Partners Tackling Carbon Emissions in Procurement

In a world increasingly aware of the environmental impact of business operations, businesses with supply chains must step up their game.

Kerrie Kennedy

May 25, 2023

5 Tips For Attracting Gen Z Talent To Procurement

How often do you really stop and think about what drew you to procurement in the first place?

Kerrie Kennedy

April 20, 2023

Keelvar Konnect 2023 Goes Stateside

Taking place March 23, Keelvar Konnect 2023 was the perfect opportunity to bring together procurement professionals from different industries for a day of sharing insights and best sourcing practices.

Eddie McDaid

April 11, 2023

How Carlsberg Brewed Up a Winning Sourcing Strategy

Carlsberg's Logistics explains the unique challenges the company has faced in the past few years and how they have leveraged technology including sourcing optimization to overcome many of these obstacles.

Kerrie Kennedy

April 11, 2023

Keelvar & SAP Ariba: The Perfect Sourcing Duo

Keelvar's best-of-breed Sourcing Optimizer enhances SAP Ariba by enabling customers to effortlessly manage sophisticated spend areas such as logistics, packaging, and MRO right from SAP Ariba.

Eddie McDaid

April 11, 2023

CJ Logistics America's 3PL Sourcing Transformation

Transportation sourcing has had some rough times to contend with recently. But for CJ Logistics America, key to overcoming many of the challenges they faced was to leverage technology.

Kerrie Kennedy

April 6, 2023

Navigating Through Port Congestion and the Container Shortage

Tips from David L. Buss, CEO of DB Schenker USA, for navigating through global port congestion and the ocean container shortage.

David L Buss

March 28, 2023

Shattering Stereotypes: Women Making Waves in Procurement and Tech

In celebration of International Women's Day, we spoke to some of our incredible Keelvar customers, partners, and employees about their chosen career paths, and why women’s contributions to these industries are more critical than ever.

Keelvar

March 8, 2023

A Look at Sourcing Optimization vs Excel

Sourcing optimization offerings like Keelvar's offers a more dynamic and efficient way to manage sourcing processes. Sourcing Optimizer allows for the construction of a new price schedule to replace historical Excel spreadsheets.

Keelvar

March 2, 2023

Sourcing Challenges Where Optimization Shines

Sourcing optimization delivers powerful benefits for mid-sized and enterprise organizations alike, and we consistently see four common drivers for sourcing optimization.

Keelvar

March 2, 2023

Keelvar & SAP Ariba Combine for More Spend Competitively Sourced

Keelvar just announced some big upgrades to our Sourcing Optimizer Connector available on the SAP Store to bring customers even more savings and speed in their sourcing projects.

Keelvar

February 16, 2023

Reasons To Love Autonomous Sourcing

This Valentine's Day, why not take a moment to appreciate the technology that is changing the game for the procurement industry and making workloads a whole lot easier?

Kerrie Kennedy

February 16, 2023

Survey Shows Sustainability Isn't A Compromise For CPOs

In this blog, we consider how the procurement industry can make this priority a reality, by getting on top of supplier-related Scope 3 emissions, and treating sustainability as a value that can’t be compromised.

Adam Callaby

February 8, 2023

Getting to Grips with Autonomous Sourcing

Autonomous Sourcing refers to self-service, automated procurement workflows, typically for tactical and tail spend. But when it comes to bringing this kind of technology into your business, where do you start?

Keelvar

January 30, 2023

What’s Driving Procurement Burnout?

Did you know that 55% of sourcing teams are experiencing higher levels of burnout than ever before?

Adam Callaby

January 19, 2023

Keelvar's 12 Days of Sourcemas

Welcome to Keelvar's Twelve Days of Sourcemas: A Diary of a Stressed Sourcing Manager.

Keelvar

January 13, 2023

Sustainable Sourcing, Optimized

Due to the devastating impacts of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, sustainability is higher on the agenda of procurement leaders than ever before.

Kerrie Kennedy

January 4, 2023

Seasons Greetings & Wishes for Procurement

Keelvar

December 22, 2022

Tealbook & Keelvar: Driving Fantastic Gains for Procurement

Strategic procurement teams are hampered by disparate data. Tealbook in partnership with Keelvar will provide the data intelligence to power the procurement rocket ship to the future.

Mo Ahmad

December 20, 2022

Why Rudolph May Really Be an AI Bot

Could Santa's most famous reindeer be an AI-powered Bot?

Keelvar

December 12, 2022

How ‘Win-Win’ Sourcing Optimization Reduces Supplier Friction

Good procurement and sourcing teams are adept at managing purchaser-supplier interactions, but a user-centered e-sourcing tool can enable teams to maintain robust relationships at scale.

Chris Walsh

November 25, 2022

Keelvar Konnect: Back With A Bang In 2022

Keelvar Konnect was back with a bang in procurement hub Zurich, writes Keelvar CEO, Alan Holland.

Alan Holland

November 7, 2022

Sourcing Excellence From Strategic To Tail

The key to achieving sourcing excellence across strategic, tactical, tail spend? Stop treating spend separately.

Adam Callaby

November 4, 2022

Keelvar at Digital Procurement World 2022

Digital Procurement World 2022 drew a full house of procurement professionals from across the globe, marking a clear departure from the events that we became familiar with during COVID times.

Alan Holland

October 4, 2022

Sourcing Tech (of Jurassic Proportions) That Unlocks Your Potential

If deploying multiple RFQs for the effort of a single annual bid request or saving millions of dollars on cost aren’t reason enough to invest in dynamic market sourcing technology, then here are three more for you to consider.

Adam Callaby

September 30, 2022

Why Microsoft Shifted Their Sourcing Strategy

In this webinar recap, see how Microsoft shifted their sourcing strategy with the help of Keelvar’s sourcing solution.

Kerrie Kennedy

September 27, 2022

The Past, Present and Future of eSourcing

This blog details the rapid acceleration of e-sourcing since its inception in 1990, and how this will influence tomorrow’s best practice in procurement.

Rich Wilson

September 16, 2022

Is Your Procurement Digital Transformation Truly Transformative?

Procurement transformation initiatives can be cosmetic only – even if it impacts multiple areas of the procurement function.

Keelvar

September 2, 2022

New Paper Shows The Benefits of Optimizing Procurement

In order to compete for suppliers' business and pursue more limited supplies, buying organizations need to enter the market more frequently. Read how businesses are reaping the benefits of optimizing their procurement using a dynamic sourcing strategy.

Keelvar

August 31, 2022

Logistics Spot Buying: Let Sourcing Bots Handle It

For logistics procurement in particular long-term commitments have taken a backseat as the practice of spot buying has become more routine.

Kerrie Kennedy

August 26, 2022

How To Tackle Logistics Sourcing Challenges With Tech

Against the backdrop of a disrupted freight procurement market, innovative sourcing teams are increasingly looking to understand how people and sourcing software might best interact to achieve the business results they’re striving for.

Keelvar

August 26, 2022

What Logistics Sourcing Leaders Do Differently

Some distinctive features appear less in the sourcing processes of ‘laggards’ when compared with the ‘leaders’ who have adopted resourceful sourcing strategies.

Glenn Gardner

August 26, 2022

What’s New on the CPO’s Agenda? Ardent Partners Report

According to Ardent Partners' 17th annual State of Procurement report, while some trends continue on the same trajectory as in previous years, many CPO priorities are now notably different in the report's latest iteration.

Keelvar

August 26, 2022

Sourcing's Dilemma With Spot Buying

In many cases the annual RFP has been replaced by frequent spot buying events. Learn how sourcing technology can help.

Keelvar

August 26, 2022

Getting Ahead in Ocean Sourcing

AI-powered Sourcing Bots can offer procurement teams an extra edge to get ahead in ocean freight sourcing when agility matters, explains Keelvar's Alan Holland.

Keelvar

August 26, 2022

Procurement Automation: Parallels With Wall St

How the evolution of procurement automation is following a similar path to that of Wall Street trading

Alan Holland

August 26, 2022

How to Develop an Intelligent Sourcing Bot that Will Change your Procurement Process Forever

Keelvar’s inaugural Konnect event focused on the future of Sourcing Automation.

Benjamin Jakobus

August 23, 2022

Four Webinars to Inspire Sourcing Success

Sourcing leaders have had a lot to say last as they simultaneously navigated disruptions and modernization projects.

Keelvar

August 17, 2022

A Strategic Sourcing Solution To Win In Unstable Markets

The pandemic and dramatic shifts in buying have caused dramatic disruptions in the supply chain. Dynamic Market Sourcing might be the answer to increase your operational efficiency and reduce tactical firefighting.

Kerrie Kennedy

August 12, 2022

Time For A Digital Procurement Transformation? Think Sourcing Optimization

If you're considering a digital procurement transformation, Keelvar explain's why Sourcing Optimization technology might be the best choice for your sourcing team.

Keelvar

August 12, 2022

The Human Benefits of Transportation Procurement Digital Transformation

While technology is starting to play an important role in some shape or form in the logistics industry, it will be the digital transformation in freight procurement that separates the wheat from the chaff when it comes to world-class performance and world-class operations.

Katherine Barrios

August 2, 2022

Broadening The Reach of Modern Sourcing Software

‍Sourcing optimization solutions may have been around for over two decades, but they haven’t truly gone mainstream...yet.

Kerrie Kennedy

August 2, 2022

Sourcing Optimization: The Most Under-Utilized e-Sourcing Tool in Procurement

This short article outlines the most underutilized e-sourcing tool in procurement, namely sourcing optimization.

Keelvar

July 28, 2022

New ‘Voices of Sourcing Report’ Puts Spotlight on Current Pains and Opportunities

The procurement industry is in a state of flux. New challenges are emerging every day that play havoc with even the best and most strategically laid plans of sourcing professionals around the world. For many teams, the annual RFP has taken a backseat in favor of increasingly more routine sourcing, with logistics, in particular, seeing ever-more-frequent spot-buying needs.

Kerrie Kennedy

July 28, 2022

A New Visual Guide: Logistics Spot Buys and Smart Automation

Henry Ford is cited as having said, "if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." Like many memorable quotes, the message is both simple and powerful; if you are looking for an improved outcome from your efforts, you need to assess what can be done differently to ensure superior results.

Keelvar

July 28, 2022

Digital Procurement: How To Elevate Your Transformation Journey

Often, small but significant steps can be vital to elevating organizations' procurement functions into the next stage of their digital transformation.

Keelvar

July 8, 2022

Dynamic Market Sourcing: A Strategy for Procurement Leaders

The tactics best-in-class sourcing teams use to regain control of capacity and costs while ensuring procurement excellence.

Kerrie Kennedy

June 29, 2022

Keelvar to Discuss Sourcing Modernization at Digital Procurement World 2021

In just a few short years, digital transformation in procurement has shifted from a fleeting consideration in board meetings to the top of the business agenda for myriad companies in the supply chain industry. According to Procurement Leaders (April 2021) research, there are multiple drivers for procurement’s accelerated march towards digital transformation, ranging from data-driven business objectives to contemporary supply chain challenges and the expanding scope of disruptors such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Keelvar

June 8, 2022

Our Journey Continues: $24 Million Series B investment led by 83North

We're excited to announce that we've completed our Series B, a $24M round led by 83North. Our Series A investors also doubled down on their previous investments.

Alan Holland

May 20, 2022

Escaping the Hamster Wheel of Freight Sourcing in Volatile Markets

Transportation procurement professionals more than ever find themselves caught up in seemingly endless tactical activities.

Dylan Alperin

May 13, 2022

Supply meets demand: New sourcing automation solution targets ocean freight procurement

Keelvar provides new AI-powered ocean freight sourcing automation software to help procurement teams respond in disruptive climates.

Keelvar

May 9, 2022

Striking A Balance With eSourcing solutions

eSourcing solutions can help your organization optimize its sourcing strategies and improve supplier performance. This article looks at the difference between basic eSourcing and optimization

Keelvar

May 5, 2022

What is the most important KPI for an eSourcing solution?

Unfortunately, if we measure the adoption of Sourcing Optimization technology over the last 15 years, it’s not a rosy picture of success. Despite long years of development, many facelifts and refocused efforts in converting business models from customized projects into “self-service” solutions, the adoption rate of these technologies is still hovering at a small percentage of the organizations that could benefit.

Alan Holland

May 4, 2022

A Shift in Air Freight Procurement Strategy

Global supply chains have been affected in countless ways -- read why air freight procurement has been particularly impacted.

David Siedt

April 21, 2022

How Logistics Procurement Teams Can Mitigate Risks in Ocean Freight Transport

Logistics managers across the world are striving to minimize supply chain disruptions. This post examines how “the stable door” should have been bolted in the first place.

Alan Holland

April 14, 2022

Keelvar Launches Intelligent Sourcing Automation for Air Freight Procurement

Read how Keelvar's AI-enabled procurement solutions radically improves sourcing agility, efficiency and effectiveness.

Keelvar

April 14, 2022

Choosing the Best Sourcing Strategy

Sourcing strategy planning has received little attention for technology providers. It is assumed that RFX rules and eAuction designs are chosen outside of the tool in some undefined process and this can be where the first mistakes are made leading to a competition failure.

Alan Holland

April 14, 2022

Information Security Now a Top Priority in Strategic Sourcing

Information security is a journey where we move forward on with determination and resolve, ensuring we are as best prepared as possible for the next risk.

JP O'Gorman

April 14, 2022

An Introduction to Sourcing Optimization

Sourcing Optimization is one of the best ways to reduce spending and increase the efficiency of your strategic sourcing process. Discover why.

Keelvar

April 14, 2022

Procurement Automation Is Top Priority For CPOs In 2021, Ardent Partners Report Reveals

Digital transformation has been firmly pushed to the top of the business agenda for organizations in the past year, reports Ardent Partners

Kerrie Kennedy

April 8, 2022

A Guide to Strategic Sourcing

Learn how the software used for strategic sourcing has come of age and why a growing number of companies are turning to it to run complex sourcing events more efficiently.

Keelvar

April 8, 2022

Will COVID-19’s Impact Permanently Change Air Freight Sourcing?

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected global supply chains in countless ways, but the category of air cargo transportation has been particularly impacted. Dramatic drops in air cargo capacity continue to be a significant constraint due to the ongoing decline in commercial flights since Q1 2020. According to weekly flight data from Statista, for the week starting October 5, 2020, the number of scheduled flights globally was down by 46% compared to the same week in 2019. And Accenture, in its weekly updates to the industry, has reported that global air cargo capacity is down 22% year on year.

David Siedt

April 7, 2022

The Rise of the Sourcing Bots

In 2019, Sourcing Bots began automatically running negotiations for large enterprises and closing deals with almost no human involvement. This was a milestone in the path to Autonomous Procurement.

Sonja Straub

April 6, 2022

Adoption, Adoption, Adoption

Unfortunately, if we measure the adoption of Sourcing Optimization technology over the last 15 years, it’s a not a rosy picture of success. Despite long years of development, many facelifts and refocused efforts in converting business models from customized projects into “self-service” solutions, the adoption rate of these technologies is still hovering at a small percentage of the organizations that could benefit.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Millennials & A.I.

Millennials, a word which instills fear and hope in equal amounts. Millennials are (debatably) born between 1980 and 2000 and even though you may remember “The Simpsons” debut episode like it was yesterday an entire generation has not only entered the workforce but are now the largest generation in the American workforce. Maybe you already know this or maybe you are one!

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Auf Wiedersehen, Berlin

The impressive BME Symposium for Procurement and Logistics for 2016 has just concluded in Berlin. Among the many highlights, Siemens AG gave a presentation related to their experiences with Keelvar's Sourcing Optimization software entitled 'ESourcing 4,0'. Keelvar also attended as a conference partner and hosted a booth at the event and this post summarizes some of the conference highlights.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Buyers Meeting Point interviews Keelvar CEO, Alan Holland

Kelly Barner, a leading analyst of eProcurement systems and services interviewed Alan Holland on the topic of higher adoption of optimization backed eSourcing. The interview covers issues in relation to how modern software systems need to entice users and make them feel the software will help them accelerate and be more productive.

Benjamin Jakobus

April 6, 2022

eSourcing 4.0 – Siemens take on the future of eSourcing at the 51st BME Symposium on Purchasing and Logistics

Keelvar is proud to partner with the Association Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (BME) to support Europe’s largest gathering of procurement, logistics and supply chain professionals.Beginning on Wednesday, November 9, in Berlin, the conference will provide a forum where like-minded organizations can share ideas and experiences on a range of topics, including:

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Death of a Software Salesman

Arthur Miller’s 1949 play ‘Death of a Salesman’ is often listed as one of America’s finest and most influential stage dramas of the twentieth century. It was a tale that conveyed the American Dream but was interlaced with flashbacks that betrayed the contrast between illusion and reality. The Enterprise software sector echoes this drama in numerous ways and shares its inevitable ending.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Controlling Bid Aggression in eAuctions

The best sports teams in rugby, NFL, soccer and other sports know that controlled aggression is the key to success. Running onto a pitch in a fury usually ends in red cards or premature exhaustion and ultimately loss.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Drewry launch new Ocean Freight eSourcing Service

The world's leading ocean freight transportation consultancy and advisory service has launced a powerful new service for global ocean transport procurement. The new e-Sourcing Ocean Freight Solution (eSOFS™) combines Drewry’s robust freight rate benchmarking intelligence, seasoned industry expertise with leading-edge technology from Keelvar to bring speed and efficiency to ocean freight sourcing events.

Benjamin Jakobus

April 6, 2022

End2End Supply Chain Conference sponsored by Keelvar

Keelvar is proud to sponsor Ireland's leading supply chain event, End2End, due to take place in The Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin 4 on Wednesday Sept 28th. It will be chaired by Lorcan Sheehan, the experienced CEO of PerformanSC and talks from the following speakers will be included during the one day event:

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Game Theory and Procurement: Scaling Excellence

Game Theory is a term that is used liberally in the Procurement profession at present. It’s often used in the wrong context and is in danger of being regarded as a fad because it has been oversold as a panacea. It is quite common to see new ‘Centres of Excellence’ for Sourcing and Negotiations springing up with the intention that Game Theory is central to their strategy.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 - Procurement and Sourcing Technology

In the sourcing world Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Strategic Sourcing Award epitomises excellence, ingenuity and differentiation in critical aspects.Each year, Gartner highlights young vendors that have thrilled and excited customers with innovation and strong business impacts.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Incentivising Suppliers to be Innovative in Sourcing Exercises

Henry Ford famously once said that if he had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. He was a classic example of an innovator that was thinking outside of the box and delivering something that exceeded customer expectations.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Keelvar Named to Food Logistics’ 2016 Top 100 List

Cork, Ireland 2016 — Keelvar is proud to announce that it has been added to the prestigious Food Logistics Top 100 Listing for software companies that serve the food industry globally. Food Logistics, the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named Keelvar to its 2016 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Keelvar CEO to present to Harvard EconCS Group

Keelvar CEO, Dr Alan Holland, had the honour of being invited to the EconCS group in Harvard University. So following the Meet Keelvar breakfast seminar in Boston on Oct 13th he will speak to researchers on the topic of "Risk Management for Combinatorial Auctions: Theory & Practice". This will be an invitation only event addressed to a research audience.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Keelvar signs Open Letter on Autonomous Weapons delivered to the United Nations

Keelvar CEO, Alan Holland, has signed an open letter along with 116 founders of leading robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including Elon Musk of Tesla, that urges the United Nations to urgently address the challenge of lethal autonomous weapons (often called ‘killer robots’) and ban their use internationally.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Keelvar selected in '50 to Watch' List by Spend Matters

We are proud to announce that leading analysts in Spend Matters, that include Jason Busch, Thomas Kase and Peter Smith among others have included Keelvar as a company to watch for all enterprises buying procurement technology.It is a privilege to be included in such a prestigious list and we look forward to engaging with Spend Matters in a follow up article specifically about Keelvar. We will post a link once it is published.

Benjamin Jakobus

April 6, 2022

Keelvar World Tour Rolls into Darmstadt, London, Houston, Minneapolis & Dublin

Keelvar's World Tour continues in this Fall and Winter with events in Europe and North America. We begin with a Think Tank event organized by the Beyond Group in Darmstadt and then move to London for the eWorld event and then to Houston and Minneapolis before coming closer to home again with a roundtable event in Dublin.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Logistics Vs Procurement

Logistics and procurement teams often end up in conflict about how ocean and air freight transport should be procured. Battle lines within major companies are being drawn between these internal groups as the contracting season gets into full swing shortly. But logistics and procurement teams should stop to consider what Sun Tzu once wrote, “The Supreme Art of War is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Key Trends in Procurement

Carlos Alvarenga of Ernst & Young recently wrote a piece for Procurement Leaders outlining his vision of what procurement will look like in 2025 in the first installment of a series of posts. In this article we lay out our predictions for how strategic thinking will change as we move towards 2020, and how sourcing will unleash much greater efficiencies in the years to come.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Keelvar's CEO to speak at ISM 2018

Keelvar's CEO has been invited by Google's Bernd Huber and former Google Head of Procure to Pay, David Natoff, to speak about Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Sourcing at ISM 2018. Keelvar is a clear leader in the race to automate sourcing and this prestigious guest invite to speak at the world's leading supplier management conference is a testament to the significance of the technical achievements to date and also the significant changes that are imminent due to AI.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Keelvar's August Release packed with Powerful New Features

Keelvar's August release contains many new important features aimed at making it faster to load data; having greater flexibility to automate management of data outliers and limit actions that could be inadvertent. ‍

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Mega-Bids: the good, the bad and the ugly.

How large sourcing events can turn into a Fyre Festival style disaster when preparation is overlooked.Large enterprises like to pool spend and run large sourcing events that attract wide supplier interest and maximize competitive tension. It makes complete sense but comes with a health warning: if you fail to prepare yourself for a flood of bidders and a deluge of bid data then chaos will ensue.

Sonja Straub

April 6, 2022

Why too much Choice is Demotivating

Did you know that giving customers too much choice is likely to reduce sales?It is true and something I experienced personally when attempting to purchase a mobile phone recently. I was clear in my intention, I knew the make of phone I wanted and as a frequent international traveller I felt the choice of package would be straightforward.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Minneapolis - Oct 11th

AI-enabled Sourcing Bots are being deployed in 2018 for the first time, leveraging AI to automate strategic sourcing. This is the biggest advance in procurement since the invention of the eAuction and will herald a new era in sophisticated sourcing operations with implications for how teams are organized, new roles required, roles no longer required and also how organizations structure teams globally.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

How Often Should Transport RFTs be Published?

In a recent survey conducted by Xeneta, shippers were asked how often they ran tendering exercises. This is a very interesting question because it poses several challenges for procurement teams and the right answer must address several unique factors for each business.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Oracle Modern Procurement - From Facebook to Supplier Collaboration

I attended the Oracle Modern Procurement event in London yesterday (October 9th) hosted in conjunction with Enrich.It was a really fun session looking to explore the growth of social media and the impact on procurement. Following opening remarks by Phil Burgess of Oracle, the affable Peter Smith of Spendmatters UK took to the stage.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Procurement: What will it look like in 2020?

The New Year typically heralds a look at the future and predictions for what lies ahead. We lay out some predictions for how strategic thinking will evolve quickly as we move towards 2020 and how sourcing will unleash much greater efficiencies in the years to come. The following key trends will dominate change in the next five years:

Benjamin Jakobus

April 6, 2022

Risk management in the Era of Trump and Brexit

Globalization has hit reverse and more trade barriers can be expected as protectionism takes hold. Nobody knows how high or exactly where these barriers will exist. The challenges for procurement teams around the impending increases in protectionist policies in the UK and USA are difficult to manage but there are measures that can be taken in sourcing decisions to mitigate potential damage.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Is Recent Criticism of IBM's Watson Unfair?

On May 8th, Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO of Social Capital, declared on CNBC that “Watson is a joke, just to be completely honest”. “I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something".

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Self-Driving Vehicles and Drones - What it means for procurement

Driverless vehicles are no longer a concept confined to science fiction, they are a tangible and very real option for buyers in certain locations to consider. Forecasts indicate that autonomous cars would be available in dealerships as soon as 2020 and by 2040 that 75% of all vehicles will be autonomous.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

SaaS Training - How it Works Best in an Agile Setting

Best practice training for SaaS is different in the way it is designed, delivered and sold because methodologies need to be mindful of the fast-changing world of SaaS applications. The biggest challenge of designing training for SaaS applications is maintenance.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Sourcing Automation Conference: Keelvar Konnect in Zurich

Following the success of Konnect in Amsterdam, the next stop for Keelvar Konnect was Zurich on November 6th 2019. Keelvar’s Sourcing Automation Conference drew a full house of procurement professionals from Europe, North and South America.

Sonja Straub

April 6, 2022

Sourcing Automation - Bot Prototyping at Konnect ‘19

Keelvar’s inaugural Konnect event took place on May 9th last in the city of bicycles and canals, Amsterdam. Konnect ‘19 drew a large audience of experts in Procurement across Europe as the focus of the day was Sourcing Automation. The event showcased real examples of Sourcing Bot prototypes tackling actual business challenges so digital transformation and hands-on problem solving was a core aspect of this unique event.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

How Sourcing Bots automate 93% of tasks in Ocean mini-tenders

Keelvar and Siemens hosted a Learning Lab at Digital Procurement World in Amsterdam on September 19th last, presenting the successful deployment of Keelvar’s Sourcing Bot at Siemens AG.

Sonja Straub

April 6, 2022

Sourcing Bots: What, why and how.

Procurement in 2019 has hardly evolved in almost twenty years. Sourcing teams still face the same difficulties that they did since the turn of the millennium:

Benjamin Jakobus

April 6, 2022

Sourcing Optimization v eSourcing

I am often asked by companies unfamiliar with sourcing optimization why it’s different to ordinary eSourcing tools and why it costs more. There are many standard eSourcing solutions that come with ERPs and some other independent vendors that offer standalone eSourcing software solutions.

Alan Holland

April 6, 2022

Keelvar - Category Leaders in Sourcing Automation & Autonomous Procurement

In a previous post of mine, I talked about the problems that modern procurement teams still face despite decades of technological advances. I introduced sourcing optimization as one of my top bets for introducing cost and time savings into your organization.

Benjamin Jakobus

April 6, 2022