Latest posts by Sam Jenks
Finding Your Procurement Team’s North Star Metric
What's your Procurement team's North Star? A "North Star", a metric must do three things: drive revenue, customer value, and measure progress.
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5 Ways Supplier Ratings Can Help Procurement to Buy Smarter
Adopting a framework, process and system for Supplier Rating will help you and your procurement team to buy safer, smarter and more sustainably.
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How To Build a Digital Procurement Ecosystem in 8 Minutes
Instigating the mapping/implementation of a digital procurement ecosystem requires a definition of the elements in the process you’d like to digitalize.
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Procurement & Sustainability: Your Company's Yin & Yang
Procurement and sustainability are your business' Yin and Yang. The question is; are you harnessing the natural power they create together?
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Responsible Sourcing: How To Make Sustainability Happen, For Real
Responsible Sourcing is a business-critical activity, in which participating actors are equally accountable for the impact made during trade.
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The Secret Recipe for Smooth Supplier Management
Kodiak Rating team shares our secret family recipe for smooth supplier management including strategy, process and solutions. Bon Appétit!
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Your Procurement Team's Flywheel: Turning Good To Great.
Take a second to locate success and start to find and refine your procurement team’s flywheel, and make it spin to create momentum!
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Procurement Terminology Is A Mess
Sometimes we, as procurement professionals, don’t even know what we’re about. Procurement terminology is a mess, and it's time to clean it up!
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Supplier Diversity: One Small Step for Procurement, One Giant Leap for the World
Supplier diversity is not just a business decision, it's a human decision, and it's time that procurement challenges the status quo.
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