Within purchasing departments, and particularly in indirect procurement, the trend is towards the digitisation of transactions. This emerges from the Manutan Group's survey of its 545 French key account customers ove...
It is well known that negotiating and signing a contract with a supplier is one thing, but applying it in the field is quite another. The deployment of contracts represents a pivotal step as purchasing departments put th...
The Oregon Department of Administrative Services conducted an audit of procurement practices in the state of Oregon (USA). The American state, which currently uses out-of-date systems and inefficient processes, is assess...
The aim of e-procurement is to dematerialise commercial transactions between businesses and their suppliers via digital solutions in order to optimise the procurement process.
Indirect purchases (or class C purchases) are products or services bought to ensure that a company runs smoothly, but that are one-off and non-strategic purchases. This procurement category therefore necessitates specifi...
The maturity of indirect procurement organisations varies greatly from company to company, regardless of their type of business. To identify the position of your organisation, an essay by Décision Achats recommends follo...
Zycus, a leading procurement solutions provider, has identified four technologies that will influence procurement, and specifically the platforms used at present. These are Artificial Intelligence, analytics, mobile devi...
PunchOut is a type of electronic catalogue that plays an important part in e-procurement solutions. It allows companies to gain direct access to the offer that they negotiated with their suppliers.
At the 2018 Big Ideas Summit in London, around fifteen procurement decision-makers were asked about the automation of their profession. Their thoughts, recorded on video, paint a picture of an exciting future with the au...
The industrial vending machine market is set to double in ten years' time, from 720 million dollars in 2016 to 1430 million dollars in 2025 . These vending machines, commonly used in the snacking industry, are now be...
