Procurement Case Studies

Spend Analytics – Enabling the Journey to Procurement Category Management

The most successful procurement organizations manage spend with some form of category management. Achieving success in category management requires a journey of many...

Procurement Strategy Planning: Roadmap to Results

Procurement organizations have been driving towards closer alignment with corporate objectives for some time. But wanting to achieve this alignment and actually making...

Making the Journey From Tactical to Strategic Procurement

Although leading procurement organizations become more mature every year, relationships with internal stakeholders often remain stuck in the perceptions of the past. The...

Drive Savings, Build a World-Class Procurement Organization with a Strategic Assessment

Do you want to increase your chances for success, achieve higher ROI, and learn/ improve continuously? It is not impossible and it is...

Proactive Procurement Talent & Knowledge Management Whitepaper

Today’s rapidly changing workforce makes proactive talent and knowledge management a must for leading procurement organizations. Accelerating workforce trends are driving rapid change across...

Insights from ProcureAbility’s Q1 2017 Corporate Services Index

This whitepaper contains key insights from ProcureAbility's most recent Corporate Services Index (CSI). Each quarter, ProcureAbilityTM publishes its CSI, which is available to ProcureAbility...

Creating an Effective Procurement Strategy

When talking with procurement executives about their strategic planning efforts, we hear a wide spectrum of responses regarding how formal (or informal) their...

Best Practices in Utility Procurement 2020

The utility industry is in the midst of a sea-change. In years past, excellence in procurement was seen as a mere feather in a corporation’s cap....

The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part II

Since procurement has started to have a greater impact on corporate strategy, the demand for enterprise procurement technology has reached new heights. Part II of ProcureAbility's...

The Procurement Technology Lifecycle: Part I

Part I of this two-part series starts with “The Procurement Technology Landscape”—a look into the impact of the “cloud” and other changes in the market. The...

Building a Talent and Knowledge Management Program: The New Imperative

Major changes in the procurement talent landscape have created a need for formalized talent and knowledge-management programs. Organizations must assess what evolving skills are needed and...

Global Sourcing for Electric and Gas Utilities

More than ever before, Global 1000 organizations rely on procurement to provide incremental sources of value—and electric and gas utilities are no different. With evolving supplier...

5 Steps to Creating a Successful Procurement Strategy

A procurement strategy is one of the most important tools that a procurement organization has to maximize its value contribution to the company. This strategy serves...

Five Mistakes That Can Sabotage a Successful Procurement Transformation

This whitepaper was created to help ensure success of your organization’s endeavors in 2012. Imagine this as your New Year’s resolution: “This year, I plan to...

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part III

Procurement Transformation: Creating Sustainability A successful Procurement Transformation has long-term, sustainable benefits. Achieving sustainability requires planning your blueprint’s rollout, hiring the right staff and developing talent, instituting...

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part II

ProcureAbility's Fast Track Procurement Transformation Process accelerates Procurement Transformation utilizing a flexible and innovative construct that focuses and prioritizes collaborative efforts. We introduced ProcureAbility’s Fast Track...

Procurement Transformation on the Fast Track: Doing More with Less: Part I

This whitepaper (Part I of a three-part series) focuses on preparing for Procurement Transformation and includes trends, critical components, a fast track process,...

The Art of Negotiation: Best Practices for Success

To remain competitive in today’s environment, companies must take an innovative, aggressive approach to contract renegotiation and re-sourcing. This whitepaper closely examines techniques that are key...

Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part III

Sourcing in today’s environment requires a quick response to corporate savings requirements. This whitepaper, the third in a series, focuses on how ProcureAbility uses in-depth supply...

Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part II

Now is the time to re-source and renegotiate contracts that contain outdated pricing structures. This whitepaper, the second in a series, focuses on...

Five Strategies to Achieve Tangible Savings with Strategic Sourcing: Part I

Now is the time to re-source and renegotiate contracts that contain outdated pricing structures. This whitepaper, the first in a series, focuses on...