Spend Management Blogs by SAP

Supplier Collaboration: Organizational Persona Perspectives Differ but All Roads Lead to Automation

By Mickey North Rizza, Group Vice President, Enterprise Software, IDC The digital world has ushered in new opportunities to leverage technology to automate every workflow imaginable, including supplier collaboration. In fact, companies that have di...

Supply Chain in 2024 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong ? Risk Assessment.

Introduction The world of Supply Chain faces a multitude of potential challenges in 2024. From geopolitical tensions to weather-related disruptions, supply chains are at the mercy of various risk events. In this blog post, we will briefly go over the...

4 Years on: How COVID exposed 3 Procurement Orthodoxies

Traditional Procurement strategies fall short and need to be replaced with leaner, more adaptive and intelligent approaches. Heresy or Orthodoxy? New Years Eve 2023 marks four years from the first news reports of COVID-19. (If it had been published ...

Procurement Definition, A Historical and Future Perspective

As I step into this pivotal time of year, ideal for reflection and looking at the future, it's fitting to reassess the definition of Procurement. I'll delve into its evolution - exploring what has shaped it in the past, what influences it presently, ...

Harnessing the Power of External Workforce: Two Decades of Change and Growth

Trace the development of external workforce management for customer buyers and partners over the past two decades, and the extraordinary journey becomes apparent. In the early-mid 2000s, companies were beginning to grasp the importance of effectivel...

The Procurement Monthly - December 2023

Each month i review all the procurement research reports and articles and summarise the best of them, drawing out the key points. World Commerce & Contracting – CCM Benchmarking In this report, (756 responses) sponsored by Icertis, World CC looks at ...

AI Predictions on the Procurement space for 2024

The new year is fast approaching, and it's time to think about what lies ahead. Every year brings with it a mix of familiar and unfamiliar elements, hopes, questions, and events to look forward to. It's clear that the hype around artificial intellige...

The Procurement Monthly - November 2023

Each month i'll review the procurement research reports, articles, and webinars and summarise here Supply Chains for Mid-Market – IDC In this IDC brief (sponsored by open text) the paper uses data from its supply chain survey earlier in the year and ...

Your Ledger is about to go Green

The Tax Collectors, Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1542 - Via WikiArt Double Entry Bookkeeping was introduced by Florence in the 14th century, and arguably was one of the triggers for the subsequent mercantile economy which enabled the Renaissance. Green...

Fieldglass MSP Partners are Game Changers for Businesses

Dear MSP Partners and Customers, Over the last year, we have evolved our business in an ever-changing environment - TOGETHER! With this change comes differences in how to best approach the market as we look to the year ahead. What will we change to...

Moving to the Networked ERP system

The next big innovation for SAP will be #NetworkedERP: taking down the silos not within a company but between companies. This is Jan Gilg and Muhammad Alam at #SAPSpendConnectLive, both Presidents and Chief Product Officers of Cloud ERP and Busines...

Taking procurement to the next level with AI and analytics innovation

SAP Ariba solutions have long been at the vanguard of procurement technology, providing a direct path for companies to replace cumbersome manual tools like paper POs and invoices with streamlined digital processes. Our customers have benefited throug...

The Procurement Monthly - October 2023

Each month ill be taking a look through the published reports, articles and whitepapers written about procurement and external workforce and drawing out the key parts and general themes. Proxima Supply Chain Barometer This is a 2000-person survey of ...

The External Wokforce Dilema

As competition becomes fiercer and tighter, companies are constantly looking for strategies to maintain or grow their market position. C-level execs are constantly looking for new ways to innovate, create new business models and maintain customers sa...

Why Business Networks Are a Key Ingredient for Consumer Products

E.J. Kenney, Senior Vice President of Consumer Products, Life Sciences, and Healthcare, SAP The consumer products landscape is increasingly complex. Demand for products tailored to consumers’ specific wants and needs has led to an explosion in th...