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Recommended Procurement Webinars Oct 21-15: Revolutionary CLM, Predictive S2P and AI Powered Transformation
How CLM Is Revolutionizing the Way Companies Spend Money (Coupa, IACCM) October 22 nd , 11am ET If your contracting process seems slow and cumbersome, you’re not alone. But what is the true cost to the business to continue tolerating it? Paul Branch, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technical Officer at IACCM, and Scott Mars, Global VP Sales, CLM at Coupa, will talk about the benefits of b...
Why Your RFP Responses are Failing
A Short List of Big Problems with RFPs “But wait,” I hear you say, “if these suppliers are best-in-class, wouldn’t losing the RFP show how terrible they are?” This is potentially true. Critics of RFPs are quick to point out that the process: Kills differentiation. Responses are all geared towards the same direct questions, and the elements of your business that are unique may not stand out in this...
The September ISM-New York Report on Business: Proceed with Caution
Report Rundown In September, New York City purchasing managers expressed milestone pessimism about the long term indicators, the Six-Month Outlook and Expected Revenues. Current Business Conditions fell to a 40-month low of 42.8 in September (referencing 37.2 in May 2016), down from August's 4-month high of 50.3. The Six-Month Outlook dropped 26.2 points to reach 45.2 in September, from 71....
Trade Wars, Not So Easy?
From the point of view of the White House, trade wars might still generate a big win, but in the meantime, it has been very hard on companies with long supply chains that run through China or depend on aluminum and steel. The moves and countermoves by the U.S. and China, in particular, have rattled investors and in the worst case, could tip the global economy toward a recession. The research firm ...
Empowering Procurement to Drive M&A Activity
Get a baseline understanding of the data: What, how and from whom are you buying? Having a basic understanding of each business unit’s data is critical. You want to make sure you are comparing apples to apples. Regardless of the procurement software used, make sure you are pulling data from the same timeframe, using the same data headers, and standardized Units of Measure (UoM). Consult acc...
Answer: Sometimes people are just jerks
Some of the questions were easy: What was one of my early hobbies? Rowing – I went to one of the only public schools in Massachusetts (at the time anyway) that had a crew team, and so I walked straight into the Varsity boat in college. Fun fact: I rowed the Head of the Charles 4 times. Where did I go to school? Clark University (B.A. English and History), Simmons College (M.S. Library and Informat...
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We've all seen RFP responses that range from good to bad to “why on earth would you submit this?” levels of ugly. W… https://t.co/rhe77e5OuX
