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News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10
After 11 months of behind the scenes work, CEO Charles Phillips and the Infor management team unveiled the launch of Infor 10 in New York City on September 13, 2011, to customers, industry analysts,...
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Walmart — Investing in Diversity (Women-Owned Businesses, That Is) For the...
When supplier diversity becomes simply a whisper down the lane, reporting exercise built around a check-the-box mentality for Federal reporting, it’s pretty clear what the ultimate outcome of such...
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Zara and Beyond: Does Your Supply Chain Support Modern Slavery? (Part 2)
Supply chain slavery is a topic that’s getting more attention than any time in recent memory. CNN and others have covered the topic in detail of late, calling attention to a new website and mobile app...
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Bruce Richardson Asks: Are We Ready for Social Supply Chains? (Part 1)
Perhaps the best-known analyst in ERP and supply chain history, Bruce Richardson, is finally independent again after a stint at Infor. Only a couple of months into this newfound freedom, he’s launched...
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New Research: E-Invoicing Comes of Age – History, Solution Features,...
We’ve done it again. Spend Matters has made yet another attempt at distilling an important topic into a piece of core research that we hope will become essential reading for companies both getting...
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Hubwoo and SAP Look Forward — Which Dog is Wagging Which Tail? (Part 2)
Please click here for the first post in this series. One thing that is clear in looking at Hubwoo’s customer momentum around the SAP product set is how the vendor is benefiting from general SAP...
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Oracle’s Endeca Acquisition — An Initial Take
Earlier this week, Oracle announced it had entered into an agreement to buy Endeca. For those in the procurement, supply chain and manufacturing worlds who don’t know Endeca, you should. They...
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Procurement Acquisition Alert: What is Oracle Getting From Endeca? (Part 1)
Oracle’s acquisition of Endeca has the potential to go down as one of the best enterprise analytics/applications/search deals in history. Because Endeca’s Latitude solutions are such a complement to...
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Announcing Commodity Edge — a New Type of Sourcing and Procurement Conference
I’d wager that among Spend Matters readers, I’ve probably attended more procurement and supply chain conferences than most. Yet virtually no events I’ve been to have had a consistent focus on economic...
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20 Ways the Falling Euro May Impact Sourcing, Procurement and Supply Chain...
Please click here for Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. As our analysis of 20 ways in which the falling Euro and Eurozone volatility might impact sourcing, procurement and supply chain strategies...
View ArticleNew Research: Stop Waiting for a Supplier Network Revolution — P2P, Supplier...
Spend Matters is excited to announce the publication of our latest Perspective: Getting Past the Existential Connectivity Funk: Stop Waiting for the Supplier Network Revolution. Here at Spend Matters,...
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Big Data and Procurement: Get Ready (Some Context First) — Part 1
Image credit: T. McCracken The New York Times ran an excellent primer on the subject of Big Data last weekend. If you missed it, I strongly recommend tapping into your 10 free stories a month (even if...
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Will E-Invoicing (in Certain Cases) Remain Free?
Over on Purchasing Insight, Pete Loughlin recently waxed eloquent on the topic of whether or not E-Invoicing should remain free(Pete also slyly hinted at how he wastes time when not consulting on or...
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Friday Rant: How Much Does Your Sourcing and Supply Chain Consultant Make?
Over on our sister site Healthcare Matters, my partner in crime Tom Finn recently published a post titled: How Much Does Your Doctor Make?. Tom begins by quoting “an old joke about a housewife who...
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Supply Risk: HP and Hardware — Yet Another Reason to Focus on Sub-Tier Suppliers
Most of our attention around supply risk in the past few years has been diverted to deploying preemptive strategies and programs to identify, manage and mitigate supplier financial risk and to...
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The End of Global Sourcing as We Know It? The MIT/Sloan View (Part 2)
Please click here for the first post in this series. In an article in MIT Sloan Management Review, supply chain academics and experts David Simchi-Levi, James Paul Peruvankal, Narendra Mulani and Bill...
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KPMG to Acquire BrainNet — Initial Reporting, Analysis and Recommendations
On Friday, KPMG announced it was acquiring European-based procurement and supply chain consultancy, BrainNet. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, Spend Matters estimates the value of the...
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Some Secrets of the Industry Analyst Briefing
Over on Spend Matters PRO, my colleague Peter Smith recently penned a must-read column for software providers, BPOs and consultants in the procurement and supply chain ecosystem: Providers Take Note:...
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Cost Management Failures: 10 Reasons SMBs Stink at Procurement
Last week, we began a blog series exploring the state of procurement in the small and middle market sectors. See 2013: The Year of Source-To-Pay Adoption for SMB Procurement and 3 Essential...
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The SAP Business Suite and HANA
Most folks using procurement technology would rather not get into the underlying bits and bytes of technology architecture, let alone the nuances of database technology. For the most part this makes...
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