Procurement Insights

MAY 3, 2025

Below are the oldest procurement blogs identified from the web results, ranked by their earliest documented or implied launch date, with details on their content, longevity, and relevance to procurement professionals. Content: Covers procurement technology (e.g., organizational founding, industry presence).

Procurement 40

Procurement Supply Chain Optimization Ethics supply chain software solutions 40

Procurement Insights

JANUARY 28, 2025

EDITOR’S NOTE: In today’s post, I share my following comment in a LinkedIn discussion stream regarding implementing AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI solutions in the procurement industry. In short, what will work, what doesn’t work, and what you can do about it.

Procurement 80

Procurement Supply chain Collaboration Supply management 80

Procurement Insights

MAY 11, 2025

Spreadsheets became a near-universal tool in business and procurement by the mid-2010s. AI Adoption in Procurement (Red Line): Minimal adoption before 2010. Rapid acceleration from 2020 onward, reaching an estimated 6070% by 2025, as AI becomes a strategic priority for procurement leaders.

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Efficiency Supply Chain Optimization Sustainability 52

Procurement Insights

JULY 8, 2024

” Let’s travel back to 2007 and then ahead to 2024. If we replace the word ERP with Generative AI, would the 2007 predictions by CAPS, ISM, and Kearney be any different today than they were back then? Kearney Report, which was originally released in May 2007.

Supply chain 52

Supply chain Supply Networking Collaboration 52

Procurement Insights

AUGUST 30, 2023

As you read this post originally published in May 2007 about “enabling technology and the emergence of the metaprise,” can the three-stage implementation framework be as successful today as it was back then? The Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series was based on my review of the ISM, CAPS and A.T.

Real-time Visibility 52

Real-time Visibility Procurement supply chain software solutions Buyers 52

Procurement Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Below is Part 6 of the 7-Part Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series , where I provide an extensive breakdown of the ISM, CAPS, and AT Kearney report originally released in May 2007. Are you in the software business or the procurement business? What is the old saying about big ships turning slowly?

Procurement 80

Procurement supply chain software solutions Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain 80

Procurement Insights

MAY 12, 2025

In my fall 2004 analyses of a study on the use of web-based applications I made the following observation: It is my position that a true centralization of procurement objectives requires a decentralized architecture that is based on the real-world operating attributes of all transactional stakeholders starting at the local or regional level.

Supply Chain Efficiency 52

Supply Chain Efficiency Agile and Lean Supply Chain Contract Networking 52