Wednesday, August 26th 2020
This week in
Consulting
How to optimize your sourcing process?
This week’s must read
Understanding spending, setting savings goals or managing sourcing are the challenges facing procurement in 2020.
This Week’s Must Read is an insight piece from The Hackett Group on how procurement teams can reduce enterprise costs.
Thought Leadership
Once shortages are identified , well-managed supply chain system is a vital weapon in the war against the coronavirus (and future pandemics, as well)
Interesting article on practices that flows throughout the supply chain, or, as we prefer to call it, the supply network.
There are many new digital procurement solutions out there. This article by Spendesk present 9 new tools to investigate. How do you make sense of all this information, and what is your process to decide which solution is right for our needs?
According to CIPS, the 5 skills that CPOs look for in a new procurement employee include quantitative skills and sourcing competencies. But what about interpersonal skills? Don’t you think it is equally important to be able to develop the relationship with noth internal clients and suppliers?
This week’s Consulting News
| HrNxt Newsdesk
| Rebecca Lloyd @Pwc
| PRNewswire
| Consultancy.uk
This week’s media
Are you confused about the difference between procurement and purchasing?
Consulting sourcing tips
Demand Management for Consulting and Why You Need It
Demand management is an indispensable instrument for procurement professionals and businesses in general. Implementing it for the consultancy category is a no-brainer if you want to maintain spend control and strategic alignment.
How to set-up an Internal Consulting Group?
Internal Consulting is a growing trend today. In this article, you’ll learn how to set up your internal consulting group.
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Hélène Laffitte is the CEO of Consulting Quest, a Global Performance-Driven Consulting Platform and author of “Smart Consulting Sourcing”, a step by step guide to getting the best ROI from your consulting. With a blend of experience in Procurement and Consulting, Hélène is passionate about helping Companies create more value through Consulting.
