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Why Procuring Insurance Is Different

Are You Making the Big Mistakes Without Knowing It? Procuring insurance is different from procurement in any other industry due to the unique relationship between client, insurance broker and insurer.  Industry practices such as “reserving” can block you from getting the best price for your insurance, and if you’re a…
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4 Ways to Mobilise Your Team to Reduce Costs

We could blame the pandemic, or high inflation, or world events wreaking havoc on global supply chains. But the simple fact is, reducing costs will always be a high priority for every organisation, no matter what’s happening externally. And one of the best ways to achieve this is by mobilising…
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Maximise Your Precious Resources with Opportunity Analysis: The Data Suite Series – #5

All organisations have one particular concern in common: proper allocation of finite resources. The difference between doing this right and doing it wrong is boom and bust. This concern touches all aspects of business, but none more so than procurement. With the rise of globalisation, supply chains have swelled into…
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Get to Know Your Business with a Commercial Business Review

External spend can typically run from 30 to 70 percent of a company’s total expenditure, depending on the industry. It’s a staggering amount – but it’s also an opportunity. This level of expenditure can be used to transform a business by not only reducing costs, but by achieving competitive advantage…
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Data Categorisation: The Data Suite Series – #2

The second edition of our Data Suite Series takes a look at data categorisation and the benefits of developing a procurement taxonomy. Data categorisation. It’s what every procurement team wants. It’s the next stage after a spend analysis, and it’s where the presentation of data starts yielding really useful and…
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Open vs Closed Tenders: the Benefits & the Downsides

Which tendering process is right for what you’re trying to source? Choose wisely – the wrong path can put you in bed with the wrong supplier, which always leads to unwanted ramifications for the broader business.  There are, obviously, many steps to the procurement process, but none more important than…
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What Is a Procurement Spend Cube?: The Data Suite Series – #1

It’s not about what you have; it’s how you use it. Anyone can collect data, but more and more organisations are struggling to visualise it in a manner which leads to actionable insights. If you want to see your spend data clearly, you have to put it in a spend…
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5 Ways Procurement Can Expand Your Business

Expand or die. It may seem like a brutal ultimatum, but it holds some truth when it comes to the business world. Organisations, like the universe, cannot stay still: they expand or they contract. That’s it. If you want to keep operating, you have to keep growing. But this growth…
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What Goes Into a Value Chain Analysis?

What is your competitive advantage? If you hesitate when asked, then take cold comfort in the fact that you’re not alone. Too many businesses haven’t performed an adequate value chain analysis, which means they can’t know precisely what value they’re generating and which areas to target for gain. If you…
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Negotiation Approaches in Procurement – 5 Key Tips

It’s one of the oldest art forms in the world, but that doesn’t mean negotiation doesn’t need an update every now and again. A pandemic, supply chain issues and high inflation have combined to transform the negotiation landscape in 2022. Tactics we once relied upon may be more damaging than…
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