For the longest time, the procurement scale has tipped in favor of the buyer. However, the post-pandemic era has seen a dramatic shift in the business landscape. Constrained supply chains and the associated shortages have resulted in mounting pressures from the...
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is an investment and corporate philosophy built around sustainability and social responsibility. Procurement ESG programs have taken center stage over the last couple of years, as more and more countries are committing to...
One of the most critical lessons learned during the pandemic and its aftermath has been the importance of supply chain resilience. As organizations have been coming to grips with this reality, they have also been working toward achieving the goal of sustainability....
Box is one of the most widely used enterprise technologies in the world for secure content management, workflow, and collaboration. Box continuously advocates for ESG and supplier diversity, but previous visibility into their supplier diversity spending was limited....
Supplier diversity is increasingly being recognized as a critical objective for procurement. There are multiple reasons why this is such an important goal. From a societal viewpoint, organizations that achieve supplier diversity help address inequality and social...
We don’t need to go into the myriad challenges that have disrupted procurement and sourcing over the past two years. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first began, the supply chain has been upended—although the ultimate cause of the disruption might not be what you think....
Arkestro is the leading Predictive Procurement Orchestration platform, and now it’s about to undertake the next stage in its growth story. The company is pleased to announce that it has successfully landed Series A funding of $26 million. This round of funding was led...
In June 2022, Spend Matters released the Spring SolutionMap procurement technology benchmarking rankings. This year’s cycle featured 69 leading vendors across ten different technology categories. Spend Matters’ analysts ranked Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement...
Harvard Business Review has several articles that provide an excellent primer on the background of procurement in the health and pharma industries and the challenges they‘ve faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors point to the need for procurement to play a...
For the longest time, the procurement scale has tipped in favor of the buyer. However, the post-pandemic era has seen a dramatic shift in the business landscape. Constrained supply chains and the associated shortages have resulted in mounting pressures from the...
ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) is an investment and corporate philosophy built around sustainability and social responsibility. Procurement ESG programs have taken center stage over the last couple of years, as more and more countries are committing to...
One of the most critical lessons learned during the pandemic and its aftermath has been the importance of supply chain resilience. As organizations have been coming to grips with this reality, they have also been working toward achieving the goal of sustainability....
Box is one of the most widely used enterprise technologies in the world for secure content management, workflow, and collaboration. Box continuously advocates for ESG and supplier diversity, but previous visibility into their supplier diversity spending was limited....
Supplier diversity is increasingly being recognized as a critical objective for procurement. There are multiple reasons why this is such an important goal. From a societal viewpoint, organizations that achieve supplier diversity help address inequality and social...
We don’t need to go into the myriad challenges that have disrupted procurement and sourcing over the past two years. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first began, the supply chain has been upended—although the ultimate cause of the disruption might not be what you think....
Arkestro is the leading Predictive Procurement Orchestration platform, and now it’s about to undertake the next stage in its growth story. The company is pleased to announce that it has successfully landed Series A funding of $26 million. This round of funding was led...
In June 2022, Spend Matters released the Spring SolutionMap procurement technology benchmarking rankings. This year’s cycle featured 69 leading vendors across ten different technology categories. Spend Matters’ analysts ranked Arkestro’s Predictive Procurement...
Harvard Business Review has several articles that provide an excellent primer on the background of procurement in the health and pharma industries and the challenges they‘ve faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors point to the need for procurement to play a...