Women in Global Sourcing: Stephanie Leduc
Posted: 07/25/2019 - 01:20
The Hidden Stories Behind Global Internet Attacks
Posted: 07/23/2019 - 04:34
In today’s world, organisations are facing all manners of security threats– from ransomware and phishing to attacks on supply chains or compromise by insiders with malicious intent.
Women in Global Sourcing: Amanda Prochaska
Posted: 07/19/2019 - 05:54
Tell us about your career path. How did you get into this field? Was it purposeful or by accident?
Stop Faking Cultural Understanding: 5 Tips for Building Effective Relationships Overseas
Posted: 07/17/2019 - 07:11
As the world continues to shrink and the global supply chain grows, it’s not enough to invest minimally in your international relationships—it means truly understanding the people and culture you’re working with. These relationships can become a valuable asset to your business, giving you an advantage over competitors.
What IT Procurement Professionals Must Know about Data Center Hardware Maintenance RFPs
Posted: 07/16/2019 - 03:59
“We all want this to be a success,” is a pretty common sentiment at the outset of a major RFP. When considering hardware for data center maintenance services, in many cases, the outcome can mean significant cost containment for the IT group and accolades all around for a job very well done. And let’s face it, it is not only a fiduciary duty to avoid over-paying a vendor (even the original equipment manufacturer) it can be flat-out galling to think that your company has been over-paying for YEARS. So, damn straight, you want this to be a success!
Cognitive Automation: The Next Panacea or Evil Job Bandit?
Posted: 07/16/2019 - 00:37
While it’s impossible to predict exactly what the future holds as more enterprises and service providers adopt cognitive automation to improve many of their manual processes, reading the tea leaves—or better yet—looking at actual early use cases suggests it’s both: job thievery and, if not a panacea, some fairly drastic improvements in efficiency and quality results.
How AI Empowers Service Procurement and Adds Billions to a Company’s Bottom Line
Posted: 07/12/2019 - 00:12
For the modern enterprise, services done well often drive growth. For example, quality IT infrastructure services and/or outsourced marketing can accelerate a company’s competitive advantage in multiple ways.
Owning Complex Spend Categories
Posted: 07/11/2019 - 08:35
In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Antonio Humphreys. Antonio Humphreys is the Senior Manager, Global Procure to Pay at Adobe. His diversified career path took him into roles outside of his wheelhouse, which has allowed him to excel at Adobe within the marketing sourcing vertical.
Why Nearshoring and AI Go Hand-in-Hand
Posted: 07/11/2019 - 04:49
There’s growing momentum for Artificial Intelligence (AI) across a variety of industries, ranging from financial services and healthcare to manufacturing and environmental initiatives. It’s no wonder, given the power of AI to find patterns in vast amounts of data faster than humans ever could and to predict outcomes and behaviors.
Improve Contract Negotiations with Relationship Management
Posted: 07/10/2019 - 06:24
In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Danny Ertel. Danny Ertel is a Founding Partner with Vantage Partners located in Boston, Massachusetts. He joins the podcast to explain how procurement and supply chain teams can do more for the organization by aligning with the businesses that they support instead of acting as the “procurement police” and focusing only on enforcing policies.
How Supplier Diversity is Working in the Real World
Posted: 07/10/2019 - 01:21
Supplier diversity has been an important topic on the corporate agenda for most of the past five decades. Formal supplier diversity programs began in the 1960s in response to government programs that were designed to expand economic opportunities for minority-owned businesses. Today, “diverse suppliers” encompass several additional types of business organizations, including:
- Woman-owned business enterprises
10 Ways to Find Savings Through Analytics
Posted: 07/09/2019 - 06:48
Businesses need faster and more comprehensive spend management solutions, without the need for additional subject matter experts. To this end, our clients have benefited from improvements in insight and service delivery using 4C’s analytics platform 4Spend. Here are ten ways in which new savings can be found using analytics.
1.) Categorisation and Benchmarking
How Procurement Can Drive Business Insights
Posted: 07/09/2019 - 03:02
In this episode of the Sourcing Industry Landscape, Dawn Tiura interviews Nikesh Parekh. Nikesh Parekh is the CEO and Co-Founder of Suplari, an AI-powered spend accountability and financial performance system. Nikesh’s journey into procurement wasn’t a straight line.
Midwestern Regional SIGnature Event
Sourcing and procurement leaders are meeting in your area on May 14. These powerful one-day meetings bring together buy-side practitioners to benchmark with other organizations and network with colleagues facing similar issues. The event offers executive roundtables, general session speakers, lunch, CPO presentations, analyst overviews and SIG Talks (15-minute discussions in a "Ted Talk" format), as well as our famous Provider Showcase program.
November SIGnature Event - Transformation and Talent Optimization
Sourcing Industry Group will host sourcing and procurement industry leaders for a one-day networking event that features engaging presentations, team training and thought leadership that promotes innovation and addresses key challenges.
This meeting will convene on November 5 as a virtual event.
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