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# p-i.com.au

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## Posts

- [blog](https://www.p-i.com.au/blog/) - Read relevant articles and industry updates on procurement and data analytics in "Our Blogs" section by PI Data Analytics.
- [How to Prioritise Indirect Procurement Categories: A Data-Driven Framework](https://www.p-i.com.au/how-to-prioritise-indirect-procurement-categories-a-data-driven-framework/) - Learn how Purchasing Index helps Melbourne businesses prioritise indirect procurement categories using a data-driven framework beyond spend volume.
- [Procurement Technology Trends and AI Strategy – ProcureTECH 2026](https://www.p-i.com.au/procurement-technology-trends-and-ai-strategy-procuretech-2026/) - ProcureTECH 2026 reveals how AI, orchestration, and cyber risk are reshaping procurement tech—insights from Purchasing Index, crucial part of Comprara Group! Register now.
- [AI Spend Classification: How to Fix Tail Spend Visibility and Unlock Hidden Savings](https://www.p-i.com.au/ai-spend-classification-how-to-fix-tail-spend-visibility-and-unlock-hidden-savings/) - Purchasing Index shows how AI spend classification fixes tail spend visibility and uncovers hidden savings. See how to unlock decision-ready data.
- [Design to Decision: Turning Procurement Dashboards into Executive Storytellers](https://www.p-i.com.au/design-to-decision-turning-procurement-dashboards-into-executive-storytellers/) - Watch your procurement dashboards transform into executive storytellers that drive decisions, reveal risk, and connect data to strategic business impact.
- [Seeing Procurement Differently – Data Lenses That Unlock Insight](https://www.p-i.com.au/seeing-procurement-differently-data-lenses-that-unlock-insight/) - Procurement dashboards often look sleek, colorful charts, up-to-date metrics, and trend lines that look impressive in meetings. But the real power of a dashboard isn’t in the data it shows, it's in how the data is sliced and framed. A well-designed dashboard answers more than “how much” or “how many”, it gets to “where,” “why,”
- [Which Metrics Actually Move the Needle on Procurement Performance?](https://www.p-i.com.au/which-metrics-actually-move-the-needle-on-procurement-performance/) - If dashboards are the eyes of procurement, then KPIs are the lenses that bring everything into focus. Without the right performance indicators, even the most beautifully designed dashboard becomes misleading, or worse, completely useless. You've defined your strategic questions. You understand what decisions your dashboard needs to support. Now comes the hard part: choosing which
- [9 Things Procurement Data Analysts Are Too Polite to Tell You](https://www.p-i.com.au/9-things-procurement-data-analysts-are-too-polite-to-tell-you/) - 9 polite truths revealed about messy data, Excel woes, and late requests! Get cleaner insights & strategic value from our procurement data analysts at PI Data Analytics
- [11 Brutal Ways You’re Misusing Your Procurement Spend Data](https://www.p-i.com.au/11-brutal-ways-youre-misusing-your-procurement-spend-data/) - Know these 11 brutal mistakes and stop misusing your procurement data. Want to transform your spend analysis? Book a demo for actionable insights that drive strategic decisions.
- [7 Best Practices for Indirect Procurement Strategies Using Spend Data Analytics](https://www.p-i.com.au/7-best-practices-for-indirect-procurement-strategies-using-spend-data-analytics/) - With inflation, supply chain disruption, and ESG scrutiny putting the squeeze on businesses, you need to optimise every dollar spent. Trust me, spend analysis is one of your most powerful, yet often overlooked, tools to do just that. Spend analysis transforms your scattered purchasing data into actionable insights. It's about collecting, cleansing, and making sense
- [8 Procurement Risks to Watch Out For in Big Projects (and Their Solutions)](https://www.p-i.com.au/8-procurement-risks-to-watch-out-for-in-big-projects-and-their-solutions/) - Identify 8 key procurement risks in large projects and their solutions, as discussed by PI Data Analytics for better risk management.
- [The Purpose Behind the Strategic Procurement Dashboard – Strategic Clarity First](https://www.p-i.com.au/the-purpose-behind-the-strategic-procurement-dashboard-strategic-clarity-first/) - Enough of useless procurement dashboards - Time to transform your procurement data into a competitive advantage! Call PI Data Analytics for a consultation.
- [Spend Classification Series: Implementation & Governance (Part 5)](https://www.p-i.com.au/spend-classification-series-implementation-governance-part-5/) - Keep your spend classification engine accurate post-go-live with a 9-step rollout! Smart governance, KPIs that catch drift, and more. Read on to learn more!
- [Spend Classification Series: Human + Machine for Scale & Accuracy (Part 4)](https://www.p-i.com.au/spend-classification-series-human-machine-for-scale-accuracy-part-4/) - Know how PI Analytics combines rules, ML & human review to achieve 95%+ spend classification accuracy at scale. Part 4 of our series is here. Stay tuned.
- [Spend Classification Series: Why Does it Really Matter? (Part 1)](https://www.p-i.com.au/spend-classification-series-why-does-it-really-matter-part-1/) - Part 1 of Comprara’s Spend Classification Series explores why clean, classified spend data is the key to procurement savings, compliance, and ROI. Call now to know more.
- [Data Analytics: Develop Core Skills, Outsource the Rest](https://www.p-i.com.au/data-analytics-develop-core-skills-outsource-the-rest/) - PI Data Analytics helps businesses develop core data analytics skills and outsource tasks, optimising procurement decisions and efficiency.
- [5 Ways Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Benefits Procurement](https://www.p-i.com.au/5-ways-robotic-process-automation-rpa-benefits-procurement/) - Learn 5 ways Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enhances procurement efficiency and accuracy with insights from PI Data Analytics.
- [3 Green Supply Chain Management Challenges & Their Solutions](https://www.p-i.com.au/3-green-supply-chain-management-challenges-their-solutions/) - Explore 3 key green supply chain challenges and effective solutions with PI Data Analytics, helping businesses achieve sustainable procurement goals.
- [5 Reasons to Use Reverse Auctions in 2022](https://www.p-i.com.au/5-reasons-to-use-reverse-auctions-in-2022/) - Discover 5 reasons to use reverse auctions in 2022 to boost procurement efficiency and cost savings with insights from PI Data Analytics.
- [5 Ways Procurement Can Expand Your Business](https://www.p-i.com.au/5-ways-procurement-can-expand-your-business/) - Learn 5 ways procurement strategies can help expand your business, driving growth and efficiency with insights from PI Data Analytics.
- [What Is a Procurement Spend Cube?: The Data Suite Series - #1](https://www.p-i.com.au/what-is-a-procurement-spend-cube/) - Discover what a procurement spend cube is in this first installment of the Data Suite Series by PI Data Analytics, simplifying procurement insights.
- [Data Categorisation: The Data Suite Series - #2](https://www.p-i.com.au/the-data-suite-series-2-data-categorisation/) - Learn about data categorisation in the second installment of the Data Suite Series by PI Data Analytics, enhancing your procurement strategies.
- [Compliance Reporting: The Data Suite Series - #3](https://www.p-i.com.au/compliance-reporting-the-data-suite-series-3/) - Discover the importance of compliance reporting in the third installment of the Data Suite Series by PI Data Analytics for better decision-making.
- [The Key to Forging Long-term, Successful Relationships with SMEs](https://www.p-i.com.au/the-key-to-forging-long-term-successful-relationships-with-smes/) - Learn how to build lasting, successful relationships with SMEs. Discover strategies and insights from PI Data Analytics for effective collaboration.
- [Maximise Your Precious Resources with Opportunity Analysis: The Data Suite Series - #5](https://www.p-i.com.au/maximise-your-precious-resources-with-opportunity-analysis-the-data-suite-series-5/) - Optimise your resources with Opportunity Analysis from PI Data Analytics. Make informed decisions to drive efficiency and growth.
- [Spend Classification Series: Our Data is Really Messy! (Part 2)](https://www.p-i.com.au/spend-classification-series-our-data-is-really-messy-part-2/) - Spend Classification Series – 5-part guidePrevious: Part 1 – Why Does it Really Matter? Next: Part 3 – Building a Taxonomy People Actually Use Spend Classification Series – 5-part guideThis Post: Part 1 – Why Care?Next Up: Part 2 – Our Data Is Too Messy! You’ve confirmed that spend classification is super important, but there’s
- [Spend Classification Series: Building a Procurement Taxonomy People Actually Use (Part 3)](https://www.p-i.com.au/spend-classification-series-building-a-procurement-taxonomy-people-actually-use-part-3/) - Build a smart spend taxonomy with PI Analytics to cut “Other,” enhance visibility, and align classification with real workflows using MECE and 3-level structure. Contact to learn more.
- [Project Charters – The Ultimate Category Transformation: The Data Suite Series #6](https://www.p-i.com.au/project-charters-the-ultimate-category-transformation-the-data-suite-series-6/) - Transform your categories with Project Charters in The Data Suite Series #6 from PI Data Analytics. Drive effective change and growth.
- [How to Pitch to C-Suite](https://www.p-i.com.au/how-to-pitch-to-c-suite/) - Learn effective strategies for pitching to the C-Suite with insights from PI Data Analytics. Drive impactful conversations and decisions.
- [Labour Hire: Keep the Advantages, Leave the Risks with ProcureTRAK](https://www.p-i.com.au/labour-hire-keep-the-advantages-leave-the-risks-with-procuretrak/) - Keep the advantages of labour hire and mitigate risks with ProcureTRAK, as outlined by PI Data Analytics for effective management.
- [Spend Analytics Can Drive ESG Initiatives](https://www.p-i.com.au/spend-analytics-can-drive-esg-initiatives/) - Learn how spend analytics can drive ESG initiatives and promote sustainable practices, featuring insights from PI Data Analytics.
- [How Modern AI Can Help CPOs Embrace Their New Role](https://www.p-i.com.au/how-modern-ai-can-help-cpos-embrace-their-new-role/) - Modern AI can assist CPOs in adapting to their evolving roles; PI Data Analytics shares strategies for effective implementation.
- [Procurement Spend Analytics: A Powerful Tool in the Fight Against Modern Slavery](https://www.p-i.com.au/procurement-spend-analytics-a-powerful-tool-in-the-fight-against-modern-slavery/) - Procurement spend analytics serves as a powerful tool in the fight against modern slavery, as explained by PI Data Analytics.
- [The Revolutionary Potential of Spend Analytics in Healthcare](https://www.p-i.com.au/the-revolutionary-potential-of-spend-analytics-in-healthcare/) - The revolutionary potential of spend analytics in healthcare is detailed by PI Data Analytics, highlighting transformative benefits.
- [How a Mastery of Procurement Data Analytics Can Make You a C-Suite Leader.](https://www.p-i.com.au/how-a-mastery-of-procurement-data-analytics-can-make-you-a-c-suite-leader/) - Mastering procurement data analytics is key to becoming a C-Suite leader, according to PI Data Analytics’ insights and strategies.
- [Procurement Teams Without Spend Visibility Will Be D.O.A.](https://www.p-i.com.au/procurement-teams-without-spend-visibility-will-be-d-o-a/) - Procurement teams lacking spend visibility will struggle to survive; PI Data Analytics stresses the need for clear data access.
- [Why, and How, to Pursue ESG Procurement Initiatives in Earnest](https://www.p-i.com.au/why-and-how-to-pursue-esg-procurement-initiatives-in-earnest/) - PI Data Analytics explains the importance of pursuing ESG procurement initiatives earnestly and offers practical strategies for success.
- [8 Ways Data Analytics Helps Procurement Navigate Conflict & Weather Events](https://www.p-i.com.au/8-ways-data-analytics-helps-procurement-navigate-conflict-weather-events/) - Since the GFC of ’08, procurement has endured a 15-year stress test. Power plant meltdowns, more powerful weather events than ever before, a pandemic and the continuing Russia/Ukraine conflict. How have we, as a function, learned to deal with events outside our control impacting on our supply chains? McKinsey put this question out there and
- [Procurement Needs to Start Prioritising Cybersecurity. Here’s Why & How](https://www.p-i.com.au/procurement-needs-to-start-prioritising-cybersecurity-heres-why-how/) - With cybersecurity becoming vital, PI Data Analytics outlines why and how procurement should prioritise cybersecurity measures now.
- [Can Sustainable Procurement Save Our Planet? 6 Ways towards Sustainable Procurement](https://www.p-i.com.au/can-sustainable-procurement-save-our-planet-6-ways-towards-sustainable-procurement/) - Can sustainable procurement truly save our planet? PI Data Analytics presents 6 ways to implement effective sustainable practices.
- [13 Signs Your Spend Analysis is Just Expensive Admin](https://www.p-i.com.au/13-signs-your-spend-analysis-is-just-expensive-admin/) - Realised that your spend analysis is just costly admin? Here're 13 signs you're missing the impact! Learn how to fix it and turn data into action with PI Data Analytics.
- [You’re Probably a Victim of Procurement Fraud. Here’s How to Spot It and Stop It.](https://www.p-i.com.au/youre-probably-a-victim-of-procurement-fraud-heres-how-to-spot-it-and-stop-it/) - You may be a victim of procurement fraud; PI Data Analytics offers tips on spotting and stopping it to protect your organisation.
- [Opportunity Missed: Government's 'AusTinder' Approach to Procurement Overlooks Value in SMEs](https://www.p-i.com.au/opportunity-missed-governments-austinder-approach-to-procurement-overlooks-value-in-smes/) - The government’s ‘AusTinder’ approach to procurement may overlook valuable SMEs; PI Data Analytics provides insights on this issue.
- [2023: The Year of Procurement Hygiene](https://www.p-i.com.au/2023-the-year-of-procurement-hygiene/) - Understand why 2023 is pivotal for procurement hygiene, with guidance from PI Data Analytics on improving compliance and efficiency.
- [Clean Up Your Contract Management with the Contract Tracker: The Data Suite Series – #4](https://www.p-i.com.au/clean-up-your-contract-management-with-the-contract-tracker-the-data-suite-series-4/) - Improve your contract management with the Contract Tracker from PI Data Analytics. Simplify tracking and ensure compliance effectively.
- [Spend Analysis for Data-Driven Decisions](https://www.p-i.com.au/spend-analysis-for-data-driven-decisions/) - PI Data Analytics provides spend analysis insights, enabling data-driven decisions that optimize procurement efficiency and cost management.
- [Stay on Top of Probity with Cutting Edge AI](https://www.p-i.com.au/stay-on-top-of-probity-with-cutting-edge-ai/) - PI Data Analytics uses cutting-edge AI to help businesses maintain probity in procurement, ensuring ethical and transparent operations.
- [Successfully Navigate Digitising The Procurement Process](https://www.p-i.com.au/successfully-navigate-digitising-the-procurement-process/) - PI Data Analytics provides insights to help businesses digitise procurement processes, improving efficiency, transparency, and decision-making.
- [3 Ways the New VGPB Policy Can Reduce Your Risk Profile](https://www.p-i.com.au/3-ways-the-new-vgpb-policy-can-reduce-your-risk-profile/) - Learn 3 ways the new VGPB policy can lower your risk profile and improve procurement practices with insights from PI Data Analytics.
- [Price Benchmarking: The most important element of strategic sourcing](https://www.p-i.com.au/price-benchmarking-the-most-important-element-of-strategic-sourcing/) - PI Data Analytics offers price benchmarking insights, a key element in strategic sourcing, helping businesses make informed procurement decisions.
- [Procurement Fraud: It’s time to say ‘no’ to the quid pro quo](https://www.p-i.com.au/procurement-fraud-its-time-to-say-no-to-the-quid-pro-quo/) - PI Data Analytics helps detect and prevent procurement fraud with data-driven insights, ensuring transparent and secure business operations.
- [6 Tips for Supplier Risk and Performance Management](https://www.p-i.com.au/6-tips-for-supplier-risk-and-performance-management/) - PI Data Analytics offers data-driven insights for supplier risk and performance management, helping businesses optimise procurement strategies.
- [Machine Learning and the Frontier of Spend Analysis](https://www.p-i.com.au/machine-learning-and-the-frontier-of-spend-analysis/) - This is the procurement dream: maintaining the quality of goods and services while reducing costs. It’s our primary continuous goal, and spend analysis is the vehicle to drive us there. Spend analysis is the foundation of procurement performance. Improve efficiency, reduce maverick spending, increase cost-savings; this is what well-executed spend analysis does. Unfortunately, for a
- [The Spend Profile: It’s Time You Got to Know Your Own Company](https://www.p-i.com.au/the-spend-profile-its-time-you-got-to-know-your-own-company/) - No, procurement officers, it’s not your imagination. People are staring. All eyes are on you. Hellish 2020 may be over, but now it’s 2021 and companies are desperately trying to identify areas of cost-saving opportunity while shoring up a teetering supply chain. It’s time to step into the breach. Currently, most businesses are stuck in
- [Are you ready for Big Data in Procurement?](https://www.p-i.com.au/big-data-procurement/) - Big Data is “in”, it is the buzzword of the decade as businesses and organisations in-general become more and more data driven. Yet, what is big data? How does it differ from traditional data and data analysis? Most importantly, are you ready for big data’s encroachment into procurement?
- [Procurement Skills for the Future: Predict the Future with Predictive Analysis](https://www.p-i.com.au/predictive-analysis/) - Data is the new oil, but how will it fuel procurement in the future? One way is for data to predict the future. Currently, the focus of data analysis is to examine the past. Spend analysis and management involve processing and analysing data to decrease procurement costs, improve efficiency and monitor compliance.
- [Does data give your day a va-va-va voom?](https://www.p-i.com.au/procurement-data-analytics/) - Data will enable suppliers to manage their customers better; and, data will enable procurement to manage suppliers better. Detailed analytics will allow teams to track best and worst performers and adjust the supply chain accordingly quickly.
- [Can someone PLEASE stop the mavericks?!](https://www.p-i.com.au/maverick-buying/) - All of us in procurement know that procurement non-compliance happens. The bigger the organisation, the more likely the chance that someone, somewhere is making purchasing decisions without consulting procurement or going through the defined process.
- [“Let us welcome our newest chatbot to the team!”](https://www.p-i.com.au/welcome-chatbot-team/) - See how chatbots improve procurement capabilities by utilising existing data and channel them through Artificial Intelligence algorithms to give accurate insights in a more personalised form.
- [Trust me I am in procurement](https://www.p-i.com.au/trust-procurement/) - What role does trust play in Procurement? See how Procurement teams manage trust using Smart Contracts and Blockchain Technology
- [5 reasons to use reverse auctions in 2019](https://www.p-i.com.au/5-reasons-to-use-reverse-auctions-in-2019/) - "What is the best deal you can offer me?” that is the heart of negotiations. Reverse auctions are a tried and tested tool to get to the “best deal”. A brief intro on “what is a reverse auction”: In the case of normal auctions, the vendor puts up a good, and potentials buyers offer up
- [It is dirty work, this data business.](https://www.p-i.com.au/it-is-dirty-work-this-data-business/) - “I'm an oil man, ladies and gentlemen. I have numerous concerns spread across this state. I have many wells flowing at many thousand barrels per days. I like to think of myself as an oil man”. – Daniel Plainview, There Will Be Blood Data is the new oil; many people acknowledge that. However, while no
- [Let’s Celebrate: We’re taking over PI Day](https://www.p-i.com.au/lets-celebrate-were-taking-over-pi-day/) - Join the Comprara and PI Data Analytics Team to take over Pi Day #PIDayTakeover #PIDay Pi Day on March 14th is an annual opportunity for maths enthusiasts around the world to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about maths, and to eat Pie. But this year we’re taking over and redefining
- [Negotiation using Hagglebots](https://www.p-i.com.au/negotiation-using-hagglebots/) - Procurement is about making deals. What does it mean to make deals in 2019? For too long, savings has dominated the procurement agenda. A success of a procurement department is measured by how much value they derive for the organisation and yes, of course this comes down to savings on a contract. But this focus
- [Skill gaps – who cares?](https://www.p-i.com.au/skill-gaps-who-cares/) - Did you hear about the Japanese Minister of Cyber Security who doesn’t know how to use a computer or anything about Cyber Security? That’s a massive skills gap, despite the assertion by Yoshitaka Sakurada that he has skilled bureaucrats backing him up. The Minister suggests that his biggest job is to read out written replies
- [The AI-Enabled Human-centric Future](https://www.p-i.com.au/ai-enabled-human-centric-future/) - There is a lot of angst associated with the future of work and rightly so. We are in the moment of profound change because of digitization and virtualization. But this is not the first-time humans have “face the end of work as we know it”, “mass redundancy” and other apocalyptic statements. There is a sense
- [Three Startups on a quest to change how we procure](https://www.p-i.com.au/three-startups-on-a-quest-to-change-how-we-procure/) - Cryptocurrencies are back in the news, but not for the right reasons. Crypto prices have crashed; people have lost money. The critics are gleeful, while supporters urge faith. So it would seem that no, we won’t be procuring goods and services up and down the supply chain using Bitcoin just yet. But while crypto was
- [Could the $40million NAB Executive fraud have been avoided?](https://www.p-i.com.au/how-could-40million-the-nab-executive-fraud-been-avoided/) - $40 million! That is how much an ex-NAB executive was able to defraud from the bank before being detected. What would happen to your business if you lost even a fraction of that kind of money? Trust is important in a business. But so is vigilance against untrustworthy people. People are complex; as a result,
- [7 Steps To Mastering Your Indirect Spend Analysis](https://www.p-i.com.au/7-steps-to-mastering-your-indirect-spend-analysis/) - Spend Analysis is the systematic process of collecting, cleansing, segmenting and analysing information about the money spent through your organisation’s suppliers, with the aim of identifying the spend areas that have the biggest impact on both your organisation’s top-line and bottom-line figures. PI Data Analytics tool helps you collect the spend data! Click
- [Why it’s time to move on from Electronic Resource Planning (ERP) platforms](https://www.p-i.com.au/why-its-time-to-move-on-from-electronic-resource-planning-erp-platforms/) - NSYNC, The Simpsons, chokers. Some things just seemed cool in the nineties. Now… not so much. And in terms of business management, we’ll add ERPs to that list. Sure, the organisation you run or work for may have purchased an Electronic Resource Planning platform more recently – even this year – but little has changed
- [Procurement in the Roaring '20s](https://www.p-i.com.au/procurement-in-the-roaring-20s/) - “May you live in interesting times”. A blessing or a curse? Perhaps that’s something to be determined in hindsight but, right now, it’s looking like 2020 will be an interesting year. At least. It has certainly started on fire, with significant parts of Australia in flames. At multiple fire fronts, people are undertaking herculean acts
- [Indirect Spend: 6 Ways to Tackle It](https://www.p-i.com.au/indirect-spend-6-ways-to-tackle-it/) - Indirect spend shares the fate of many a New Year’s Resolution. We make promises to tackle it head on and then abandon it at the first sign of difficulty. It’s tempting to put it in the too hard basket, but ignoring it could very well be doing you terminal damage. Indirect spend has the potential
- [Bridging Supply Chain Gaps in the Time of COVID-19](https://www.p-i.com.au/bridging-supply-chain-gaps-in-the-time-of-covid-19/) - All over the world, strict quarantine and physical distancing measures have resulted in delays, lack of manpower, and loss of jobs for different companies in charge of keeping the supply chain moving. As logistics professionals struggle to come to grips with the new normal, technology steps up and provides potential solutions for bridging the widest
- [7 Keys to a Successful Reverse Auction](https://www.p-i.com.au/7-keys-to-a-successful-reverse-auction/) - Reverse Auctions are a great way to generate significant cost savings. According to CNBC, companies are typically saving 10 to 20% by using reverse auctions, but I’ve also seen others quote savings over 30%. However, it’s got to be done right. So, how do you run a successful reverse auction? Key #1 – Choose the
- [Do You Have an Agile Supply Chain?](https://www.p-i.com.au/how-agile-is-your-supply-chain/) - Now is the time to ensure you can respond quickly to changes in your supply chain. ‘Let’s face it – it can’t get any worse.’ This came from a man on ABC News, talking about the impact of COVID-19. It’s an optimistic statement at best, but more likely famous last words. Make no mistake about
- [The Category Management Playbook: The Procurement Bible Your Organisation Needs](https://www.p-i.com.au/the-category-management-playbook-the-procurement-bible-your-organisation-needs/) - We need to change our perception of procurement. For too long, it’s been synonymous with red tape and roadblocks. When people think of procurement, they think of a lumbering, complex, process-heavy beast that slows everything down. But that’s procurement done wrong. Procurement is meant to make life easier and more efficient; it really is. When
- [2021 Has Put the Spotlight on Supply & Contract Management (and it doesn’t look good)](https://www.p-i.com.au/2021-has-put-the-spotlight-on-supply-contract-management-and-it-doesnt-look-good/) - Nothing is more pressing right now than getting a handle on your supply & contract management. Given that supply & contract management is such a fundamental part of any business, this might seem a ludicrous statement; surely everyone has sorted out their supply & contract management hygiene by now? Short answer: no, they haven’t. It
- [Procurement Strategy for an Unpredictable World](https://www.p-i.com.au/procurement-strategy-for-an-unpredictable-world/) - The future of procurement strategy is data driven. In fact, it should already be a reality in your organisation. I don’t believe this is something I have to convince you of. We all accept it. My question is: are we actually using data correctly? Do we really understand what data is? Do we even know
- [Reverse Auctions: It’s Time to Embrace the Future](https://www.p-i.com.au/reverse-auctions-its-time-to-embrace-the-future/) - “We’ve always done it this way” The landscape of failed businesses is littered with this phrase. It’s a death knell. More often than not, it represents a mindset unwilling to embrace a new form of technology, a new, more efficient way of doing business or delivering on customers’ desires. Every second, in every city around

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