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Magnus Mondays — Services and CoEs in a Next-Gen Procurement Tech World

By Magnus Bergfors October 28, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

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

By Magnus Bergfors October 21, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Technology

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

By Magnus Bergfors October 14, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

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 — Zip Forward 2024 — When Procurement Flows, Business Flows

By Magnus Bergfors September 30, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

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

By Magnus Bergfors September 23, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Process, Strategy, Technology

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

By Magnus Bergfors September 16, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy, Technology

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

By Magnus Bergfors September 3, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy, Technology

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

By Magnus Bergfors August 26, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Strategy, Technology

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,…

Magnus Mondays — The Proliferation of eSourcing

By Magnus Bergfors August 19, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

A couple of months ago I wrote an article on innovation in the eSourcing space. New (relatively at least) solution providers like Globality, Pactum, Arkestro, and Fairmarkit have entered the…

Magnus Mondays — A Couple of Truths on IM&PPO and S2P Solutions

By Magnus Bergfors August 12, 2024Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Complex Categories, General, People, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology

This summer I’ve done considerable research into the Intake Management and Procurement Process Orchestration (IM&PPO) space. It’s a relatively new and exciting area and an example of the resurgence of…