Test Your Knowledge Of The Key Trends In Buying
How well do you understand the key trends in buying? That is the trends that are changing how your customers buy. Take a short quiz to find out.
What ‘Know Your Customer’ Means In 2013
In this era of stalled buying decisions and increasingly complex buying processes sellers cannot really know their customers without understanding how and why they buy.
Why Only Hard Savings Can Close The Deal
Sellers are not the only ones obsessed with making their numbers. Buyers have targets too – typically ambitious targets for cost reduction. However, increasingly only hard savings have the power to close the sale. We all know that buyers are increasingly numbers obsessed. The question is what format must those numbers be in […]
Alignment – Procurement’s Great Balancing Act
Globalization places great demands on the supply chain, in particular the challenge of aligning demand and supply. The requirement is to maximize product availability and supply flexibility while minimizing costs, inventory and investment levels. This is no easy task and one that relies on the development of a highly skilled, integrated and collaborative; procurement, supply […]
Globalization Makes Procurement King!
Globalization has been the dominant economic trend for more than two decade. Not only has it fundamentally changed the world we live in, but it has changed procurement and buying too. The Globalization Of Procurement Globalization is the high-octane fuel propelling procurement to new levels. It has transformed procurement’s role, scope and importance, transforming it from […]
Why CPO’s Get Upset Watching The News
What you own you control, but big corporations no longer own large chunks of their production process, or supply chain. They are increasingly dependent on outside actors for their success and are vulnerable to a new array of risks as a result. Resilience and Risk Management Global supply chains mean that organizations are dependent on […]
Do You Know Why Procurement Really Matters?
Few salespeople understand how much procurement really matters to the organization. Even if salespeople are not directly selling to procurement this myopia can result in avoidable frustration, not to mention lost sales! Are You Indifferent To Procurement? Salespeople/sales teams are often taken by surprise at the growing power and influence of procurement within their customer […]
Can You Think Like A CEO?
Do you know what is on the mind of the CEO, or indeed the CFO in the organizations you are selling? It is their agenda that is increasingly shaping the agenda in all other departments. So, thinking like the CEO or CFO should help you to boost your sales performance and success. The CEO/CFO […]
The New Love Affair Between CEOs and CPOs
Few managers or departments can write their CEO a cheque for millions and promise more again next year. Procurement however is the exception. Its almost un-paralleled ability to boost the bottom line has earned it a position of influence and power. Little wonder then that procurement is the CEO’s new best friend. Strategies for Low […]
What Are Your Buyers KPIs?
Knowing the buyer’s KPIs is essential if you really want to understand the motivation and behaviour of the professional buyer. As salespeople you and I are measured based on reaching our sales target, no doubt with some consideration of margin. But how are our counterparts in procurement measured? What’s Driving Your Buyer? Salespeople will rightly […]
Procurement’s Best Year Yet
We are confidently predicting that 2013 will be a great year for those on the opposite side of the table – the procurement team. Indeed it may be their best year yet. That is clearly good news for buyers, but it presents opportunities for sellers too.
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