
Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with…
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Welcome to Procurement News, part of our ongoing aggregate news series covering recent supply management headlines and trends pertinent to Chief Procurement Officers and other procurement leaders! Contact us with…

The London 2012 Olympics are still going full throttle through this Sunday and I’ve been doing my best to watch as much as I can. This year, approximately 10,500 athletes…
In doing research on how different organizations attack procurement fraud, I became very impressed by the level of detail included in the United Nations’ policies. In particular, I think the…
Publisher’s Note: Procurement fraud is a complex topic and one we take very seriously. For more information on procurement fraud, make sure to review the “Related Articles” at the bottom…
As I was reviewing our coverage of Procurement Fraud, and looking at how to best summarize it (something I will do at the end of the series), I realized that…
Long time readers of this site know that I am a strong advocate for eSourcing. I am an advocate based upon extensive first-hand experience developing, using, researching, and evaluating eSourcing…
Yesterday, in Part One of this story, we provided some background and then outlined the news from SciQuest (Ticker: SQI) that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Contract…
On Tuesday, after the market closed, SciQuest (ticker: SQI), a provider of cloud-based supply management solutions, announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Upside Software Inc. (“Upside”),…
Earlier today, Vishal Patel, Director of ePayables Research at Ardent Partners posed an interesting question on Ardent’s new site, Payables Place, regarding the amount of paper invoices in the marketplace…

Our procurement fraud series began with the premise that procurement fraud is an issue for public AND private enterprises although we read more about it in the public sector. As…

In my last article, Procurement Fraud Remains An Issue for All CPOs, I directly quoted a globally recognized CPO who said that “The work is never done; procurement fraud remains…
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