Continuing our new ?Travel Tuesday? column, this week we’ll cover some of the travel Spend Management basics. Today, I?ll refer Spend Matters? readers to a recent Purchasing Magazine study that provides a useful state of the market when it comes to t…
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Friday’s group discussion on Vested Outsourcing led by University of Tennessee faculty member Kate Vitasek went very well. For anyone unfamiliar with her work, Kate literally wrote the book on Vested Outsourcing, a model that utilizes incentives to create more strategic relationships between buying organizations and their outsourcing vendors. So when she stepped up and [...]
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Spend Matters research suggests that organizations collectively spend over a trillion dollars per year on a range of services categories. From legal to marketing to print to outsourcing, organizational spending across a breadth of often complicated a…
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More BOSM on this subject, because we understand that it’s a hot topic. In fact, rumor has it that the next-generation iPhone will have an app for this: press the appropriate icon, and a team of contingent workers will arrive at your door within an h…
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Services procurement has always been a key issue, but in this economy and market, it’s become a hotter topic than ever. In fact, I can’t think of a better example of this than the services that Jason has procured to manage Spend Matters in his absen…
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In the past few weeks, I’ve had the chance to catch up on the phone or
in person with many of the leading providers in the VMS-platform arena
(i.e., the underlying technology that serves the needs of contingent-workforce procurement) as well as…
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Even though I’ve written at length about SAP’s procurement portfolio
earlier this year, paying particular attention to recent developments
in the P2P (i.e., SRM) and E-Sourcing arenas, I thought it
worth spending a few posts providing an upd…
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When I first got a peek inside a full service e-sourcing process in
the late nineties, I quickly realized that, despite all the posturing
and spin behind how FreeMarkets and others positioned it, the
process was really more science than art….
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In my first column tackling the latest from Chicago-based VMS provider Fieldglass last week, I provided an overview of a number of the gaps they recently filled from a reporting, analytics, visualization and benchmarking perspective in their solution…
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Earlier this week, Dan Ashton hosted a webinar (replay here) with speakers from Travelers Insurance and Kelly Services to discuss the current opportunity for driving value in contingent labor procurement. Here he shares some of the key take-aways.
Justin Fogarty is Managing Editor of Supply Excellence. For any questions or feedback on the blog or its contributors, Justin can be reached at jfogarty[at]ariba.com.
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