Author Archives: Sheena Moore

About Sheena Moore

Sheena Moore comes from a heavy writing, editing, and marketing background in the advertising industry. Currently she is the editor of Spend Matters, Spend Matters PRO, and the Spend Matters Network.

The Great Supplier Network Debate – and Some New Music!

Sheena Moore - May 17, 2013 12:31 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

It’s the time of year at Spend Matters where if we’re not furiously writing or attending or speaking at any number of procurement events, we’re putting together free webinars just for you, our readers, to attend. Here are three that will be coming your way in the next few weeks: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 9-10am CDT The Great Debate: Will Supplier Networks Thrive, Implode, or Evolve? This is what AP, treasury, procurement, and supply chain managers need to know about the future of eProcurement, e-invoicing and business connectivity – featuring a live panel discussion that incorporates audience questions and commentary [...]

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Buying a Wedding Dress Spend Matters Style

Sheena Moore - May 10, 2013 12:28 PM | Categories: Procurement Commentary

This post is part of an ongoing series about “procuring” a wedding, Spend Matters-style. See previous posts here: Wedding Planning: Spend Matters Style Procuring the Perfect Chicago Wedding Venue Wedding Planning: Venue, Menu, Hotel Blocks, Stationary, Oh My! …and thank you so much for all of your advice and congratulations so far! Oh, the wedding dress. I didn’t think I’d spend what I spent. But before we get to that, here’s some background: I was going to get some minor alterations (shortening to cocktail length and then cutting the sleeves off) to my grandmother’s gorgeous lace wedding dress from 1955, [...]

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ISM Conference Coverage, Compliance and Supplier Management, English Evolution

Sheena Moore - May 3, 2013 12:21 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Jason Busch, Pierre Mitchell, and Thomas Kase spent the first part of the week at ISM’s annual conference in Dallas. Pierre describes the buzz/general feel as encompassing “Leadership” and Jason lays out some future scenarios on Spend Matters PRO. Jason talks compliance and supplier management: Compliance Approaches: Our Survey Results and Analysis Compliance Elements and Supplier Management Do you find yourself wanting to get more from P2P through the use of better analytics and KPIs? We can help. And for a bit more on analytics, Pierre talks BorgWerner. We take a quick diversion from hard-hitting procurement content with a guest [...]

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Rethinking Procurement Data, ISM Conference, P&G’s Supplier Finance Strategy

Sheena Moore - April 26, 2013 12:29 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

It was an exciting week for the Spend Matters US headquarters in Chicago. We have given up our ramshackle IKEA chairs for streamlined, ergonomic Herman Miller Aeron swivel chairs – does this mean we’re a real office now?? (Check back later today for the whole story) Aligned spines aside, there’s a lot of other stuff going on too: Pierre Mitchell wrote an open letter to the WSJ about their article on how “big companies pinch suppliers on payments.” He says: “It is my view that P&G is trying to create value here thoughtfully.  I don’t come to praise P&G like [...]

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H7N9 and Supply Chains, Coupa Inspire Quick-Poll, CPO vs. CRO, Panjiva Upgrades

Sheena Moore - April 19, 2013 12:27 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Greetings from an absolutely sopping wet, stormy, flooded Chicago… H7N9 – are you asking the right questions about how your supply chain will be affected by bird flu? Pierre Mitchell tackles them in a Spend Matters PRO piece. Global supplier information database Panjiva has added Chinese data to the mix – and they even vouch for its quality! At Coupa Inspire, Patrice Maheo (Managing Director, KPMG Sourcing & Procurement Advisory) and Dr. Rob Handfield, (Professor of Supply Chain Management, North Carolina State University), shared their thoughts on what procurement managers of the future might look like. Then they asked the audience their thoughts – here are some thoughts on the live results. Pierre Mitchell had some [...]

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Coupa Inspire, GPOs, and Pirates of the Supply Chain

Sheena Moore - April 12, 2013 12:32 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Jason Busch spent the first half of the week at Coupa’s Inspire event in San Francisco, where he was also a presenter. He live-blogged the rest: Day One: Kicking Things Off (Plus an Acquisition Announcement!) Coupa by the Numbers Transforming Indirect Procurement at Coke Coke’s Four eProcurement Truths (Part 1) Coke’s Four eProcurement Truths (Part 2) Day Two: Release Updates and Product Goodies (Part 1) Release Updates and Product Goodies – Procurement Release Updates and Product Goodies – Invoicing Release Updates and Product Goodies – Sourcing Coupa Acquires Xpenser, Gains Expanded Mobile/Capture T&E Capabilities We finished up a series on [...]

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Spend Matters in Africa, IBM Emptoris’ New Release, Crowdsourcing vs. Crowdselling

Sheena Moore - April 5, 2013 1:19 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Thomas Kase spent last week in Nairobi, Kenya – and learned some interesting stuff about pirates! More coverage of his African journey: The African Procurement Journey – European Leg Spend Matters Chairs Procurement Conference in Africa (Part 2) Spend Matters Chairs Procurement Conference in Africa (Part 3)   Jason Busch spends some time with IBM Emptoris’ new Strategic Supply Management Version 10 tool. On Spend Matters PRO, Pierre Mitchell evaluates the procurement services market and the spectrum of service types/sectors within it. What is “crowdsourcing” vs. “crowdselling”? Is it possible to quantify the cost of supply chain disruptions to shareholder [...]

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Industry Social Media, Hubwoo and Microsoft, Conflict Minerals EDGE, The Boat Race

Sheena Moore - March 22, 2013 1:13 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

The implications of social media. Using Social Media to Put SAP/Ariba Down: Shameless, Smart or Both? – I recently had the chance to catch up with Pete Loughlin, P2P expert, e-invoicing geek and no lover of value-based network fees, at Tradeshift’s analyst day in New York. We even did a video together, and I’m looking forward to getting the footage from him soon (and sharing it here). What does it all mean? Microsoft and Hubwoo Partner: Dynamics, Business Networks and P2P – Earlier this week, Hubwoo and Microsoft announced a partnership designed to add additional procurement and e-invoicing / AP capability on [...]

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Upcoming Events, How to Buy Procurement Research, Intuit and Quickbooks

Sheena Moore - March 15, 2013 1:03 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Upcoming Spend Matters US Events If you happen to be in the Chicago area next week, Pierre Mitchell will be speaking at Procurement Leaders (and I imagine Jason will show his face as well). Then, in early April, Jason will be headed to California to speak at the Coupa INSPIRE event. He’ll be presenting a ton of new ideas: (click here to read about them!) Intuit and Tradeshift Connecting SMBs: Intuit’s Procurement, E-Invoicing and Network Opportunity – Last week, two members of the Spend Matters team spent the day at Tradeshift’s analyst day in NYC (links to our coverage are [...]

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Tradeshift’s Analyst Day, Webinar Replay, Social Media and the Supply Chain

Sheena Moore - March 8, 2013 1:17 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Jason attended Tradeshift’s analyst day in NYC earlier this week Here’s all the coverage: Tradeshift’s Analyst Day: Platform and Competitive Context Tradeshift’s Analyst Day: Framing the Opportunity Tradeshift’s Analyst Day: Supplier Network Metrics and Growth Tradeshift’s Analyst Day: Intuit and QuickBooks (Part 1) Tradeshift’s Analyst Day: Intuit and QuickBooks (Part 2) Tradeshift’s Analyst Day: Summary and Key Takeaways   Did you catch our webinar yesterday? When Procurement Met Finance: How to Achieve the Hollywood Ending was a smashing success (down to audience corrections about our When Harry Met Sally references!). Click the above link to watch the recording. A bit [...]

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New P2P Research, Marketing Analytics, Procurement Architecture…and German Beer

Sheena Moore - March 1, 2013 10:32 AM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

If you haven’t downloaded our new research paper yet, now’s the time. Avoiding “Dumb Ways to Die”: eProcurement and P2P Style Adoption Scenarios to Breathe Life into Implementations – When it comes to optimizing the P2P experience, investing time up-front to find out what users are looking for in the first place is of the utmost importance. If items or suppliers can’t be found with keyword or attribute searching, then a good place to start is with spend categories to find preferred—or simply approved!—vendors by category. In one example, we have observed some companies that are explicitly mapping spend categories [...]

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Procurement and Finance Week on Spend Matters US

Sheena Moore - February 22, 2013 1:04 PM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

In looking back at what we’ve written in the past week, I realized that at least 80% of it had something to do with finance, AP, or P2P. So here you go: An upcoming webinar. Forget Harry and Sally – we’re interested in helping procurement and finance find their Hollywood ending at last. Join us on March 7 from 10-11am Central for: When Procurement Met Finance – How to Achieve the Hollywood Ending. Can’t make the event? Register anyway to receive access to the recording and a copy of the slides. Some new free research to download: A P2P Implementation Guide: Avoid [...]

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SciQuest’s Next Level, ADP, Procurement Wars, PRO Previews

Sheena Moore - February 15, 2013 8:32 AM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Jason spent the first part of the week at SciQuest’s Next Level conference. SciQuest’s Next Level Customer Conference: Expectations, Coverage and Questions – I’m down at SciQuest’s Next Level customer conference this week in San Antonio, Texas. If you’re at the event, you can catch me on stage for ten minutes this morning for a quick talk on the current state of procurement and how priorities are evolving at all levels of organizations. But my talk promises to be among the least interesting aspects of the event (even if I manage to succeed in spicing up the universally attention grabbing [...]

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Amazon vs. Ariba, Oracle’s Value Chain Summit, ADP, and CatMan

Sheena Moore - February 8, 2013 10:29 AM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Amazon goes B2B. Amazon vs. Ariba: The Coming Battleground? — Over the past year, we’ve begun to take a closer look at Amazon’s strategy in a B2B environment, including targeting the SMB industrial and MRO market with Amazon Supply (see coverage here and here). But the big question on our minds is not whether Amazon will become a thorn in the side of Grainger, MSC, Wesco, or even metal distributors like O’Neal or Reliance with its warehousing and fulfillment network combined with a storefront. Rather it’s a question of whether we’ll see Amazon on the corporate purchasing desktop competing against the likes of [...]

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The New Spend Matters Network, Walmart Reshoring, Coupa’s Suite, US Public Sector Procurement, Toro y Moi

Sheena Moore - February 1, 2013 8:49 AM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

As you’ve undoubtedly noticed, Spend Matters has had quite a week. All of our sites got a bit of a facelift (with the US site moving to a completely new platform), and we launched the Spend Matters Network, which pulls all global Spend Matters content into once place (as if you didn’t have enough to keep you busy on the internet already)! Yes, we’re still working out some bugs, and will be for some time, but the launch was a massive undertaking for the entire Spend Matters team and I’d like to recognize and thank everybody for their hard work. [...]

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Coupa Webinar, SAP’s Business Suite, Coupa and Accounts Payable, Walmart’s Publicity Nightmare

Sheena Moore - January 28, 2013 8:47 AM | Categories: Current affairs and general interest

Join us on Wednesday for a webinar. 3 Ways to Earn Loyalty and Profit from Your Suppliers: Lessons from Dell — Squeezing great deals out of your suppliers saves money. But having great supplier relationships can save money, time, stress, and maybe even your job. Join Kevin Turner of Dell, Jason Busch of Spend Matters, and Ravi Thakur of Coupa for a revealing look at the sell-side of the procurement equation. Welcome, Pierre Mitchell! As Peter mentioned earlier this week, we’re thrilled that renowned analyst Pierre Mitchell has joined our team. Here’s a bit about what we’ll be doing for [...]

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