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Cortera — A New D&B Competitor in the Supply Risk Content Market (Part 1)
Every week, I try to give myself an hour or two to surf the web and do research on companies and news that I might not otherwise come across in the regular contingent of sites and publications I peruse...
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Cortera — A New D&B Competitor in the Supply Risk Content Market(Part 2)
In my first column tackling Cortera, a new upstart that provides supply risk content that competes against D&B, Equifax and others, I examined their potentially disruptive business model. Today,...
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Gartner to Acquire AMR Research: Supply Chain and Procurement Analyst Game Over?
Image by mkrigsman via Flickr Earlier this morning, Gartner announced that it was acquiring AMR Research. For those who are not familiar with AMR, the firm, for the longest time, has been the most...
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Shameless Plug: MetalMiner Turns Two
MetalMiner, Spend Matters’ sister publication focused on metals sourcing, turned two today. Three years younger than Spend Matters, the site is nonetheless following in the virtual steps of this...
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McKinsey Bids Adieu to Anil Kumar
Late this afternoon, a Reuters story hit the wire confirming that Anil Kumar, a former McKinsey Director, was no longer with the firm following an internal investigation. Reuters quotes an email note...
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Ariba Exchange: Social Media Meets P2P Expertise Meets Category Knowledge
I’ve been trolling around the Ariba Exchange quite a bit in the past couple of weeks. The site, along with Ariba SupplyWatch provides some of the best free content I’ve seen out there in the market....
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Coupa Heads for the Clouds — eProcurement, T&E and Beyond (Part 2)
The most important functional announcement in Coupa’s latest release (you can read the first post in this series here) is a new expense reporting capability designed to provide organizations with an...
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Coupa Heads for the Clouds — eProcurement, T&E and Beyond (Part 3)
In this post, I’ll continue my analysis of Coupa’s T&E capabilities by walking through a typical submission and approval process (read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series here). I know this sounds...
View ArticleSupplier Enablement and E-Invoicing: Lessons Learned From a Fortune 500...
There’s no substitute for learning from experience when it comes to supplier enablement for e-invoicing programs. Earlier this year, our research team spoke with the P2P process owner and head of...
View ArticleProcurement Talent Management: An Introduction
Earlier this week, Deloitte launched its latest procurement paper, Procurement Talent Management: Exceptional Outcomes Require Exceptional People, a rather provocative analysis – especially for a...
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