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Is e-Procurement Free For Buyers?

Mercell

A few weeks ago, I had a great meeting and demo at a medium sized government agency. Now why do I think this is not in the best overall interest of procurement professionals? 4 reasons: The software company’s revenue for the free solution will come from suppliers, not from government agencies. The suppliers!

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The Keys to Successful Digital Transformation – You Must Spot the Differences

ivalua

As procurement faces an ever-growing list of objectives, digital transformation becomes ever more critical. No surprise then that there is hardly a procurement organization out there that has not started or is now contemplating digital transformation. The first is a drastically exaggerated sense of progress among procurement leaders.

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Lessons from the Latest Forrester Wave Reports

ivalua

It covers spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant. Procurement leaders today see the value of suites and the market has responded. The Winner Takes it All.

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Striving for data excellence: How the Netherlands’ TenderNed is enabling procurement insights for government and public users

Open Contracting Partnership

To shed light on the value of having high-quality procurement data, we spoke to product owner Hans Minkes at TenderNed , the Dutch government’s online tendering system and one of the agencies furthest along in implementing eForms among the EU Member States. The rest come from commercial applications.

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How to ride the Source to Pay Wave? 4 Lessons you can learn from Forrester

ivalua

It covers spend analysis , sourcing, contract management and supplier risk and performance management (SRPM), similar in scope to Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Application Suites Magic Quadrant. Procurement leaders today see the value of suites and the market has responded. Lesson 2: The Winner Takes it All.

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The Ukrainian DREAM: Making wartime reconstruction digital and accountable

Open Contracting Partnership

Working with the Ukrainian government, especially the Ministry and Agency for Restoration as well as our friends in the RISE Ukraine Coalition , we were delighted to unveil the demo version of a Digital Reconstruction Ecosystem for Accountable Management (DREAM) in June, to lead on making the reconstruction digitally coordinated and accountable.