Sarah Scudder

About:

Sarah Scudder is president of Real Sourcing Network (RSN), a print and marketing sourcing tool software company.

Sarah Scudder has spunk. Sarah Scudder is a go-getter who has gone out and got.

Proof?

Sarah is the youngest executive to ever serve on the board for the Print Services and Distribution Association (PSDA). Sarah is the brainchild behind ProcuRising, the cutting edge magazine that gives voice to industry leaders, writers, and entrepreneurs in the marketing and procurement space.

Sarah hosts thought leadership ProcuremenTalks around the country and coordinates events for the Global Women Procurement Professionals (GWPP). Sarah speaks at several annual sourcing industry events and hosts multiple webinars. She also co-authors a column for the Sourcing Industry Group (SIG)’s Future of Sourcing publication and Institute of Supply Management (ISM)’s “Inside Supply Management” newsletter.

Awards?

Sarah won the Sourcing Industry Group (SIG) Future of Sourcing Rising Star award. Sarah is a winner of the North Bay Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award. Sarah won the Print+Promo’s Trailblazer Under 40 award. Sarah also won the Print Services & Distribution Association (PSDA)’s Member of the Year award.

But none of the above matters. What matters is that Sarah Scudder treats everyone with respect, and it is her desire to make the world a better place. She is well on her way.

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Apr 04, 2019 0

What to Look For in Print Sourcing Software

Dedicated procurement software applications have existed since the 1990s, and their use is still growing. By 2025, more than 50% of large and mid-size companies around the world will have deployed procure-to-pay applications, according to Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites.

General procurement software works well...

Mar 09, 2019 0

What the Resurgence of Print-Based Marketing Means for Procurement

In 1897, while Mark Twain was in London on a speaking tour, someone started a rumor that he was gravely ill. Another rumor was that he had died. When a newspaper reporter asked Twain for his response to these rumors, he replied, “The report of my death was an exaggeration.”

Some marketing pundits have been predicting the demise of print-based marketing for most of the past two decades. These pundits usually point to the proliferation of...

Jan 31, 2019 0

Four Steps for Sourcing Pros to Win the Hearts of Marketers

These passages from John Gray’s best-seller "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" could be applied to procurement and marketing. It can seem at times as if they are from different planets.

And the result is a relationship that is often tenuous at best. Marketers see procurement as an overbearing watchdog that must be kept on as tight a leash as possible. Meanwhile, many sourcing professionals view marketing as the poster child for...

Dec 28, 2018 0

Introducing...Women in Global Sourcing

I have a passion for style and design. I like handbags, stilettos and lipstick so much that before I stumbled on sourcing during my senior year of college I planned on a career in fashion. I had recently finished my Alpha Gamma Delta sorority presidency and volunteered to coordinate Lip Jam, our largest fundraiser of the year benefiting diabetes. I hired a local print management company to source all the print, apparel and promotional items for the event. Out of nowhere, they offered me a...

Nov 20, 2018 0

Exploring On-Demand Purchased Service Solutions

The management of purchased services continues to lag relative to other categories of spend. And while the reasons are varied and debatable, virtually no one argues the availability of big savings opportunities. So what gives? No doubt, the decentralized nature of many purchased services confounds attempts to introduce more manageable processes. And we can’t overlook the “stiff arm” that procurement leaders often receive from stakeholders who treat certain categories of...

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