Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Spend Management
Procurement leaders are making a step-change in spend analysis and are looking at spend management as a platform to support an analytical, data-driven approach to managing procurement and operations on a sustainable basis. Not simply about good data, successful spend management should highlight compliance leakages, be repeatable, results driven and realize savings.
Spend management is crucial for all companies, and in gaining visibility of spend across global, multi-industry company’s with big ERP systems it is hot on the agenda.
SPEND MANAGEMENT NEWS
- UK wasting 'hundreds of millions' on defence procurement
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:50:31 - RailCorp on track to 'transform' procurement processes
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:15:08 - Banks force UK firms to find finance on credit cards
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:35:33 - Analysis: Services spend an antidote to continued economic gloom
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:25:22 - IT procurement budgets set to 'soar' in EMEA
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:50:31
SPEND MANAGEMENT COMMENT
SPEND MANAGEMENT ARTICLES
- Thought leaders: Demand management

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:50:57 - Roundtable: Business alignment, London

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:35:14 - Roundtable: Marketing spend, New York

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:28:16 - Marketing spend: To retain or not to retain…

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:23:10 - Roundtable: Business travel, Brussels

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:05:45
SPEND MANAGEMENT PRESENTATIONS
How cross-functional collaboration can help you to deliver year-over-year efficiencies and achieve Procurement Excellence 
In C-level suites and boardrooms around the world, procurement is increasingly viewed as a strategic function. As CEOs and CFOs are coming to understand supply chain’s impact not only on the bottom line but in addition on the top line, cross-functional collaboration has never been more important.
How to find a positive return-on-investment for environmentally friendly purchasing 
The decision to move CPO John Paterson’s office from Somers, NY, to Asia proved that in a truly globally integrated enterprise a company’s worldwide capability can be located wherever in the world. It may also make the most sense, based on the imperatives of economics, expertise and open environments.
SPEND MANAGEMENT OPINIONS
- Inside View: Let the cull continue

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:23:23 - Inside View: Pass on the knowledge

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:03:43 - Network view: Growing pains

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:21:00 - Opinion: In the driving seat

Wed, 02 May 2007 07:55:29
SPEND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
- Bridging the European Talent Gap Offshoring through a Virtual Captive SM
Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:22:47 - Succeeding with New Procurement Strategies in a Changing Economy
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:41:42 - Purchasing Marketing Services
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:55:31 - A guide to tax - Efficient procurement
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:04:00 - Travel & Expense Management Market
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:24:00



