Process & tools
How purchasing work flows from need to payment, how spend is analysed and which software supports each step.
- Buying a home like a procurement pro: the purchasing checklist applied to real estate
How the procurement cycle applies to buying a home: defining the need, market analysis, total cost of ownership including transaction taxes, due diligence, negotiation and contract review, with official sources for England and the US.
- Contract management after signature: obligations, changes, price reviews and renewals
How buyers manage a contract once it is signed: the handover from sourcing, an obligations register, roles, performance reviews, change control, price adjustment, claims and disputes, renewals and exit, plus the rules on modifying public contracts in the EU and the UK.
- Procurement reading list: where the profession's knowledge is published
A guide to the primary sources of procurement and supply chain knowledge: the legal texts, professional bodies, standards, public data series, academic journals and classic articles worth reading, and how to use each.
- Spend analysis: how to find out what your organisation really buys
A practical guide to spend analysis: extracting data from accounts payable and purchasing systems, cleansing and normalising suppliers, classifying with a taxonomy such as UNSPSC, and turning the cube into savings opportunities.
- The e-procurement software landscape: what each type of tool does
A neutral map of procurement software: source-to-pay suites, e-sourcing, contract lifecycle management, supplier management, procure-to-pay, catalogues and punchout, e-invoicing and Peppol, spend analytics, and how to choose.
- The procurement process, step by step: from need to payment
The procurement process explained step by step: identifying the need, specification, sourcing, evaluation, contracting, ordering, receipt, invoice matching, payment and supplier management. Source-to-pay vs procure-to-pay.
