November 15, 2021
[Pod] The State of the Procurement Profession in 2021 w/ Dr. Marcell Vollmer and Christoph Bode
“A CEO only spends about 1% of their time with suppliers. Procurement really needs to step up and go to…
November 4, 2021
[Pod] Creating Tail Spend ROI Through an Improved Buyer Experience w/ Jean-Baptiste Anne and Vishal Patel
The high number of low-cost transactions is just the beginning of the challenges with tail spend management. Spend often finds…
October 25, 2021
[Pod] Applying Cognitive Technology to Procurement w/ Melissa Drew
“True business transformation is the ability to make sure that the people you're trying to influence understand the change, understand…
October 18, 2021
[Pod] Taking a BOLD and Focused Approach to Transforming Indirect P2P at Clorox w/ Kathy Thrasher and Mike Caldron
“When we have more efficient processes, we're changing the way we work, and we're open to those changes. To us,…
September 29, 2021
Experience Management – Making P2P “Pleasure to Purchase”
Experience is all the rage. Many advertising campaigns talk about “experiencing peace… tranquillity… adventure…” and many of us have decided…
September 28, 2021
SXM: Looking at Procurement Through Our Suppliers’ Eyes
For some time now, ‘experience management’ approaches have been gaining in popularity: User experience management (UX) practices center around how…
August 31, 2021
Confusing Digitization and Digitalization Could Doom Your Procurement Transformation
Digitization v. Digitalization - is there really a difference? As it turns out, there is. Taking the wrong approach could…
August 25, 2021
Defining the ‘Source to Cash’ Process
During last week’s AOP Live session with Joe Payne and Jennifer Ulrich from Corcentric, I asked Joe to define the…