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ProcureVue: Industry Leading Procurement Analytics Insights

In today’s data-driven business landscape, harnessing the power of data analytics tools has become essential for companies seeking to gain a...

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How to Make Annual Procurement Budget Planning Effective and Easy

Effective procurement budget planning is crucial for the success of any organization. It ensures the necessary resources are available to meet the...

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Reining in Your Procurement Budget: A Comprehensive Guide

Effective procurement management is vital for achieving financial stability and success. Controlling procurement costs is a top priority in today's...

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Streamlining Procurement Budgets: The Power of Finance Automation

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, finance teams face an ever-increasing demand to do more with less (i.e., inflation, etc.). This...

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Planning Tips for Procurement Officers at the End of the Fiscal Year

As the fiscal year comes to a close, procurement professionals find themselves facing a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Year-end...

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The Analytics of Black Friday

Black Friday is one of the most significant shopping events of the year, with retailers offering enticing deals to attract hordes of eager customers....

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How to Avoid Busting End-of-Year Procurement Budgets

As the end of the fiscal year approaches, procurement professionals face a common challenge – staying within their budget while ensuring that...

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4 Proactive Ways to Use Your End-of-Year Budget (Before You Lose It)

As the end of the year approaches, many businesses and organizations find themselves in a familiar position: they have a budget surplus that needs to...

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Demystifying Data Labeling: A Primer for Procurement Leaders

In the realm of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), one of the key ingredients for success is labeled data. It is the foundation...

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Data Analytics in Rugby

If you missed it, the Rugby World Cup has just taken place in France. The tournament was a huge success, with more nations competing than ever and...

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Baseball, Business, and Analytics

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Leveraging Procurement Data Analytics in Annual Budgeting

In today's data-focused era, organizations must utilize analytics to improve processes and increase efficiency. In procurement, data analytics can be...

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ProcureCon Recap

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Managing Indirect Spend with ProcureVue™

We are excited to share our new video, an intro to our solution to managing indirect spend in your organization. {% video_player "embed_player"...

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ProcureCon 2023

Just one week before ProcureCon! We are looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones at the event in Barcelona in the last week of...

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Pareto, ProcureVue, and Your “Vital Few”

The Pareto Principle undergirds any chart, table, or graph visually depicting priorities by their potential impact.

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SKU Rationalization

In procurement organizations, SKU (stock-keeping unit) management is crucial to successful product life cycle management. Understanding the impact of...

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Welcoming Our New Data Analyst!

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QuickVue™ into Spend Cubes

What is it?

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Reducing Exposure to China: (Whitepaper Teaser)

Our next topic in the Vue™ Whitepaper Series examines the strategies employed by American companies to mitigate their exposure to Chinese...

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Climbing Kilimanjaro (Part 3)

We made it! After three and a half years of planning, complete with Covid disruptions, it took us eight and a half hours from our final base at the ...

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Data Cleansing - Lessons Learned and Today's Solutions

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Kilimanjaro – Preparations for the Big Climb

When teaching negotiation skills courses, I used to use the comparison with climbing a mountain as an example of an event that you should always...

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Transforming Data into Jet Fuel

If Data is the New Oil, how do we transform spend data into the equivalent of jet fuel to power business growth?

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Climbing Kilimanjaro for the Samson Centre

At the end of June, Andy Symmonds, Managing Partner of our EMEA business unit, plans to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money for charity....

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ProcureCon Connect (Amsterdam)

The ProcureVue™ team enjoyed participating in the recent ProcureCon Connect event at the Novotel Hotel in Amsterdam. Andy Symmonds, Managing Partner...

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Analytics and the NFL Draft

The National Football League (NFL) is one of the most popular sports leagues in the world. Each year, it holds events that help teams find new...

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How can businesses learn from how Formula 1 teams use data analytics to inform strategies?

Formula 1 is one of the most rapidly growing sports in the United States. After decades of being a premier sport in the rest of the world, the US has...

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Certainty in Uncertain Times (Part 4)

Lessons from War and Business In part 1 of this series, we examined how the Ukrainian military has incorporated technologies from satellites to...

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Certainty in Uncertain Times (Part 3)

Who Wins? Imagine a game of Chess, Checkers, or Uno where one player gets to move twice for every move their opponent makes. Who wins? The player who...

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Certainty in Uncertain Times (Part 2)

Who Wins During Chaotic Times? In part 1 of this series, we examined the impacts of the pandemic, climate change, and the war in Europe. We noted...

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Certainty in Uncertain Times (Part 1)

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How to Win as a CPO

As a Chief Procurement Officer, you know the competition for resources is fierce. You must be creative, diplomatic, and persistent. But did you know...

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Indirect Spend: An OverVue™

Indirect spend plays a vital role in an organization's success but is often considered too hard to gather and analyze. Due to how indirect items are...

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The Ultimate Indirect Expenditure- Economics of Super Bowl Advertising

The Super Bowl is one of the most significant events in the United States, with millions of viewers tuning in each year to watch the game and the...

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Data Analytics and Hosting the Super Bowl

Hosting the Super Bowl can have a significant financial impact on the host city. The influx of NFL fans for the event can bring in millions of...

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Can Procurement Technology Save your Job?

Procurement technologies are revolutionizing how businesses operate, and in the current economic climate, they can also play a crucial role in saving...

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Tom Brady Level Health

Why can pro athletes recover from illness and injury quicker than the rest of us? Why do Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise seem to be ageless? How has...

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CASE STUDY: Complex North American Manufacture & Distributor

A North American distributor with a global supply chain built through acquisition over the last 25+ years, combining manufacturing and distribution...

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Preparing for a Recession

According to Harvard Business Review only 9% of businesses come out of a recession ahead.

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Technology and Intelligent Decision Making

Cost optimization remains a tangible goal but with a lesser focus than conventional business operations.

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How COVID Supply Chain Interruptions Affect the Medical & Pharmaceutical Industry in 2022

In 2020 and 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic halted the production and transportation of pharmaceutical raw materials and products. Many medical and...

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People & Technology: A Marriage in Applied Analytics

Introduction In the past two decades, the world has become more digital in ways that once only existed in science fiction. And while the recent...

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The Evolution of Procurement

We are excited to share our new video “The Evolution of Procurement.” A fun short about how we began and how we’ve arrived in the context of...

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ProcureVue™ Sponsors Pinehurst Charity Event

ProcureVue™ is thrilled to support such a great cause with a great group of people. To Cure a Rose Foundation really outdid itself at one of the...

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ProcureVue™ - Business Intelligence Simplified

Sourcing Reimagined ProcureVue™ transforms your spend data into measurable outcomes enabling you to evolve your company's supply chain.

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