September 29, 2014
It was the late 90’s, and I was heading up a project that would enable the Department of National Defence to acquire Indirect MRO spare parts online from suppliers throughout North America. The challenge went beyond the mere sourcing process, as the DND required that parts be delivered within 24 hours to one of their 40 bases across […]
August 28, 2014
“Prominent business and supply chain analyst Jon Hansen says when buyers try to improve working capital position at the expense of suppliers, bad things happen usually. Supply chain financing is a tool that mutually benefits the positions of both stakeholders, creating win-win buyer-supplier situations”. – ThomasNet News 30
August 19, 2014
Supplier collaboration. Add it to procurement transformation and category management as popular procurement phrases that are successfully implemented less often than they are clearly defined. As procurement professionals, we know we are supposed to collaborate more. We are actively looking for opportunities to collaborate with our suppliers. But having the desire to collaborate is not […]
August 14, 2014
I recently came across a very interesting post in the Nipendo P2P Narrative blog titled “What is supplier collaboration“. What made it interesting – at least from my perspective, is that it zeros in on a simple yet powerful truth. You have to remove the barriers to collaboration before you can actually begin to well […]
June 5, 2014
Just this morning I received an e-mail invite to the June 12th 30 minute Nipendo webinar under the heading “Beyond e-procurement and e-invoicing: what’s next?” Hosted by Purchasing Insight’s Pete Loughlin, attendees will find out how leading enterprises are building intelligent P2P solutions that: Rise above the limitations of document-based buyer-supplier communication Block bad data […]
June 3, 2014
As one of our New Wave companies for 2014, Unimarket is an interesting study in contrasts. On the one hand, the organization has been around for a long time – nearly 2 decades from original conception. On the other hand Unimarket, like the individuals in the old American Express “Do you know me” commercials, has […]
June 2, 2014
Back in my April 23rd post “What IBM was to mainframes and Coupa was to SaaS, Nipendo is to the P2P cloud“, I wrote the following; I believe that Nipendo is a company to watch – and watch closely – in that not only have they seen the future, they also understand it and are […]
April 23, 2014
In talking about the Internet of Things and more specifically the Internet of Things and Humans, Eran Livneh wrote the following in his recent Nipendo blog post What is the Internet of Things and what does it mean to the P2P world; “For Procure-to-Pay applications to keep pace with where “Things” are heading, we need […]
Will SAP Buy Tradeshift? by Jon Hansen
April 17, 2015
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As you know, and much like the coverage of our industry in general, I usually find press releases announcing either a new client win, or a merger and acquisition, as little more than the perfunctory dissemination of information that reveals little if anything meaningful. In fact, the vast majority of announcements would be better placed in either […]