Spend Matters Compass Research
Welcome to the Spend Matters Compass Series of Research
Spend Matters Compass, our new research offering, provides deeper research and analysis for free to Spend Matters readers. In each Compass series, we'll provide three to four downloadable PDF briefs on the subject of focus. Collectively, our hope is that each Compass series will serve as a useful and at least partially definitive guide for companies as they wrestle with the right set of technology, content, services, internal talent and process investments to get more from specific procurement and operations initiatives.
Spend Matters Compass, our new research offering, provides deeper research and analysis for free to Spend Matters readers. In each Compass series, we'll provide three to four downloadable PDF briefs on the subject of focus. Collectively, our hope is that each Compass series will serve as a useful and at least partially definitive guide for companies as they wrestle with the right set of technology, content, services, internal talent and process investments to get more from specific procurement and operations initiatives.
NEW! Paper One
Selecting Services Procurement Technology – Options, Approaches, and Philosophy
Selecting the best technology set for any procurement or operations organization is never easy. Vendors bombard companies—and those that influence company buying decisions, such as analysts and consultants—with functional detail after functional detail, often attempting to differentiate at such a level that even the experts who review such products often throw their hands up in despair. In the case of services procurement, this could not be more true, owing to both the diversity of the provider ecosystem and the range of philosophies and approaches brought to the table by different providers.
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NEW! Paper Two
Services Spend — Beyond Contingent Labor: Achieving And Implementing Savings Across Previously Unmanaged Categories
In recent years, many procurement organizations have begun to examine the opportunity to consolidate their contingent—and even statement of work (SOW)—buying activities under a single buying umbrella. But in today’s environment, services procurement in non-contingent categories can have potentially an even greater impact from both cost and non-cost perspectives. Spend Matters research suggests that in categories such as marketing and print it is often possible to achieve 10%-20% total savings without changing vendors.
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