Procurement

RFI vs. RFQ vs. RFP: Which Does Your Company Need?
Originally Published December 25, 2017 — Updated February 22, 2024. You’d never buy an expensive laptop online without doing some...
Coupa
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  • Through the Coupa cloud platform, we track hundreds of metrics in order to help us continually improve our platform and help...
    Ravi Thakur
    Ravi Thakur
    Senior Vice President, Business Acceleration, Coupa Software

    Ravi Thakur has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise software, holding executive level positions from support, development, professional services, operations, pre-sales, and more.

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    Req-To-Order Cycle Time
  • Working with organizations in various sourcing and procurement roles over the past 17 years, one of the common challenges I see...
    Dipan Karumsi
    Dipan Karumsi
    Managing Director, Procurement Advisory Services, KPMG

    Dipan Karumsi is a Practice Leader with more than 20 years of supply chain and procurement optimization experience. He has served 50+ organizations across multiple industries and helped to develop robust procurement transformation strategies and execute complex operational improvement initiatives.

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    Awkward Moment Sign.
  • A punchout site is a connection from within your own catalog or procurement system to a supplier’s website. The punchout catalog...
    Coupa
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    Punchout Catalogs and Coupa
  • Here is a procurement best practice that sounds counterintuitive at first: giving all your employees access to all the suppliers you’ve...
    Donna Wilczek
    Donna Wilczek
    Senior Vice President, Strategy and Innovation, Coupa Software

    She is an executive sponsor of the Coupa Executive Advisory Board and an inventor with multiple software patents.

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    Rusted Gate
  • In this year’s CPO Rising report, author Andrew Bartolini, Managing Partner and Chief Research Officer at Ardent Partners, and Publisher of...
    Coupa
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    A word map of procurement and management terms.
  • The new CPO Rising report for 2014 is here! If you’re interested in the future of procure-to-pay, you’ll want to get...
    Coupa
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    Image of a Volkswagon Van from the sixties with a flower power paint job.
  • What exactly does it mean for procurement to be strategic? There are a lot of things wrapped around that, but at...
    Jack Miles
    Jack Miles

    Jack is an advisor known for his experience developing and executing business strategies and his ability to deliver operational excellence in functions which typically under perform in most companies. He has lead procurement teams in both the public and private sector and is a member of Coupa's Visionary Council.

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    The best procurement strategy: Outstanding customer service
  • Reading supplychain.com recently, I came across this ten point procurement fraud prevention checklist by Paul Guile, a CIPS global procurement fraud...
    Jack Miles
    Jack Miles

    Jack is an advisor known for his experience developing and executing business strategies and his ability to deliver operational excellence in functions which typically under perform in most companies. He has lead procurement teams in both the public and private sector and is a member of Coupa's Visionary Council.

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    Going beyond the obvious to root out procurement fraud