

The Invisible Connection Between ESG and Supply Chain Resilience
When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit, many organizations discovered that their supply chains were far less resilient than they had...


3 Effective Ways Procurement Can Transform with CRM
Taking action is a snap with document templates and email integration that ensures critical communications to suppliers and stakeholders are


Enhancing Supplier Performance. Building the Business Case for SRM (Part 1)
Savings from strategic sourcing can be eroded by inadequate supplier performance management and collaboration (or lack of collaboration).


Improving Procurement Efficiency - Building the Business Case for SRM (Part 2)
We are at LUPR, focusing on improving procurement efficiency, which can dramatically reduce non-value add (NVA) activities performed by proc


Enabling Supplier Innovation - Building the Business Case for SRM (Part 3)
Value-added innovation is anything promoting efficiency or mitigating risk and can be as mundane as getting a supplier to license technology


Get Your Cut of the Tax Cut
We can readily see how the new tax law is benefiting investors, employees, and communities (via more investment) but I bet no one out there


LUPR: Vendor Snapshot (Part 1) — Background and Solution Overview by Spend Matters
While not all procurement groups have adopted the “supplier” flavor of customer lifecycle management — that is, supplier relationship...


Procurement is about to undergo another paradigm shift.
Supplier managers will be more productive and effective in the near future as we embrace the emerging technologies of collaboration, social


Top 3 Roadblocks to Supplier Collaboration
Collaboration is quickly changing the way we live. We collaborate to find the best route to work via Waze, to find the best place to eat vi