recession Looms

Procurement Beige Book - April 2020

Beroe LiVE Survey: Companies face BCP Challenges as Coronavirus goes global

Interview: Responsible sourcing and risk management goes hand-in-hand

Coronavirus scare: China Goes into Pause Mode, Suppliers Remain Stoic

Interview: “We created AI tools to identify optimal sourcing scenarios” – MTN Group CPO

Top Ten Supply Chain Trends -- 2020

Category Forecast - 2020

Voice of Procurement

Up In the Air: Tales of Travel

Interview: Tariffs are the new normal; Procurement to play key role in localization

Beroe Live Poll: Procurement Spend And Supplier Checks

Interview: “We are challenged by the government to improve efficiency”

Procurement Beige Book OCT 2019

Interview: Ability to Tell Data-based Stories will be a Key Asset

Interview: “We Support our Business Stakeholders like Internal Consultants”

Interview: Demand Management is Like Spending Your Own Money

Going Beyond Compliance to Drive Performance

CPO to CEO -- The Road Ahead

What happens when assurance fails?

Welcome To The IT Procurement Community

The role of AI in Procurement

Interview: “I get to practice what I preach”

Interview: A Digital Tool for Better Supplier Negotiations

Procurement Strategies for Cookware –China vs India

Interview: UK businesses, not Parliament, bear the financial cost of Brexit

Industrial Vending Machines transforming VMI in MRO sector

Blue Blood Alternative

Getting the most out of your suppliers via Innovation

Emerging Cities for Sourcing Centers

UCB CPO on Stakeholder Management

Category Forecast 2019

Poll: Sourcing Managers Expect Annual Cost Savings of up to 5 percent

Interview: Simplicity was the key to transform Facilities Management

Robust supplier audit process is a must

Supplier Compliance is ripe for tech disruption

The Procurement Beige Book

Interview: Bayer CPO on his team winning Best-in-Class Gold award

Robust workflow architecture key to Spend Analysis exercise

Leaders’ Corner: Category Lifecycle Management in Five Steps

Beroe LiVE Poll: Expected cost savings for 2018

DIGITALIZATION: EITHER ALL OR SOME

IT’S NOT “US VS THEM”

Best-in-Class 50 (2018 Edition)

Extend payment terms without hurting suppliers

Six Steps to transform Capex Procurement

Beroe LiVE Poll: Center-led model gaining traction

Battery Shock: the brewing battle for Nickel Supplies

Consulting Cost: Demystified

Procurement’s Billion Dollar Impact

Key Role In Reducing Green House Gas Emissions

Sourcing In The Age Of Distraction

Special Reports - The Procurement Beige Book (Q4 2017)

2018 : Procurement Categories Forecast