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Adidas Marketing Procurement Director: ‘We need to help agencies deliver good work’
July 12, 2016Read MoreJuly 11, 2016 By: Seb Joseph Procurement and advertising agencies don’t always see eye-to-eye but the former can deliver more than just knock-down fees if it pulls in the same direction as marketing executives, according to Adidas’ marketing procurement director….
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Are you one of Procurement’s Game Changers?
July 8, 2016Read MoreJune 29, 2016 By: Tania Seary In a world increasingly recognising ‘disruption’ as a strategic business skill, where an army of highly talented and ambitious professionals are fighting their way to the front line in the war for talent, the…
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Transforming Procurement: How to Bring Colleagues Along
June 8, 2016Read MoreMay 18, 2016 By: Jennifer Kaelin Look at the ledgers of multiple retail companies and you will see a trend emerge: slim margins. In fact, the average retail company’s net margin is less than 7 percent — with many companies…
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Connecting the Dots: 5 Key Learnings from Interviewing Procurement Thought Leaders
June 8, 2016Read MoreJune 2, 2016 By: Philip Ideson I love working in procurement! From my first day as a Junior Buyer I got the bug and never looked back! However, our profession is now at the crossroads of profound change. Never before…
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The Five Secrets of Supplier Relationship Management
May 16, 2016Read MoreFebruary 17, 2015 By: Mickey North Rizza Supplier relationship management (SRM) is undergoing a major transition. Gone are the days where simply managing spend and finding the best deal possible within your supply base is enough – or easy. In…
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Did You Know: What #ProcurementCan Do For The Business
May 16, 2016Read MoreApril 29, 2016 By: Tim Burt #ProcurementCan is a new campaign from Procurement Leaders designed to spark debate about the good things that the function can do. Share your thoughts on what the function can do below or on Twitter…
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Transforming the Procurement Function from Within
April 18, 2016Read MoreMarch 15, 2016 By: Procurious It’s a tall order to come in and completely transform the procurement function within an iconic global company. But Kelly Irwin didn’t beat around the bush when she started as Head of Procurement at the…
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4 Tactics that Put Data Ahead of Drama when Making IT Procurement Decisions
April 18, 2016Read MoreMarch 17, 2016 By: John H. Johnson and Mike Gluck With IT budgets on the rise, and the average company spending 5% of its revenues on IT, according to one study, billions of dollars are being spent each year on…
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Ivalua Posts Record Year
March 31, 2016Read MoreIvalua posts record year, bumps up against 100% growth in new customers Announcing 30 new customers, 8 major product innovations and a place in the leaders’ Quadrant from Gartner. Redwood City, CA – March 29, 2016 – Ivalua, the leading…
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Procurement’s Soft Skill Puzzle
March 14, 2016Read MoreMarch 7, 2016 By: Maggie Slowik It’s a common answer to a common question: what procurement chiefs often want most in their staff is interpersonal skills. But is this becoming an unhelpful cliché? Procurement Leaders recently launched the Leadership in…
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