Magnus Mondays — Category Management: All Talk No Action?
When I started in procurement in what feels like way too many years ago, it was as a buyer. A few years later I got a new title, strategic buyer!…
Magnus Mondays: Direct Materials P2P — Is That a Thing?
Today I’m wrapping up our mini-series on direct materials and what differentiates it from indirect by looking at the transactional side — also known as procure to pay (P2P). Because…
Magnus Mondays — Direct Materials Supplier Management Presents a Critical but Disjointed Solution Landscape
In last week’s article, we looked at what makes direct materials special and their unique established requirements, particularly when focusing on eSourcing. In today’s article, we continue to investigate direct…
Magnus Mondays — Navigating the Raw Essentials: A Primer on Direct Materials
In one of my articles about suites vs. specialists, I briefly mentioned dedicating a future piece to direct materials. Today’s article will do just that. I’ll look at direct materials…
Magnus Mondays — Contract Lifecycle Management: A Different but Critical Procurement Technology
Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) has come a long way in the last 25 years or so. The technology started as simple databases where some key metadata was collected to enable…
Magnus Mondays: Don’t Believe the Hype! (Or at Least Apply Some Caution)
Back in 1996, Bill Gates wrote “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.…
Magnus Mondays — Graphite Connect: Supplier Management, Network Style
As part of the Magnus Mondays series featuring the latest procurement technology trends and insights, we will also spotlight interesting briefings and updates that we receive from different solution providers…
Magnus Mondays: It’s Time to Improve eSourcing Adoption
When I first started reading CPO Rising more than a decade ago, I remember Ardent’s founder and chief research officer, Andrew Bartolini, introducing the concept of eSourcing 2.0, which is…
Magnus Mondays: What’s in Store for 2024
As we close in on the end of the year and I settle in at Ardent Partners, I wanted to take a moment to look toward 2024. Rather than an…
Magnus Mondays: Procurement Tech — Suites vs. Specialists Part Five: The Final Factors
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve discussed the question of suites vs. specialists in the procurement technology space. As I mentioned in the first article, it’s not an either/or…