Zycus PLAN · Global Virtual Event · 3 Procurement World Premieres · November 18, 2026 Register Now

Ways to Measure Procurement Profit and Loss for your Business

Leaving reverse auctions in the dust: Discovering a next generation of sourcing technologies

Business historians will look back on recent and future decades in procurement and supply chain history by noting how quickly individuals, organizations and even governments began to embrace new types of negotiation technologies and philosophies during this timeframe. One of the largest changes no doubt started to occur when a certain set of more advanced […]

Leaving reverse auctions in the dust: Discovering a next generation of sourcing technologies Read More »

Ways to Measure Procurement Profit and Loss for your Business

Measuring Procurement Profit and Loss: A 2025 Guide for Business Leaders

Procurement is no longer just about purchasing—it’s a strategic driver of financial performance. One of the most important ways to prove procurement’s value is by measuring procurement profit and loss (P&L). By linking procurement activities directly to balance sheets and income statements, businesses can demonstrate procurement’s impact on profitability, efficiency, and resilience. This article outlines

Measuring Procurement Profit and Loss: A 2025 Guide for Business Leaders Read More »

Social Media in Procurement: Sourcing & Supplier Risk

Social Media in Procurement: How to Improve Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Risk

TL;DR Social media is most useful to procurement as an early-warning and discovery layer, not as a standalone source of truth.  High-value use cases include supplier risk monitoring, procurement market intelligence, supplier discovery, reputation monitoring, and relationship or innovation signals.  Use a Signal -> Evidence -> Action model: detect a signal, corroborate it with authoritative

Social Media in Procurement: How to Improve Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Risk Read More »

Why Maintaining Supplier Relationship Management is Important

Why Maintaining Supplier Relationship Management is Important?

In this article, you’ll learn about why maintaining supplier relationship management is important to your procurement function. Why Organizations Rely on Supplier Relationship Management? In a volatile business environment, to increase the competency and add new competitive advantages, organizations rely on supplier relationship management. Having a healthy relationship with the suppliers, helps organization receive better

Why Maintaining Supplier Relationship Management is Important? Read More »

Contract Management Best Practices

These 5 Contract Management Best Practices can do Wonders!

What is Contract Management? Contract Management refers to the systematic administration of contracts made with various parties, including employees, customers, partners, and vendors. This process is crucial for ensuring that all contractual agreements are adhered to and managed effectively. The individual responsible for overseeing contract management is known as a Contract Manager. This role involves

These 5 Contract Management Best Practices can do Wonders! Read More »

You Sure Didn’t Realize these Benefits of Strategic Sourcing

You Sure Didn’t Realize these Benefits of Strategic Sourcing

In this article, you will learn about the various benefits of strategic sourcing and why it is worth any investment for emerging organizations. We’ll discuss an overview of ‘Strategic decision making on future sourcing projects.’ Strategic sourcing helps enterprises identify, evaluate, negotiate, and implement the optimal mix of goods and services. The Sourcing Cycle Today,

You Sure Didn’t Realize these Benefits of Strategic Sourcing Read More »

Reducing Spend Through Procurement – BFSI perspective

3 Steps to Reducing Spend Through Procurement – BFSI perspective

Although the economic environment is more benign than at this time last year and there are signs of recovery, banks and financial services firms are still facing uncertainty. Slow economic growth coupled with new banking regulations on the horizon — such as Basel III, which will require banks and financial services firms to hold more

3 Steps to Reducing Spend Through Procurement – BFSI perspective Read More »

Implement Spend Analysis

This is What Happens When you Implement Spend Analysis

For long, we have wondered how to harness spend for analytics that can improve business performance. Now Spend Analysis is the answer with procurement evolving every day. It is because of such technological evolution; procurement could transform its image from being a transaction to more strategic. The transformation not only helped the delivery of value

This is What Happens When you Implement Spend Analysis Read More »