Recommended Webinars August 19-30: Ditching Contact Management, 3rd Party Risk, Single Source of Truth, Negotiations with Less Stress

5 Reasons Companies Are Ditching Their Contract Management System (IACCM, ContractRoom) August 20 th , 11am ET It used to be that contract management solutions were either fully standalone or loosely tethered to the rest of the source to pay suite. Despite the fact that user expectations have risen and the rest of the procurement platform is better integrated than ever, contract management ...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Weekly Event Recommendations on 19 August 2019

The July ISM-New York Report on Business: One Month at a Time

Report Rundown In July, New York City purchasing managers changed direction on every index except Expected Revenues - much like the dynamic observed in May. Current Business Conditions reached the lowest level reported in over three years (referencing 37.2 in May of 2016). Business conditions fell to 43.5 in July, down from the breakeven point of 50.0 in June. The Six-Month Outlook re...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Procurement on 02 August 2019

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...

By Arthur Piszczor

Posted in Guest Posts on 24 July 2019

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...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Buyers Meeting Point on 09 July 2019

Momentum and Sustainability Create Impact: How Marketing and Procurement Can Deliver Business Growth (Part 2)

Corporate America is School for Adults First, a trip down memory lane: school. Picture one classroom, where the academic fundamentals were learned, students became familiar with their environment, and an understanding of educational expectations were developed. After mastering this level, multiple classrooms were introduced, with various classmates, subjects, and group projects ...

By Kaitlyn Krigbaum

Posted in Guest Posts on 06 June 2019

When procurement looks in the mirror, what do we see?

This share gained 30K views, 40 comments, and over 200 likes in a very short time. ( Click here to view the original post on LinkedIn .) Some of the most compelling comments centered around four core ideas: Procurement must “own” our image Comment from Slav V. : “Like many other functions Procurement can and does exaggerate its value and maturity. Why not! Perception is reality.” Comme...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Procurement on 18 April 2019

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