Magnus Mondays — Feature, Product, or Company?
When I joined Ardent Partners a year ago, my very first article was about the proliferation of procurement solutions. My experience at the DPW conference and, perhaps to a lesser…
Magnus Mondays — Services and CoEs in a Next-Gen Procurement Tech World
During the last couple of weeks, I’ve attended a few great conferences (shoutout to Zip, Keelvar, DPW and SAP). Several discussions and observations from these conferences point to how the…
Magnus Mondays — SAP Spend Connect: Data, Intelligence, and Suite
I spent last week in Las Vegas attending SAP Spend Connect. Spend Connect is the evolution of the old Ariba Live and now covers the entirety of SAP Intelligent Spend…
Magnus Mondays — Conferences, Innovations, and Sore Feet
This time of the year is always full of conferences and last week was certainly a whirlwind! Early Tuesday morning I flew down to Amsterdam for Keelvar Konnect and on…
Magnus Mondays — The Supplier Management Tech Series — Part 5: Supplier Innovation and Development
Today, we are wrapping up our series on supplier management technology with an article on Supplier Innovation and Development (SI&D). This is an area with less attention from a technology-support…
Magnus Mondays — Zip Forward 2024 — When Procurement Flows, Business Flows
Last week I had the pleasure of attending Zip’s annual user conference Zip Forward. It was hosted at the iconic SF Jazz in central San Francisco. It marked my second…
Magnus Mondays — The Supplier Management Tech Series — Part 4: Supplier Risk Management
In our series on supplier management, we have now come to supplier risk. This is one of the most complex areas in the entire procurement technology space because risk management…
Magnus Mondays — The Supplier Management Tech Series — Part 3: Supplier Performance Management
Three weeks ago, I started a series on the components of supplier management solutions. So far we’ve covered the platform capabilities (i.e., functionalities used across the other components/modules) and Supplier…
Magnus Mondays — The Supplier Management Tech Series — Part 2: Supplier Information Management
Last week we started a series of articles on supplier management. In that article, we covered some of the functionality that’s needed across all the components of supplier management. This…
Magnus Mondays — The Supplier Management Tech Series — Part 1: Platform Capabilities
Supplier management is a complex and critical activity for procurement organizations. A key problem is that many procurement professionals lack the tools needed to efficiently manage supplier relationships, information, performance,…