Is Your Sourcing Organisation Best-in-Class?

By Mickey North Rizza

If you’re like many CPOs and procurement executives, you often run the gauntlet of finance and others asking for details on annualised savings numbers. Cost savings remain a major component of the value that strategic sourcing offers most organizations and, as with many things in life, what’s good can always be better.

And Now for Something Completely Different...

By Sarah Clarke

At the last Real World Sourcing Series briefing of 2012, full of Christmas cheer and good will, I somehow found myself volunteering to join Guy Allen and a band of merry men to support them on a cycle trip to raise money for charity.

Giving the Economy a Boost: Andy Murray, the Ashes, a Heat Wave and the Royal Baby

by Richard Hogg

I stumbled across something quite odd on the BBC last week: three positive stories about the UK economy...

The Sourcing Revolution - Market Informed Sourcing

We're gearing up for the return of the 2013 Real World Sourcing Series in September, in partnership with Spend Matters and industry expert Guy Allen.

Registration for the fourth briefing in the series is now open.

The Problem with Procurement – Is there really only one?

Authored by Claire Sexton

The global procurement director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) wrote a new Harvard Business Review blog post that has been the source of many conversations in our office recently about what procurement can do better and what’s stopping that progress.

Going Beyond Supply Chain Risk Basics

Authored by Claire Sexton

My American colleagues often read Deloitte’s ongoing series in the Wall Street Journal regarding supply chain issues. One of the consultancy’s latest articles was about risk in the supply chain and the questions they often are asked.

Procurement – Its Own Worst Enemy? (Part Three)

By Sarah Clarke

Spurred on by an article on procurement from the Harvard Business Review, which highlighted poor communications in procurement teams both with internal and external stakeholders, I decided to write a couple of posts around some tools that can assist with communications.

Procurement – Its Own Worst Enemy? (Part Two)

By Sarah Clarke

Yesterday we took a look at an article on procurement from the Harvard Business Review, which highlighted poor communications in procurement teams both with internal and external stakeholders.

Procurement – Its Own Worst Enemy? (Part One)

by Sarah Clarke

I recently read a post from the Harvard Business Review titled ‘The Problem with Procurement’. It was an interesting read and I’d recommend any procurement professional to go and take a quick look.