Reporting on Fusion 2014 and Concur’s Impressive T&E Solution
Categories: Conferences, Cost Management, Services and Indirect Spend, Solution Providers, TravelTags: Plus, TechnologyConcur – the company best known for its travel and expense reporting solution – is...
View ArticleCritics Blast FedEx’s Dimensional Weight and Fuel Surcharge Changes
Categories: Cost Management, Guest Post, Industry News, LogisticsTags: NPI, Sourcing and CategoriesThese parcel shipping cost increases will cast a long shadow across the supply chain – particularly in...
View ArticleWill the Cost of Energy Increase? On Statistics from the US Energy...
Categories: Commodities, Cost Management, Industry NewsTags: PROOf all the things procurement buys, nothing is more critical to business operations than energy – both price and availability. The US...
View ArticleExpanding the Scope of Should-Cost Analysis
Categories: Analysis, Cost Management, Guest PostTags: GEP, Process and Best Practice“Should-cost analysis” or “clean sheeting” is an advanced procurement technique primarily employed in the direct...
View ArticleThe Hospital Revenue Problem, and How Better IT Cost Control Can Help
Categories: Cost Management, Healthcare MattersTags: NPI, Process & Best PracticeSpend Matters welcomes a guest post written by Jon Winsett, CEO of NPI, a spend management consultancy, focused on...
View ArticleWhen Savings Kills: How a 1-inch Change is Costing Trinity Millions
Categories: Cost Management, Purchasing, Supply RiskTags: General News, L1Earlier this month, we heard how Trinity Industries, the maker of many of the guardrails installed along America’s highways,...
View ArticleFrank Boyer Takes Over as CPO at Sprint
Categories: Breaking News, Cost Management, ProcurementTags: General News, L2Sprint has hired a new chief procurement officer (CPO) in an effort to improve the wireless carrier’s standings in the...
View ArticleAWS Unveils Simplified, Flexible Pricing for Cloud Services
Categories: Cost Management, Guest Post, TechnologyTags: Guest Posts, NPI, TechnologySpend Matters welcomes this guest post by Jeff Muscarella, EVP, IT Spend Management Services at NPI, a spend...
View ArticleThe Importance of Due Diligence
Categories: Best Practice, Cost Management, Guest Post, SourcingTags: GEP, Guest Posts, Process and Best PracticeSpend Matters welcomes this guest post by Apurva Malewar of GEP. Emerging demands on...
View ArticleAttacking Costs in Healthcare: Tactical Procurement Can Address Up to 40% of...
Categories: Cost Management, Healthcare Matters, Procurement Strategy & Planning, Supply Chain ManagementTags: L2, Process and Best PracticeThere’s often a mistaken viewpoint that says labor costs...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar: Scouting Premium Talent While Controlling Cost, Risk
Categories: Cost Management, Learning / Research, Services Procurement & Contingent Labor ManagementTags: General NewsIn the competitive landscape that is high-performing organizations in business,...
View ArticleControlling Plant Maintenance Spend at the Source
Categories: Cost Management, Guest Post, Procurement Strategy & PlanningTags: GEP, Guest Posts, Process & Best PracticeSpend Matters welcomes this guest article by Joel Johnson of GEP....
View ArticleThe Staples-Office Depot Merger: How Should CPOs Respond?
Categories: Best Of Spend Matters, Cost Management, Industry News, M&A, ProcurementTags: CPO, General News, L2Over on our sister site, Chief Procurement Officer, we recently started a series...
View ArticleNEW Webinar: Procurement Savings We Promise You’ve Missed
Categories: Cost Management, ProcurementTags: Process & Best Practice, WebinarWe've talked about savings in procurement in the past, and depending on your role, chances are you know a thing or 2...
View ArticleGlobal Trade Technology: Compliance, Sourcing and Beyond
Categories: Cost Management, Procurement, Risk Performance and Compliance, Sourcing, World TradeTags: L2, TechnologyIn a recent column on Supply Chain Digest, J. Anthony Hardenburgh provides a...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Supply Chain Work Harder for You With Less Labor
Categories: Cost Management, Guest Post, Supply Chain, Talent ManagementTags: Guest Posts, Process & Best PracticeSpend Matters welcomes this guest article by Aleksejs Volcenkovs, chief marketing...
View ArticleLessons Learned From the Airline Industry: How Procurement Can Benefit Mature...
Categories: Cost Management, Guest Post, OutsourcingTags: GEP, Guest Posts, Process & Best PracticeSpend Matters welcomes this guest post from Eleonore de Montjoye, of GEP. Like other mature...
View ArticleWhat Do Procurement and Saturday Night Live Have in Common? Cheeseburgers, Of...
Categories: Cost Management, Friday Rant, Procurement CommentaryTags: Incendiary Tidbits, L2Do you consider your procurement organization to be customer-centric? Are you really concerned about it? The...
View ArticleICYMI: A ‘Procurement Saint’s’ Take on the Staples-Office Depot Merger
Categories: Cost Management, Industry News, M&ATags: General News, L1Earlier this week, Spend Matters Founder and Head of Strategy Jason Bush wondered how the late Thomas Stemberg, founder of...
View ArticleSpend Compliance – The Framework: 50 Shades of Pay (Part 15)
Categories: Analytics, Cost Management, Procurement Strategy & Planning, Spend AnalysisTags: PlusIn previous installments of our 50 Shades of Pay series, we dove into spend analytics related to...
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