The digital transformation of business is already underway. Digitalization is no longer viewed as the aspiration of a select few, but as an inevitability for businesses in nearly every sector. Over the past several years, the hype surrounding digitalization has also extended to procurement. These days, digital transformation is a top priority for most CPOs, […]

If you’re like many Americans, you’re scrambling with last-minute preparations for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Perhaps you’re just now thinking about the menu items, decorations and supplies you’ll need, the guest list and what side dishes everyone is bringing. To pull off Thanksgiving successfully, you need to rely on many people, hope the stores have […]

It’s Labor Day here in the US… time to take off your corporate “purchaser” hat and play “consumer”. So let’s have some fun with this quick retail buying guide to the best deals found over the  weekend as we close the book on the summer of 2018. The last hallmark “three-day weekend” of 2018 is […]

Tejari and JAGGAER has re-launched in the Middle East following the recent acquisition of strategic procurement company, BravoSolution. During the highly anticipated re-launch events in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, JAGGAER CEO, Rob Bonavito, and CTO, Zia Zahiri, highlighted JAGGAER and Tejari’s future vision for the region including plans for developing the spend management industry’s first “super suite” that will […]

March is National Procurement Month: a fine time to review procurement’s history and evolution. In the ancient world, supplies, materials, and workers were routinely recorded. One of the earliest known examples of this date back to the construction of the The Great Pyramid of Giza (2325 BCE). Using papyrus scrolls, scribes tracked orders through fulfillment, […]

Some of the world’s largest companies, such as Walmart, Accenture, and Johnson & Johnson, are in on one of procurement’s best kept secrets: supplier diversity.  Supplier diversity is a proactive business program encouraging the process of sourcing supplies from minority-owned, women-owned, veteran-owned, LGBT-owned, service disabled veteran-owned, historically underutilized businesses, and SBA-defined small business vendors. Supplier […]

Being a leader encompasses much more than delegating projects to other employees. Peter Drucker, hailed by Businessweek as “the man who invented spend management,” once stated “management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Although we can agree that Drucker’s statement is accurate, being a truly successful procurement leader is much more. […]