Ever wondered how exactly to advance your career within procurement and get promotions? It is not a topic often talked about, but one that is often sought after. Here are …
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Practical Advice to help Procurement Weather the Pandemic
by Kelly Barnerby Kelly BarnerSeemingly overnight, every procurement professional’s top priority has become helping their company get through the COVID-19 pandemic and start preparing for the business conditions that are to follow. We now …
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Squirrelling Away – How panic buying is affecting the supply chain
As a result of the coronavirus outbreak, people have become like squirrels. Scared that their Government is, if it hasn’t already, going to implement a military style “total lockdown” to …
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Which came first: The transformation or the talent?
by Kelly Barnerby Kelly Barner“Some executives used to think of procurement as the place you send staff away in order to never see them again.” ~ Carlos Mena, Remko van Hoek, Martin Christopher, Leading …
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Using the B2C Online Shopping Experience as the Target for B2B Buying
by Kelly Barnerby Kelly BarnerIn procurement, we often discuss how buyer expectations relate to the buying experiences they have as individual online shoppers. We need to make eProcurement technology more intuitive, make procurement processes …
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What Will Artificial Intelligence for Sales Mean for Procurement?
by Kelly Barnerby Kelly BarnerOn March 6, the world was presented with an interesting new alliance to consider between Salesforce’s Einstein and IBM’s Watson. The ‘global strategic partnership’ will bring together Salesforce’s customer relationship data …
During the sourcing process, it is common for procurement to run several rounds of optimization scenarios. They are usually conducted either in advance of negotiation discussions with suppliers or before …
Up until the last few years, the concept of a stylish hybrid electric car was, well, somewhat of a misnomer for consumers. Take for example the poster boy for the …