In last month’s issue, Toby Sparrow, CEO of Dooka, introduced the idea that much value could be gained by using Business to Business (B2B) Marketplaces in carrying out Indirect and Tail-spend, which usually costs a lot more than it should. Here he unpacks the concept of being less rigid and deriving more value from the […]
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What a waste of time and money if your staff ultimately don’t adopt the new tech! But prevention is the best cure with these three steps, advises Katarzyna Fonteyn, Director, Procurement Product Management at Basware, in this article published by Precurious. If your employees don’t buy-in to your purchase system, then nothing else matters.
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Where are you on your digital journey, and what barriers do you need to overcome within your organisations? Lubos Libiak, Customer & Delivery Executive at Cirtuo in the Czech Republic, shares with SmartProcurement his concern that many organisations have the budgets available, yet they’re still unable to advance on their digital journey. Businesses in Africa
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Absa’s Head of Procurement – Digital Solutions, Innovation & Technology, Craig Vaughan, talks to SmartProcurement about the evolution of procurement right up to the age of Information Technology (IT) sourcing, and how professionals in the industry can extract maximum value by embracing Technology Business Management (TBM). The role of procurement or sourcing teams has
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African nations are at an extraordinary place on the world stage right now. If the current momentum in change and technology adoption continues, that long-awaited “global superpower” status will materialise faster than anyone expected. This was the observation of Toby Sparrow, CEO of Dooka, and one of the key speakers at the SmartProcurement 2022 IT
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Ecovadis – global leader in sustainability ratings and enterprise solutions, sponsors of Smart Procurement World’s first Sustainability Summit Africa in 2022, as well as the next event on 10 May 2023 – provides this reality check on the biodiversity crisis that affects all businesses and urgently requires their decision to be part of the solution.
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Since the 1990s, with the launch of Amazon, there has been a revolution in the way people buy things. Now, the same revolution that started for us as consumers three decades ago, is starting for businesses, Samuel Oppenheimer, head of strategy at Dooka, tells SmartProcurement. It started slowly but became exponential. In 2021 over 2
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“Sourcing processes can be as challenging and complex as they come,” says Zurich-based Procurement Executive, Oliver Engelbrecht, a highly experienced enabler of top level teams and optimiser of business. In this article, Oliver shares insights with Smart Procurement on one of the most dynamic trends in sourcing – hardware. For sourcing and procurement professionals, the
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(Part 1): The evolving legal frameworks Spend Matters – an Austrian-based company covering procurement technology for supplier management and sourcing – has begun a 3-part series looking into how a combination of process and technology can help root out and combat forced labour and modern slavery in global supply chains. The company’s senior analyst, Bertrand
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Businesses which neglect to embrace Big Data will be left behind in the fast-moving world of procurement technology, warns Swiss-based procurement specialist, Oliver Engelbrecht. In a world where hundreds of social apps and platforms are being developed on a daily basis, while billions of people are sharing copious amounts of information every millisecond, rapid growth
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