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How Do You Choose The Best Supplier?
February 18, 2023
How do you choose the best supplier?
Posted in: Supplier Relations
When are ESG initiatives bad for the supply chain?
February 11, 2023
Are ESG demands another threat to efforts to "unclog" port supply chains?
Posted in: Commentary
You’re Fired! A Bricks & Mortar Versus Virtual Debate
February 7, 2023
Do procurement professionals need to work from a physical office, or is a remote work environment more productive?
Posted in: Commentary
Should I Stay or Should I Go? What Keeps You with Your Present Company?
February 1, 2023
Why do you stay with your present company? Why would you leave?
Posted in: Career Exchange
The thin line between undue influence and relationship building in the public sector (A question for 2023)
January 26, 2023
What is the difference between undue influence and relationship building in the public sector RFP bidding process?
Posted in: Commentary, RFP
Why – in the digital age, is onboarding suppliers still a problem?
January 24, 2023
Why are the challenges with onboarding and proactively managing supplier and supplier risk in real time a problem?
Posted in: Commentary
Inflation Through a Generational Lens: More Than Just Rising Prices and Shrinking Value?
January 19, 2023
What is the best way for procurement to deal with inflation and shrinkflation – generationally speaking?
Posted in: Commentary
What role have spreadsheets played in the “evolution of procurement technology?”
January 13, 2023
What role do spreadsheets play in the digital age? Are they a help or a hinderance? Do they impede end-user adoption, or can they strategically facilitate user buy-in?
Posted in: Commentary
Don’t Blame the Messenger (or The Category Manager!)
January 12, 2023
The process part of the "people, process, technology" equation is the missing bridge between people and technology.
Posted in: Commentary, data modernization
Procurement Insights 
Midnight in the ChatGPT Garden of Good and Evil: A New Level of Critical Thinking?
March 6, 2023
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When you hear about ChatGPT what do you think - why is it good or bad?