Blog - Procurement Intelligence Unit

21
DEC
2011

And the winner is.... Procurement Intelligence Unit!

Author: Kevin Monahan - Categories: Procurement Intelligence

We're delighted to announce the Procurement Intelligence Unit (PIU) has recently won the Best Newcomer of the Year Award at the prestigious Data & Digital Publishing Awards 2011. more

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27
MAY
2010

Managing the management consultants - storming the bastion

Author: Kevin Monahan - Categories: Best Practice & Benchmarking

Who manages the management consultants is one of the fundamental questions facing procurement organisations that have become ever-more reliant on the services they offer. Back in 2009 our research suggested that this was a top concern among senior procurement executives and was fast emerging as a priority category for realising potential savings – even though our study appeared to back up the theory that it was one of the 'last bastions' of spend to bring under control. With this in mind, it seemed natural to make this spend category the major focus of the first in a series of PIU workshops, which will be hosted both in the UK and Europe throughout 2010. more

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14
DEC
2009

Missing a Trick? The art of marketing procurement

Author: Kevin Monahan - Categories: Procurement Intelligence

Are marketing and procurement really that far apart? Kevin Monahan suggests both may have more in common than we might expect, with lessons to be learned on both sides. more

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08
OCT
2009

Best practice for best price: The category management techniques that count

Author: Kevin Monahan - Categories: Best Practice & Benchmarking

The Procurement Intelligence Unit (PIU) today launched its 'Cost Mastery' benchmarking study – research that, we hope, will enable procurement organisations across the world to identify the behaviours and practices adopted by the top performers when it comes to the indirect spend categories that really matter. more

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