In the not too distant future, quick and dirty financial gains will no longer be the only value-creation lever considered to evaluate buyers and their performance. So long Savings…the new challenge facing buyers will be the multiplication and diversity of the objectives and KPIs to which they will be held accountable.
Determine customer Norauto, founded in 1970, is the pioneer of the car care center concept in France. Today, Norauto is the European leader in car maintenance, with more than 600 Norauto centers in eight countries providing multi-brand maintenance solutions for motorists in terms of maintenance, comfort and safety.
Just one year after the Determine Cloud Platform was put into production, a continuous improvement process was implemented involving Prisca Foucart – E-procurement manager at Norauto, Romain Chauvet – P2P product manager at Determine and Pascal Honno – Account Manager at Determine. Here is an account of this exciting exchange.
Considering the challenges facing modern business, CLM continues to increase in importance across the wider enterprise. Contract management technology may very well be the unsung hero of the procurement technology landscape. It has been steadily improving for two decades, from straight document storage, to metadata and redlining, to today’s full enterprise contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions. […]
The challenges and solutions of effective TPRM. Organizations today and in the future will have to gain more visibility into their supplier information. Data is coming from everywhere – spend, supplier contracts, and other third-party information – and it can overwhelm procurement departments. Part of building a third party risk management strategy (TPRM) includes gaining […]
Optimizing source-to-contract means focusing on wider business needs. In Part 1 of this two-part blog we addressed the initial approach of S2C. Our viewpoint is, that while S2C is often focused on procurement as the primary users of the technology, decisions around adopting the components — such as sourcing, contract management and supplier management — […]
To be effective at source-to-contract (S2C), procurement organizations must be able to properly align data and processes with automation. Often referred to as upstream procurement, “source-to-contract” defines the approaches for how to connect the efforts related to spend analysis, sourcing, contract management and supplier management. At its most basic, these processes encompass all the pre-requisites […]
