Storm in the tech sector
Paradoxically, software vendors are making hundreds of thousands of layoffs at the same time as digital transformation is taking hold. A review of the context, […]
Category: Digital Transformation
Lemon Learning also takes care of your data quality
While visiting Lemon Learning, one of our French Tech champions, in their offices in the heart of the Silicon Sentier in Paris, I discovered the benefits […]
The Supplier, the forgotten one in Source to Pay Software
Why is it that, while the many crises are highlighting the relationship with the Supplier, the Purchasing IS solutions, designed with and for Purchasing Departments, […]
How do you put meaning back into digitalized business processes?
“[1] When processes kill organizational creativity.” At a time when everyone is questioning the meaning of action at work, too many digitalized processes are oriented towards control, […]
No, don’t call me Purchasing IS anymore…
The Purchasing Function’s contribution to the business opens it up to cross-functional missions supported by a Digital Purchasing offer that has been misnamed by names […]
Additive Manufacturing between decarbonisation and cost reduction and MOQ
Relocation and decarbonisation, rising costs and supply disruption, availability and agility. Spare parts management is a combination of the challenges of the decade. With the […]
Source-to-Pay software vendors lack procurement skills and it shows
Although digital is seen as a necessity by procurement departments, the virtual absence of practitioners within the product teams of source-to-pay software vendors raises questions […]
About processes and growth
“What works is to approach the question of growth not by denying the identity of the company, but on the contrary in function of it.” […]
When Purchasing takes back control of its tools
Although exciting, the landscape of purchasing IS solutions remains complex and fragmented, resulting in calls for tender that are still too high for both publishers […]
e-Sourcing Tools: What Procurement Departments Need for Successful Adoption
Success requires skill acquisition pathways and a support team While sales teams typically have a Sales Operations team that provides support and administration, purchasers usually […]
Patrick Chabannes
"Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do; strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do."