“Category Management is the top driver of #Procurement Digital Transformation” — Baber Farooq Category Plans used to be written in PPT, presented once then forgotten. If you can digitise, and involve all stakeholders, you can start solving, not futzing around in PPT. #PLWPC

My observations on the recent #PLWPC, and the way better KPIs will lead to better outcomes. Procurement Leaders linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

The new James Webb telescope allows astronomers to see further afield and further back in time. The SAP Business Network allows Supply Chain managers to see suppliers who are further away, and beyond current time horizons. linkedin.com/pulse/see-furt…

Please join me at the SAP Ariba spend management user conference. Register today and take advantage of the significant savings of our Super Early Bird pricing! SAP #SAPSpendConnectLive

Blog about how #CLM from Icertis is like an X-ray for your business: — See problems deep inside to mitigate — Apply AI for faster diagnosis — One source of truth for all. Gretchen Eischen Sanjay Poonen Dan Barnhardt Monish Darda (He/Him/His) InHouse_Bern Samir Bodas linkedin.com/pulse/x-ray-yo…

My blog and sketch on the SAP Discovery Day. linkedin.com/pulse/future-s… @JosephinGalla

Can’t just randomly add a y to a perfectly good noun. What next Supply Chain Excellency? User Experiency. You are trying my patiency.

At #UKISUGConnect, new data released from SAP customers shows they are increasingly reliant on us to meet #ESG goals.

Celebrating 50 years of SAP at #UKISUGConnect with Paul Cooper, Craig Dale, SAP UK & Ireland’s MD Michael V and a surprised Mandy Bentley (this was not on the agenda!)

Great opening panel at SUSTx Sustainability Portfolio where the panellists disagree on whether sustainability needs to be sexy or boring. Boring means Business as Usual, Boring means it just happens, Boring means it is embedded not special.

Brilliant: think about the game theory behind this: revealed unknown data, avoided fraud, zero cost of implementation. TWS Partners SUSTx Sustainability Portfolio

My sketch captures some of the key themes from SUSTx Sustainability Portfolio Sustainable Procurement today.

My new Blog on Storytelling. Why did Explorers go to the Pole knowing no gold, spice or furs would be found? They sought a different resource: stories. link.medium.com/y1yZ5zOQZvb

Just found this date stamp, which expired this week: its year wheel does not go beyond 2022. The makers of this one (The Trodat UK printy-dater 4817) didn’t expect anyone to be stamping documents in 2023. Is that right?

Game Theory is more than just obscure equations, dimly remembered. It can now be used by today's Sourcing Software to allow both buyers and sellers to collaborate on solving the toughest sustainability challenges. linkedin.com/pulse/its-win-… via LinkedIn

At @eWorldForum conference this morning, Jim Townsend (ex BW Boots UK CPO) tells other procurement leaders they need to get better at explaining their business value. “No Procurement Gobbledygook” Or, as I summarise it: “We need to tell better stories”. #storytelling

Business Networks are front and centre in ⁦ Christian Klein key note as he kicks off #SAPSapphire

“Procurement is being asked to future-proof the world” At #PLWPC Nandini Basuthakur starts the conference by focusing the 800 attendees on the impact they can have. Procurement Leaders

Very excited to be working on the SAP #generativeai #Hackathon Our idea is to use AI models and publicly available data to understand the extended supply chains that our customers operate in. timoelliott.bsky.social Val Blatt Oliver Kohl Matthias Steiner Nic Smith Alvaro (Blag) Tejada Galindo 🥑

Jeff Collier, CRO for SAP Ariba , SAP Fieldglass , SAP Concur SAP Supply Chain Management invites you to #SAPSpendConnect this October in Vienna. lnkd.in/eDnnPJsv October 9−11, Early-bird pricing ends today!