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Digital Readiness: How To Build A Digital Culture...

This guest blog has been written for Market Dojo by Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights. A few years ago, I remember having breakfast with Duncan Jones at a Virginia conference i...more

Market Dojo Podcast – “Procurement Software: Suite Providers...

"Procurement Software: Suite Providers Vs Best of Breed" Market Dojo Co-Founder and Director, Nick Drewe, discusses all things Suite vs Best of Breed with board level procuremen...more

Market Dojo Podcast 2.1 – “How to Procure...

"How to Procure a Dinosaur" Peter Smith hosts our first podcast of 2020, alongside Market Dojo’s Co-Founder Alun Rafique and special guest, Procurement lead at London's world ...more

Supplier Contracting – The Real Value of Managing...

The following guest blog is written by one of the Procurement Industry's top 3 influencers, Dana Small, aka, Ms Category Management. Supplier Contracting - The Real Value of Man...more

Hustles, gigs, and shedding the shackles of spreadsheets

This blog has been written for Market Dojo by Sourcing Solved's  Iain McKenna  following our recent webinar The real obstacle to digital transformation:  Finding an alternative...more

Market Dojo Podcast – 1.4 – Christmas Special...

Christmas Special Peter Smith hosts our Christmas special, alongside Market Dojo's Co-Founder Alun Rafique and Senior Business Development Manager, Pete Glass aka Procurement Pe...more

Knowledge Note: The Real Obstacle to Digital Transformation

Following our latest and ever popular webinar hosted by Jon Hansen "The Real Obstacle to Digital Transformation" webinar, our host Jon Hansen has put together the below Knowledge N...more

What is your organisation’s digital readiness and what...

Do you, as a procurement professional, still use spreadsheets to do your job? In line with our recent webinar on digital transformation and the alternatives to spreadsheets and ...more

Talent not spreadsheets will bridge the gap between...

This blog has been written by Market Dojo's CEO Alun Rafique, ahead of our upcoming webinar The real obstacle to digital transformation:  Finding an alternative to spreadsheets an...more

Like training wheels on a bicycle, it is...

This blog has been written for Market Dojo by Procurement Insights' Jon Hansen, ahead of our upcoming webinar The real obstacle to digital transformation:  Finding an alternative ...more

Market Dojo Podcast – 1.3 – 10 Ways...

10 Ways To Fiddle Your Procurement Savings Acquisitions, Deliveroo, a new procurement book from a familiar author and 10 ways to fiddle your procurement savings… Peter Smith a...more

Knowledge Note: Evolution before Transformation

Following our highly popular and successful "Evolution Before Transformation" webinar, our host Jon Hansen has put together the below Knowledge Note outlining the key findings from...more

Market Dojo Podcast – 1.2 – Global Trade...

Global Trade Wars, Gender Pay Gaps, Brexit and Sex Lairs... Peter Smith and Market Dojo Co-Founders Alun Rafique and Nick Drewe discuss the latest procurement news, draw compari...more

Digitizing Procurement: Not Everyone Takes The Same Road...

The following Blog was written by Andre Le Lerre, guest panellist in the May 21st Market Dojo webinar; Evolution Before Transformation: How Procurement Will Best Leverage Digital O...more

How Market Dojo could help save the world….

  I think we can all agree that Bill Gates is a top bloke. Aside from being one of the most influential people in our lifetime, he’s done what a lot more people in h...more

Going Small And Smart Is The Key To...

The following Blog was written by Jon Hansen, Host for the May 21st Market Dojo webinar; Evolution Before Transformation: How Procurement Will Best Leverage Digital On-Demand To Ac...more

Knowledge Note: Digital Surprise: How Recent Market Dojo...

This guest blog comes from our Beyond the Bolt Webinar host, Jon Hansen. As the Editor and lead writer for the Procurement Insights Blog, Jon Hansen has written nearly 3,000 articl...more

[Guest Blog]: Novo-K – Is it true? Are...

This guest blog has been written by Kavita Cooper, Managing Director for our newly announced procurement consultancy partner, Novo-K. Novo-K provides cost-effective procurement su...more

[Guest Blog]: Coming of age – Angus Craig

Angus Craig FCIPS is an interim procurement consultant who helps organisations improve procurement and supply chain performance. This often involves leading transformation prog...more

What is an SRM?

This guest blog is written by Howard Price. Howard is a Procurement, Supply Chain and Cost Transformation Consulting. To be able to understand the importance of an SRM, I’m goi...more

Beyond The Bolt: How Cloud-Based Solutions Have Transformed...

Sign up to our upcoming webinar here. “Back in 2008 Oracle’s Larry Ellison said that “we have redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.”  Dis...more

Guest Blog: Is a training agreement actually a...

This week's guest blog comes from Procurement Punk, an anonymous industry influencer who shares his thoughts via Twitter. Modern slavery example: A sign of modern slavery, for ex...more

[Guest Blog] The Power is with Business: Reverse...

We are pleased to welcome a guest post by Andrew Lister from Beam Energy Labs, a platform helping businesses assess and procure solar and batteries. You may have missed the...more

Something other than the Football…BREXIT

This edition of our Blog is written by Richard Ainley who currently works at Manchester Airports Group as their e-Commerce and Performance Spend Manager. He has previously held sen...more

Ooh la la, aren’t we De La Rueful!

It’s hard to avoid the political quagmire that is the Home Office decision to source the new UK Passport from French firm Gemalto, ahead of the UK’s De La Rue. There are...more

BYE BYE France

After 8 hours travelling on a boat, I finally put the wheels of my car on British soil. My first reaction was, why did they not drive on the right side of the road like everybody e...more

The Trials and Tribulations of a Software-as-a-Service Company

Market Dojo provides an eSourcing solution based entirely in the cloud. And whilst we boast about all the benefits of being a SaaS company, such as pay per use pricing and delivery...more

Market Dojo Interview with Founding Owners of the...

Our latest blog post introduces the founders of an exciting new venture for procurement news - A Trending in Procurement app. Co-Founder Leslie McBride reached out to us here at...more

The Development of Spend Data Analysis

Eddie McGeachie offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Eddie is the co-founder of Seaforth Analytical Services. They are data analytics specialists providing spend analy...more

Introducing the LAVERGNE PROCUREMENT MATRIX

We recently encountered an article on Linkedin by Rémy de Lavergne, a highly experienced procurement professional with a specialism in Logistics. Rémy had clearly put some though...more

Odesma Presentation – 20th June 2017

From our presentation at Procurement Summit 2015 entitled, "Strategies to maximise your eAuction returns"....more

Tail Spend by Greg Tennyson

This is the second guest article by Greg Tennyson, CPO at VSP Global, discussing the importance of managing your Tail Spend. Pareto This Tail Spend Tail Spend generally foll...more

E-Auctions Software: A Case Study of a Niche...

This is a paper written by Dr Peter James from Bristol Business School at UWE Bristol for the 2012 IPSERA conference. Similar papers can be found at www.ipsera.com....more

CPO’s first 100 days by Erik Van Kampen

Market Dojo continues its search into transforming procurement teams in the CPO’s first 100 days. This time our guest contributor is Erik Van Kampen. Erik is an experienced and ...more

Part 2 – The CPO’s first hundred days…

Market Dojo continues its search into transforming procurement teams in the CPO’s first 100 days. Dr Paul Joesbury has experience as a CPO at a number of organisations including ...more

Part 1 – The CPO’s first hundred days….

Market Dojo continues its search into transforming procurement teams in the CPO’s first 100 days. Dr Paul Joesbury has experience as a CPO at a number of organisations including ...more

Kraljic Matrix for Evaluation of e-Auction Opportunities

Andrey Matveev offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Andrey has pioneered fully-managed eAuctions in Russian retail. Andrey’s expertise comes from both sides of the neg...more

CPO's First 100 Days

Inspired by Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, Market Dojo are investigating what the first 100 days of a successful CPO would look like. Grey Tennyson, Chief Procurement Of...more

CPO’s First 100 Days

Inspired by Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, Market Dojo are investigating what the first 100 days of a successful CPO would look like. Grey Tennyson, Chief Procurement Of...more

Behind the scenes at Market Dojo

Hi, I'm Ed, And this is my Market Dojo experience. Firstly, I had no idea about the company apart from my own research. In my research, I kept on seeing words which were unfamilia...more

The Future of Spend Analysis

Eddie McGeachie offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Eddie is the co-founder of Seaforth Analytical Services. They are data analytics specialists providing spend analy...more

The Development of Spend Data Analysis

Eddie McGeachie offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Eddie is the co-founder of Seaforth Analytical Services. They are data analytics specialists providing spend analy...more

Five minutes with award-winning consultancy Odesma

Before our inaugural Market Dojo Event on Thursday 6th April 2017, we caught up with presenter Nick Ford. Nick is an Executive Director of Odesma and has over 28 years experie...more

[Guest Blog] Lessons learned from my experience using...

Jon Brinsmead has been buying goods and services for clients for over 20 years,  working with the likes of Unilever and Transport for London whilst providing training in commerci...more

Five minutes with Executive Search specialist Iain Mckenna

We caught up with presenter Iain McKenna, before the 2017 Market Dojo Event.  Iain is the Managing Director of Sourcing Solved and presented “The Human Condition: Finding The...more

[Guest Blog] Teaching deal making with Market Dojo

Jon Brinsmead has been buying goods and services for clients for over 20 years including Ahold Delhaize, Unilever and Transport for London. Over the same period of time, Jon has b...more

Simplify, enhance and economise – Legal eProcurement

In a recent article featured in the January 2017 edition of The Oath. Khaled Shivji, Head of Legal at Aggreko explains how he has used Market Dojo to successfully appoint a l...more

Spend Matters – The A-Z of Reverse Auctions

We are delighted to have our recent article on the A-Z of Reverse Auctions published on Spend Management blog, Spend Matters. The article highlights our A-Z complication...more

10 Contract Management Questions That You Need To...

Market Dojo is pleased to welcome a guest post from Noel Green. Noel is the Founder of ContractsWise, the innovative cloud-based contract management and administrative softwar...more

[Guest Blog] Bruno Alvarez – Some thoughts on...

Bruno Alvarez is regarded in Latin America and the Americas as one of the Leading Contracting and Procurement Experts in the region. Bruno’s background comes from the Energy and...more

[Guest Blog] The Importance of Perspective on Consultants...

Today we are pleased to welcome a guest post from Terri Hudson. Terri is the Managing Director of Baker Wanless. They are a UK based procurement consultancy who have been shortli...more

[Guest Blog] How Consultants Provide Value – Part...

Today we are pleased to welcome a guest post from Terri Hudson. Terri is the Managing Director of Baker Wanless. They are a UK based procurement consultancy who have been shortlis...more

[Guest Blog] Five Takeaways from 20 years in...

Bruno Alvarez is regarded in Latin America and the Americas as one of the Leading Contracting and Procurement Experts in the region. Bruno’s background comes from the Energy and ...more

[Guest Blog] How Consultants Provide Value – Part...

Today we are pleased to welcome a guest post from Terri Hudson. Terri is the Managing Director of Baker Wanless. They are a UK based procurement consultancy who have been shortlist...more

[Guest Blog] What does Lean Procurement mean for...

Tony Lockwood is a published author, lifestyle entrepreneur, high-performance business coach and senior consultant who works with Executive teams to orchestrate the development an...more

[Guest Blog] How to find top procurement talent

We are pleased to welcome a guest post by Adam Maidment from Portfolio Procurement, a market-leading procurement recruitment specialist. Discussing the unique challenges to recruit...more

[Guest Blog] eAuction in the cloud is heaven

Peter Schmidt's latest article discusses the generic benefits of SAAS and what eAuctions in the cloud means to businesses. 'Software as a Service', commonly abbreviated to SAAS, ...more

[Guest Blog] One Man’s Experience with eAuctions

Peter Schmidt writes a guest blog for Market Dojo on his past experience with eAuctions. Peter has a long track record in, sales, consultancy and procurement. He specialises in Tel...more

[Radio Interview] Jon Hansen and Market Dojo on...

We recently had the great pleasure of taking part in a radio interview with Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights in one of a series of interviews as a follow up to Market Dojo being ...more

Are Procurement Professionals Stuck in the Stone Age?...

Market Dojo and Odesma partner to combine their intuitive eSourcing softwareand expertise in offering business advisory services to offer clients a winning procurement solution....more

Are Procurement Professionals Stuck in the Stone Age?...

Market Dojo and Odesma partner to combine their intuitive eSourcing software and expertise in offering business advisory services to offer clients a winning procurement solution. T...more

The Trials and Tribulations of a Software-as-a-Service Company

Market Dojo provides an eSourcing solution based entirely in the cloud. And whilst we boast all the benefits of being a Saas company, such as pay per use pricing and delivery, in...more

Market Dojo: The Past, The Present and The...

"What would Market Dojo be like today if it had started 10 years earlier?" That was the question posed by Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights one fine day in April. Having o...more

Dear UK, Please leave. From France

This article was a challenge to write and should be viewed with good humour and in an amicable fashion. As a good French and European citizen, I am obliged to defend our interests ...more

French Trainee – A last blog from the...

Last week we bid a fond farewell to our intern Alex who spent 9 glorious weeks at Market Dojo HQ. Whilst here he worked on translation of the website, wrote content for the blog an...more

Some more generous client feedback

In case you missed it, we recently enhanced our Case Study page. This included a neat filter option to help our visitors zone into the segment of interest, be it Private or Publ...more

Competition works! But only if customers want it...

This is a guest post by Vlado Prosenik from Efekto Pro. Efekto Pro are our consultancy partner in Slovenia.  They help customers make purchases more efficient. You can read the ...more

See what the Doctor says…

We would like to thank Sourcing Innovation for two great blog posts on Market Dojo. The Sourcing Innovation blog was started in June of 2006, is authored and edited by Michael ...more

eSourcing returns

We recently met up with a small french consultancy, Effixens at cafe Lala in Hammersmith. On the menu was some fantastic mediterranean food as well as a healthy dose of eSourci...more

Variables in the Adoption of Auctions in Procurement...

Editor’s Note: When Kelly Barner and Alun Rafique submitted this post on the variables in the adoption of auctions, they hit close to home in terms of an area of procurement abo...more

Market Dojo: A Dragon’s Den View by Jon...

Posted on February 4, 2014 by PI Blogger Procurement Insights Blog Editors note:  We had the great pleasure to be picked as a finalist for the 'Year in the life series' on t...more

Domestic eSourcing – a follow-up to Spend Matters

This article is a follow-up piece by Nick Drewe, co-founder of Market Dojo, who used the Market Dojo eSourcing tool to let a contract with local builders for his own home extension...more

Reverse auction entrepreneurs to bid for expansion with...

By The Bristol Post  |  Posted: February 05, 2014 By Gavin Thompson A NORTH Bristol firm has led the way in online reverse auctions, in which businesses get suppliers to bi...more

Spend Matters – Innovation Dojo – another new...

PETER SMITH - January 16, 2014 12:05 AM http://spendmatters.com/uk/innovation-dojo-another-new-product-market-dojo/ We featured Market Dojo and their new ‘Category Dojo’ ...more

Spend Matters – Category Dojo – a new...

PETER SMITH - January 13, 2014 7:31 AM http://spendmatters.com/uk/category-dojo-new-product-market-dojo/ If all the surveys and predictions are correct, topics such as suppli...more

Working with Local Government Procurement – our guest...

The following article featured as a guest post on the excellent Procurement Insights EU blog.  It outlines some of the challenges we have faced whilst working with local governm...more

An Englishman in Paris and the fourth dimension

We were very proud to be invited to the Salon Solutions event in Paris on the 1st-3rd October by our French partner, Effixens. As the only French speaker on the Market Dojo team, i...more

Regina Maria acquired an eProcurement system from TotalSoft...

Below is a post from one of our partners, TotalSoft, who is the leading ERP provider in Romania with over 1500 customers across 27 countries.  We partnered with them to provide ou...more

A typical day with Market Dojo – by...

Our intern Antoine Boton sums up his experience on his 6 week internship with Market Dojo.  Here is an outline of his typical day's work with us: Before arriving at the Market Doj...more

First impressions of the UK – by our...

For the next few weeks, we are lucky enough be working with two interns from France, Camélia Chiguer and Antoine Boton.  Here are the observations about the cultural differences ...more

Guest Post – Maximising user adoption of e-sourcing...

Today we are very pleased to welcome a guest post from Optimum Procurement.  Jane McAuliffe from Optimum was kind enough to participate in a recent product requirements workshop,...more

Guest post – Successfully Implementing e-Auctions for Legal...

Back in 2012, we received a great deal of interest from customers and prospects considering the use of Market Dojo for sourcing of legal services. Today we are pleased to welcome ...more

A fantastic article about Market Dojo on Buyers...

Buyers Meeting Point has written a great article about our new Samurai release. We were so pleased, here it is in full: ENTER THE SAMURAI: ESOURCING MADE SIMPLE In October 2010...more

Big thanks to University of Gloucestershire Digital Film...

We would like to say a massive thanks to Tea, Liz, Sanni and their lecturer Ben, all from the Digital Film Production course from University of Gloucestershire , for their time a...more

Market Dojo Interview with Buyers Meeting Point, November...

To get us started, give us a little background on Market Dojo and the team. Two of the founding Directors, Alun Rafique and I, worked as cost reduction consultants for a nearly ...more

Best Practice Article

Scaling Procurement SaaS: 25 Years In The Making...

By Alun Rafique, CEO, Market Dojo One of the many advantages of being in the procurement industry as a practitioner, consultant, and ultimately a SaaS provider is the benefit of...more

5 Key Benefits of ESG and Building Sustainable...

Sustainability or going 'green' has been a global priority for quite some time now. A great example is the UK’s goal of being net-zero by 2050. However, it seems as though the mo...more

Tactics to convince your stakeholders to run eAuctions

From experience, some of us know first hand how it can be difficult to change habits. The same applies to business and introducing new ways of doing things, even if it is proven to...more

6 years of supplier onboarding – 6 tips

Nurturing your supplier and vendor relationships is just as important as supporting your client relationships. Like when building a house, with a structured and efficient supplier ...more

What are our top 3 most successful on-demand...

What are our top 3 most successful on-demand auctions? There’s no denying that the Covid-19 pandemic placed huge demands on supply chains around the globe. As procurement teams ...more

Adjusting to the New Normal

As the world begins to emerge from Covid, we wanted to share one way in which Market Dojo can help to adjust to the new normal. How the pandemic has affected supply chains Co...more

How eSourcing Can Save You Time And Money

Whether you're a seasoned procurement professional or a beginner, you’re more than aware of the pressure to save time AND money. You want to reduce the cycle time of the sourcing...more

The Ultimate Guide to Procurement

Procurement is an important activity in the supply chain process. It’s not just about finding the most cost-effective suppliers or seeking positive supplier reviews. In large sup...more

A solution for Boohoo’s Supply Chain issues

If you work in procurement or supply chain, you are probably very familiar with the story of Boohoo and issues with their supply chain concerned with working conditions and payment...more

Welcome to the future of supplier onboarding –...

Supplier onboarding can sometimes feel like a necessary evil, seen as another box ticking exercise by procurement. This can be compounded further when antiquated systems or Excel i...more

Benford’s law

This blog was written by Nic Martin, our Co-Founder and CTO. Nic studied Physics at University and has an ingrained interest in statistics. Recently a colleague told me about Be...more

How can Market Dojo assist with recovery? The...

Apart from the key workers in the world, during the COVID-19 crisis, procurement professionals have been the heroes of businesses helping to keep organisations afloat. Consumers...more

Why ‘Best of Breed’​ tools are the IKEA...

We were recently asked what well-known consumer brand would we use to describe ourselves. After considering our range of services and our values, specifically our focus of deliveri...more

Top tips for running a PPE tender

In the current climate, PPE supply has become a hot topic for everyone, not just procurement. With this in mind, we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight some lessons we’v...more

Market Dojo announced as Spend Matters Provider to...

Market Dojo have been included within the Spend Matters 50 Procurement Providers to Watch for 2020. This list recognizes the fast-rising companies in the procurement and supply cha...more

How has COVID-19 impacted procurement’s approach to eSourcing?

After the initial concern of businesses putting the breaks on spending to evaluate the current COVID-19 crisis, data from our platform suggests that businesses are using Market Doj...more

Multistage RFQ’s and other things you may have...

2019 was a huge year for Market Dojo, as we introduced more new features to our software than ever before. We saw Multistage RFQ’s added to our eSourcing platform, multiple impro...more

Logitech’s “Results-First” Approach to Indirect Spend Automation

This blog has been written for Market Dojo by Procurement Insights’ Jon Hansen, ahead of our upcoming webinar Mapping success: Taking digital transformation from concept to reali...more

Hustles, gigs, and shedding the shackles of spreadsheets

This blog has been written for Market Dojo by Sourcing Solved's  Iain McKenna  following our recent webinar The real obstacle to digital transformation:  Finding an alternative...more

What is your organisation’s digital readiness and what...

Do you, as a procurement professional, still use spreadsheets to do your job? In line with our recent webinar on digital transformation and the alternatives to spreadsheets and ...more

Simple supplier tactics to help you win your...

During our webinar on Wednesday 24th July, we discussed how participants can use simple tactics and strategies to ensure that they increase their effectiveness when taking part in ...more

Should all suppliers be given the same information?

Procurement as a function has evolved over the years, transforming itself from an aspect of strategic purchasing, into a value-adding activity that’s integral to the running of a...more

Is the Procurement Industry utilising one of its...

It's always an interesting concept running a market analysis survey. As a software provider, we need to know how many of our target market are currently using a product similar ...more

Market Dojo Podcast – 1.1 – Market Dojo’s...

Welcome to Market Dojo's first podcast, hosted by Peter Smith. Peter Smith and Market Dojo CoFounder Alun Rafique discuss procurement news, review "A Licence to Play" a new proc...more

Worried about convincing your suppliers to participate in...

What if my suppliers won't participate? And what if my supplier doesn’t want to go to auction? These are a couple of questions that I have been asked on several occasions a...more

Creating an Event Brief

When creating an eSourcing event it is important to include as much information as possible in your brief. Your event brief will be sent to suppliers as part of the invitation emai...more

Going Small And Smart Is The Key To...

The following Blog was written by Jon Hansen, Host for the May 21st Market Dojo webinar; Evolution Before Transformation: How Procurement Will Best Leverage Digital On-Demand To Ac...more

Knowledge Note: Digital Surprise: How Recent Market Dojo...

This guest blog comes from our Beyond the Bolt Webinar host, Jon Hansen. As the Editor and lead writer for the Procurement Insights Blog, Jon Hansen has written nearly 3,000 articl...more

The Ultimate Category Guides to Running Tenders

For our next time saving trick, Market Dojo would like to welcome you to our new Category Hub.  The purpose of the category hub is to provide Category Guides for tenders and offe...more

Using Market Dojo for: Brazilian Auctions

The way Market Dojo has been built means that the tool is incredibly easy to use, it has been said time and time again that the main reason people have committed to using the platf...more

[Guest Blog]: Coming of age – Angus Craig

Angus Craig FCIPS is an interim procurement consultant who helps organisations improve procurement and supply chain performance. This often involves leading transformation prog...more

Beyond The Bolt: How Cloud-Based Solutions Have Transformed...

Sign up to our upcoming webinar here. “Back in 2008 Oracle’s Larry Ellison said that “we have redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.”  Dis...more

A Study into the Barriers of Adopting Reverse...

We have discussed previously how, to the procurement industry, Reverse Auctions are seen in a similar vein to Marmite. Some individuals love them, use them on an almost daily basis...more

So, you don’t want to mandate eSourcing…?

In my last blog on this subject (one of many!) I proposed that mandating eSourcing, even though it is a dirty word in many organisations, would bring about unrivalled benefits in t...more

Market Dojo ♥ GDPR

Yet another article about GDPR I received my first email about GDPR on 17th May 2016. Since then I have sent or received a total of 211 emails on the subject and read a similar nu...more

Market Dojo recognised as the eSourcing value leader...

Spend Matters have released their 2018 SolutionMap helping procurement professionals keep on top of the latest technology developments and trends within Procurement Technology Solu...more

Police in Procurement

I recently found procurement data for England and Wales police force online and thought it would be fun to see what it contained. Market Dojo have been thinking about reporting rec...more

Market Dojo eSourcing event guide

Step by step guide on how to create an eSourcing event in Market Dojo. Includes information on registering, creating an event, questionnaire's and using lots to capture pricing inf...more

Analysing messages sent during an eSourcing event

Introduction Our customers have run thousands of events on Market Dojo. One important benefit of using an eSourcing tool is that it allows you to centralise communication with you...more

How can school’s procure better?

Earlier this year, hundreds of schools across England were forcibly closed due to a teachers strike, in a long-running dispute with the government over “underfunding”. Many ...more

Email – what is it good for?

Since the mid-1990’s, email has been the communication tool of choice for Business to Business interaction. It is estimated that there are over 4.6 billion email accounts worldwi...more

Maximising Your eAuction Strategies

This guide is based upon the many thousands of eAuctions run on our software, we’ve compiled this handy guide to help you create your next eAuction. Discover the different types ...more

Beginners Guide to Reverse Auctions

Discover our Beginners Guide to Reverse Auctions that discusses exactly what you need to know about reverse auctions....more

eSourcing should be mandated

When a salesperson starts to work within a company, it is generally accepted they would use a CRM system. Is it mandated? Perhaps not specifically but it is expected and it is need...more

Market Dojo – Building an ecosystem

Market Dojo’s latest release brings the ability to share data seamlessly with other solutions via what is known as an API. The first integration has been achieved with Per...more

Barriers to Adopting Reverse Auctions

Market Dojo recently conducted a study into the barriers of adopting reverse auctions. This research featured results from a range of different procurement professionals and coveri...more

5 Top Tips to no longer fear Reverse...

This article is to help you overcome what seems to be a very scary concept to organisations - the reverse auction. To many procurement people, or perhaps your stakeholders, the mer...more

Misconception of Categories

There's often a misconception within procurement and eAuctioning that success with using eSourcing solutions relies heavily on the type of categories. Typically, categories such as...more

Learning Excel through Football

Market Dojo have put together a learning spreadsheet to help procurement professionals gain a better understanding of excel. This spreadsheet uses premier league, international and...more

Top tips to forecast your savings

As a procurement team, you're expected to deliver savings. Hence one of your key activities at the beginning of the financial year is to forecast how much you shall achieve. This i...more

Progressing an RFQ to an Auction

After an RFQ has completed, you have the ability to progress to an auction. This tutorial covers how to do this....more

i-Adapt report- A suppliers perspective on e-Auctions

The I-Adapt report. It is an independent assessment into the development of auctions as a purchasing tool. This study ultimately determines the impact of Online Auctions on the buy...more

10 Things You Can Do With Big Data...

Eddie McGeachie offered to write a guest blog for Market Dojo. Eddie is the co-founder of Seaforth Analytical Services. They are data analytics specialists providing spend analys...more

Learn to be frugal by eSourcing like Google!

We recently ran a survey to explore the barriers to eAuctions to truly understand why not all procurement professionals out there with 3 bids on the table instinctively progress to...more

Redefining BIG for Outcome-based Procurement

Kelly Barner, Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point explains the ever-evolving role of procurement, how it has redefined the value of supplier relations and what it means to...more

Analysing EU public spending data

Having recently researched thoroughly into OJEU (Official Journal of the European Community) and TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), I discovered the TED dataset for 2015 spend data. ...more

Why choose a Procurement Consultancy to help your...

Ed Cross, Executive Director of leading procurement consultancy Odesmashares his thoughts on why companies should be choosing procurement consultancies to help their business. ...more

Stop saying auctions are too price focused

'Auctions are too price focused’ is something I hear pretty much every day as part of my role as the outbound marketing executive here at Market Dojo. For me, it’s the equival...more

Why spend prioritisation tools are a new CPOs...

Procurement people like to move around, and it’s not uncommon for a department to get a new CPO every 2-3 years. A new CPO has a large task ahead of them. Usually, their goal is ...more

Santa suffering from a supply chain crisis!

Christmas can be stressful at the best of times, and this year has been somewhat worse than others for Santa Claus, having experienced some major issues in his supply chain. The la...more

5 ways leading CPO’s are looking to embrace...

Deloitte recently published their Global CPO Survey, where over 300 leading procurement professionals from 33 countries were questioned on key issues. The full report can be found...more

“We’ve always done it this way”

One obstacle that many businesses face is changing the mindset of those that have a “We’ve always done it this way” (It even has an acronym! WHADITW) mentality. As an eSourc...more

Why Are School's Bad At Procurement?

Recently hundreds of schools across England were forcibly closed due to a teachers strike on Tuesday, in a long-running dispute with the government over “underfunding”. Many sc...more

Are Japanese auctions a lazy mans tool and...

A Japanese Reverse Auction is an auction type that requires all suppliers to bid at a continuously decreasing price (the value of which is set by the buyer/host). The bidders may c...more

How we do Customer Support…

We love our customers. We want to make sure they are happy with the service we provide to them. This means customer support is VERY important to us. So, how do we do it? Track ever...more

Prepare to Pitch for New Business

We have been fortunate enough to be involved with a webinar produced by the Star Commercial Academy. As we have been in procurement, sales, and selling procurement solutions, w...more

6 Important Life Lessons You Need to Learn

Alun, one of the founders of Market Dojo's intuitive eSourcing platform, shares his experience of his recent stint as a mentor and some of the knowledge and lessons he has learnt t...more

A Portal to Increase Your Supplier Base

Market Dojo is very excited to release the latest update to its new supplier on-boarding tool - SIM Dojo. This feature means that it’s now possible to open up your portal to a wi...more

The 3 Stages of Face-to-Face Negotiation

In many cases where a reverse auction can be used, we recommend that you (the buyer) reserve what is known as buyer's choice. This means that, although the outcome of the auction i...more

How to Save €1500 in 37 Minutes on...

This is a guest post by Vlado Prosenik from Efekto Pro. Efekto Pro are our consultancy partner in Slovenia.  They help customers make purchases more efficiently. A few months ...more

How NOT to do Graphic Design

In preparation for this year’s events and tradeshows (the first being eWorld on 2nd March. Delegates can register here), the Market Dojo team got involved in a spot of design to ...more

Why You Shouldn’t Use Reverse Auctions

Reverse auctions are a bit like Marmite, some people love them, boasting the success they’ve seen to friends and colleagues, utilising them when and where they can. Some people h...more

Modern Slavery Act 2015 – implications for procurement...

This article is a short analysis of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. For further information, I have included some useful links at the bottom of the post. Background Last year, the...more

The eSourcing eVolution Part II – The Present

This is part two (read part one here) of a three piece blog providing an in-depth analysis of the evolution of eSourcing around the question: "What would Market Dojo be like today...more

The eSourcing eVolution Part III – The Future

This is the final part (read part 2 here) of a three piece blog providing an in-depth analysis of the evolution of eSourcing around the question: "What would Market Dojo be like t...more

Does Cost Plus Encourage Lazy Procurement?

Cost plus: (definition, adjective) “relating to or denoting a method of pricing a service or product in which a fixed profit factor is added to the costs.” You could a...more

Are eAuctions’ benefits also their Achilles heel?

“An Achilles heel is a deadly weakness in spite of overall strength, which can actually or potentially lead to downfall.” eAuctions are a great negotiation tool when use...more

Bringing the ‘e’ into ‘eSourcing’

You are an experienced procurement professional. You have been completing tenders via phone and email since 2001. When you need a quote, you simply pick up the phone, call your ...more

Do’s and Don’ts of eTendering

We all owe it to the participants for an Online Negotiation Event to be run in a fair, open and expedient fashion. To help you out, the Market Dojo team have created a guide wh...more

‘What’s the first thing that comes into your...

It is obvious that eSourcing adoption has increased in larger organisations as they implement software to bring eSourcing in-house or use consultants to conduct eTenders on the...more

The eSourcing eVolution: Part I – The Past

This is part one of a three piece blog providing an in-depth analysis of the evolution of eSourcing around the question: "What would Market Dojo be like today if it had started 10...more

Does Lord Sugar need a basic procurement course?

'Negotiation is the DNA of business' was Alan Sugar's opening line in the boardroom following the negotiation task on 10th series of the Apprentice. Always an interesting episod...more

How to untangle tied bids

What would you do if two bids tied for first place in your tender process? Put a plan in place to avoid tying yourself up in knots, says Nick Drewe, co-founder of Market Dojo.  I...more

Which is better? SaaS or On-premises software

When we started working on Market Dojo, we decided early on that we would use the SaaS model. This was an obvious choice for us, and has helped us and our customers throughout our ...more

Be the eSourcing hero

Targets. Based on savings, number of eSourcing events, other contract KPIs? What do you do? In procurement you quite literally have a myriad of different ways you can be assessed. ...more

Market Dojo and the Heartbleed vulnerability

On April 7th 2014, security researchers discovered a serious vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) in OpenSSL, a very popular cryptographic library used by many websites. This library ensu...more

Should suppliers still fear eAuctions?

Following a recent LinkedIn question ("Someone explain to me how a Reverse Auction is fair and equitable to the supplier ...") we had to pause for thought.  Admittedly in th...more

Can E-Sourcing Break the Bonds of E-mail?

These are the introductory paragraphs of a guest post by Alun Rafique of Market Dojo.  The full article features ThomasNet News who is one of the leading supplier discovery an...more

Rightsourcing: how to benefit from offshoring IT

This is the opening gambit of a guest publication by Nick Drewe of Market Dojo on the highly respected Information Age magazine, whose objective is to help their readers become mor...more

Why Buyers should embrace Japanese Auctions

We have the pleasure of a guest post from one of our clients, Terri Hudson, who represents Baker Wanless and eQuiddity.  She is has many years experience of running auctions an...more

Home advantage: our article posted on Supply Management

Supply Management recently posted an article by Nick Drewe of Market Dojo outlining some top 10 tips for running an eSourcing event, based on his experience of using an eSourcing t...more

Strategic procurement and departmental organisation

Thinking of becoming more strategic? How should you adapt your organisational structure? Some time ago one of our client's was asking the same questions. We sat down and worked thr...more

Sourcing my extension (Part 3) – Bid Analysis

This is part 3 of Nick Drewe’s foray into a domestic eSourcing exercise for his house extension. Nick has now held all the site visits and chased in the quotes.  Time for a spot...more

Sourcing my extension (part 2) – Go Live!

This is part 2 of Nick Drewe’s foray into a domestic eSourcing exercise for his house extension. Nick’s tender has now gone live!  You can catch up on part 1 here. So last...more

Sourcing my extension! (part 1)

This is a multi-part article from Market Dojo co-founder, Nick Drewe, who is currently planning a house extension and is embarking on the sourcing phase of the project.  We’ll l...more

Are Japanese auctions a ‘Bad Thing’?

A Japanese auction is a reverse auction where the price drops incrementally over time and the participant must to decide whether to accept or decline each price level.  If the...more

Which reverse auction type should I use?

bassetts liquorice allsorts by jonoTakesPictures Attribution-Non Commercial License Great! You have decided that you are going to save time and money by running a reverse aucti...more

Into the Sandpit – head first…

Photo courtesey of tawalker The one feature of Market Dojo that gets me most excited is the Sandpit area, where we invite you to come and experiment with Market Dojo. Everyone l...more

Market Dojo – the e-route to cost-cutting

Here is our latest press release, announcing our Samurai release and some of the work we have been doing with Shropshire Council... Market Dojo helps organisations to save money...more

The new breed of software providers – Bringing...

Expediting probably took up half of my time whilst acting as a buyer at a large tier one aerospace provider. Three bids and a buy took up the rest. Was I concerned? Unfortunately n...more

Commoditisation of e-Sourcing Software

Spend Matters welcomes a guest post Market Dojo, a Bristol-based e-Sourcing solution start-up. As technology advances, the most sophisticated products of the past become nothing...more

Would we participate in a reverse auction?

Reverse auctions and even e-sourcing software has become a commodity product.  There are numerous players in this market offering broadly the same functionality.  Sure, some ha...more

Why we are so grateful for the ‘cloud’

Last month we surpassed the milestone of our first year in business.  Understandably we were delighted, as we read previously that up to four-fifths of start-ups fail in their fi...more

Do e-Auctions reduce the quality of supply?

Last weekend I attended a fantastic Indian wedding at Addington Palace, where many years ago Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn.  I certainly hope the bride for this wedding manages ...more

Can you use bonuses in procurement to increase...

e-Auctions are a great tool to save money quickly and efficiently if used correctly. However, there always seems to be a barrier to increasing their uptake with many procurement de...more

Things to consider when creating an e-Cademy

For each purchasing department there are many benefits in creating a centre for best practice which centralises all the company methodology for procurement. As Market Dojo works in...more

Old versus new: why work with a growth-stage...

As a bootstrapped company trying to make our forays into a mature market, there is one major trait that we have that our competitors can never encroach and that is that we are a gr...more

Category Help

Our Top 5 Categories for Sourcing Events: Where...

Overview Author: Lewis Barnard – Head of Business Development, Market Dojo | Read time: 6 minutes Whether you are sourcing stainless steel bolts, packing materials, sustainab...more

Creating an Event Brief

When creating an eSourcing event it is important to include as much information as possible in your brief. Your event brief will be sent to suppliers as part of the invitation emai...more

All things silly and wonderful – proof you...

My name is Jon Pole award winning reverse auctioneer at eSourcing company Market Dojo. In this brief blog I wanted to outline some of the things that have been sourced through our ...more

Jargon

This guide provides the explanation of the various terminologies that you may come across during your time with Market Dojo or any other online negotiation software, for example "H...more

How To Pick Your Category

This guide is written to help you right from the beginning when all you may have in front of you is 12 months worth of data and the objective to find the market prices on the vario...more

Category Evaluation Questionnaire

To be used in conjunction with the above document, this is the matrix of questions that any organisation should be interrogating each spend category with in order to prioritise eac...more

Category Examples

For certain categories there is a tried and tested "best practice" approach to maximising the returns. This guide highlights some of the more common categories that are negotiated ...more

Learning materials

Any sized tender can potentially benefit from Reverse...

Overview Author: Alun Rafique - CEO & Co-founder, Market Dojo | Read time: Part 1 - 3 minutes / Part 2 - 10 minutes This article, written in two parts, looks at whether...more

To Be(Spoke) Or Not To Be(Spoke): What Is...

By Alun Rafique, CEO, Market Dojo In my last article, I promised to “delve deeper into how a true SaaS model will transform and scale your procurement practice.” However,...more

Scaling Procurement SaaS: 25 Years In The Making...

By Alun Rafique, CEO, Market Dojo One of the many advantages of being in the procurement industry as a practitioner, consultant, and ultimately a SaaS provider is the benefit of...more

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance – what our...

  ESG - Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) is a topic that’s fast becoming an essential part of business practices. Building pressures from not only cu...more

Sourcing Dojo Flow Chart – Auction Type

Download our Sourcing Dojo Auction Type Flow Chart by logging in and pressing the .pdf button below....more

Sourcing Dojo Flow Chart – Lot Type

Download our Sourcing Dojo Lot Type Flow Chart by logging in and pressing the .pdf button below....more

Sourcing Dojo Participant User Guide

Download our Sourcing Dojo Participant User Guide by pressing the .pdf button below....more

Sourcing Dojo Reverse eAuction Participant User Guide

Download our Sourcing Dojo Reverse eAuction Participant User Guide by pressing the .pdf button below....more

Sourcing Dojo RFQs Participants Guide – Advanced Lots

Download our Sourcing Dojo Sourcing Dojo RFQs Participants Guide for Advanced Lots by pressing the .pdf button below....more

Sourcing Dojo RFQs Participants Guide – Simple Lots

Download our Sourcing Dojo Sourcing Dojo RFQs Participants Guide for Simple Lots by pressing the .pdf button below....more

Tactics to convince your stakeholders to run eAuctions

From experience, some of us know first hand how it can be difficult to change habits. The same applies to business and introducing new ways of doing things, even if it is proven to...more

Guide: SIM Dojo Flow Chart for Participants

A flow chart showing the process of SIM Dojo for Participants  ...more

Guide: SIM Dojo Process Guide for Hosts

A guide on how to create and manage your SIM Dojo. This guide will cover the steps involved in setting up and running an onboarding event in SIM Dojo  ...more

Guide: SIM Dojo flow chart for Hosts

A Flow Chart of SIM Dojo for Hosts.  ...more

Guide: Market Dojo Participant Flow Chart

A Flow Chart of Market Dojo for Participants. Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier eng...more

Guide: FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions for Hosts. Market Dojo offers an array of capabilities, to help procurement professionals get the most out of their sourcing and supplier engagement ...more

Guide: Participant Process Guide

A guide for participants to help with Sourcing Dojo events.  ...more

Guide: A Sourcing Dojo Process Flow

A process flow to show you the steps needed within a Sourcing Dojo event.  ...more

Guide: Intelligent Notifications

An overview of the notifications Market Dojo sends to your participants during an event. Market Dojo will send Intelligent Notifications to your suppliers 12-36 hours before ke...more

Advanced Lots RFQ Performance

Over the last eighteen months, a specialist group within the Development Team at Market Dojo have been hard at work on optimising and updating our primary Sourcing offering. One...more

Guide: SIM Dojo Supplier Statuses Guide

Suppliers in SIM Dojo are assigned a number of statuses in order to make it clear to the Host where they are in the process. There are three important types of status ...more

Supercharge your eSourcing performance with help from Market...

Those of you in the profession may well have been exposed to the announcement of a fantastic new book on eAuctions, authored by Jacob Gorm Larsen called “A Practical Guide to e-A...more

Guide: How to Configure your Contracts Settings

Before you get started using your Contract Dojo account, it’s important that you’ve considered what information you would like to store so that you can get this set up in your...more

Welcome to The Market Dojo Community!

Market Dojo is pleased to announce the launch of our new Market Dojo Community.  This community site comes following a number of enquiries from some of the tool’s top users, ...more

Guide: How to set up your SRM System

This guide is designed to help Superhosts get their SRM account fully set up before making it available to their internal users. SRM Dojo is a tool that manages not only your su...more

How eSourcing Can Save You Time And Money

Whether you're a seasoned procurement professional or a beginner, you’re more than aware of the pressure to save time AND money. You want to reduce the cycle time of the sourcing...more

Welcome to the future of supplier onboarding –...

Supplier onboarding can sometimes feel like a necessary evil, seen as another box ticking exercise by procurement. This can be compounded further when antiquated systems or Excel i...more

Benford’s law

This blog was written by Nic Martin, our Co-Founder and CTO. Nic studied Physics at University and has an ingrained interest in statistics. Recently a colleague told me about Be...more

My top tips for when your both working...

With the world seemingly trapped at home, being guilty or disturbed are the two states that I have often found myself lately in. Both my wife and I are working at home, attempting ...more

How Market Dojo can assist with recovery. The...

Procurement professionals do and will continue to play a pivotal role in ensuring that many businesses survive the Covid-19 crisis. Whilst many companies have entered a hibernat...more

Procurement technology – there are some luxuries you...

If there is one positive thing that procurement professionals can draw from the covid 19 pandemic, it is that procurement has been thrust into the spotlight like never before. I ha...more

Five benefits of eSourcing for distributed teams

Distributed teams A distributed team is a team that works together from different geographical locations. People have done this, pretty much forever. They have always relied on ...more

Top tips for running a PPE tender

In the current climate, PPE supply has become a hot topic for everyone, not just procurement. With this in mind, we wanted to take this opportunity to highlight some lessons we’v...more

Market Dojo’s tips for procurement during Covid-19

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the importance of having an effective procurement strategy has never been greater, with sales forecasts falling off a cliff in many circumstanc...more

Multistage RFQ’s and other things you may have...

2019 was a huge year for Market Dojo, as we introduced more new features to our software than ever before. We saw Multistage RFQ’s added to our eSourcing platform, multiple impro...more

Market Dojo Product Brochure

We love what we do. We care about procurement and helping customers achieve results quickly. We have felt that for too long procurement professionals have had to deal with complex ...more

Remarkable Dojo

I recently watched a TED talk by author and former dot com business executive, Seth Godin. He was explaining how some ideas and products spread at a much quicker rate than others, ...more

Our Growth

The following blog has been written by Market Dojo's Customer Support Specialist, Chris Barrett. Chris reflects on the past 9 months that he has been with the business and gives a ...more

Procurement transformation, are you serious?

With continuous change at the forefront of many companies, this question bodes the route of many concerns, options and opportunities. Procurement transformation is regularly di...more

New release – May 2019

As we enter June and find ourselves firmly within the British Summer period, our MD Development team would love to report that they have been working hard, creating a plan to bring...more

A quick guide to running your first event

  So you’ve done the difficult bit – you’ve agreed the requirement with your stakeholders, you’ve added your questionnaire(s) and/or lots into the system and you’...more

Creating an Event Brief

When creating an eSourcing event it is important to include as much information as possible in your brief. Your event brief will be sent to suppliers as part of the invitation emai...more

What makes great customer support?

Here at Market Dojo we pride ourselves on the support we give to each one of our customers. We value every customer we have and want them to feel important to us. We always look to...more

[Guest Blog]: Novo-K – Is it true? Are...

This guest blog has been written by Kavita Cooper, Managing Director for our newly announced procurement consultancy partner, Novo-K. Novo-K provides cost-effective procurement su...more

Using Systems Failures To Improve Our Service

In this post, one of our DevOps specialists explains a recent incident which occurred on our production systems, and how we used it to improve our service. How do we encounter s...more

Buying Habits: Why We Shouldn’t Boycott Palm Oil…

The Story Towards the end of last year, there was widespread uproar around the banning of Iceland’s tear-jerking advert which featured the cute ‘Rang-Tan’ cartoon character ...more

MEET OUR EXPERT GUEST PANELLIST – Tim Cummins...

MEET OUR EXPERT GUEST PANELLIST With the 8th February "Beyond The Bolt" Webinar, we are seeking to do more than provide you with timely information on how the digital age will...more

MEET OUR EXPERT GUEST PANELLIST – Sheena Donaldson...

MEET OUR EXPERT GUEST PANELLIST With the 8th February "Beyond The Bolt" Webinar, we are seeking to do more than provide you with timely information on how the digital age will...more

Ferry Firm Seaborne – Haven’t got a crew!

  On Saturday the 29th December, news broke out in the UK that the government had awarded more than £102.9 million worth of contracts in case of a ‘No-deal’ Brexit to ...more

What is an SRM?

This guest blog is written by Howard Price. Howard is a Procurement, Supply Chain and Cost Transformation Consulting. To be able to understand the importance of an SRM, I’m goi...more

Beyond The Bolt: How Cloud-Based Solutions Have Transformed...

Sign up to our upcoming webinar here. “Back in 2008 Oracle’s Larry Ellison said that “we have redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.”  Dis...more

Staging Success: Achieving Supply Chain Success In The...

Sign up to our upcoming webinar here. Jon Hansen, editor for the Procurement Insights blog has written the following article alongside Market Dojo. Jon has written nearly 3...more

Opportunity Analysis, Supplier Onboarding and Tottenham Hotspur’s Football...

Opportunity Analysis, Supplier Onboarding and how this relates to the Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium Saga… Daniel Levy is renowned for being one of the shrewdest Chairmen ...more

Is the Coca-Cola Company’s £3.9bn acquisition of Whitbread’s...

Since the purchase of Costa by Whitbread in 1995 for just £19m, Costa had just 39 outlets and has since grown to be the UK’s largest coffee chain with 2,400 UK Coffee Shops, 1,4...more

You don’t have Big Data…

...And you don't need AI At Market Dojo, we’ve seen around 25,000 auctions. We’ve seen 7000 RFQs, and received nearly 50,000 questionnaire answers, with around £10B total sou...more

What can the England football team learn from...

With the excitement of the World Cup building, I wanted to give the England football boys some advice to help them along their way in Russia. So what can England learn from proc...more

What do Procurement and Love Island have in...

When I was thinking of a subject to write about for my latest blog article, I thought it would be a great opportunity to write about something on topic and which encompassed two of...more

How can eSourcing learn from social media ?

For years social medias has continued to develop. From the creation of Facebook over 12 years ago, allowing individuals to represent themselves on a single page. The evolution of T...more

I-Source – Adoption of e-Sourcing tools

The I-SOURCE report. This is a summary of academic research into the adoption of e-Sourcing tools / techniques within the UK procurement community....more

The Leaky Bucket of Business

If you ask most honest companies they will probably tell you that organisations value revenue growth and sales departments more than savings and the procurement/purchasing. Procure...more

3 ways eSourcing could benefit the Olympics

The Olympics, that time once every four years you become heavily emotionally invested in sports that you forgot had existed, or do not understand the rules, or in our office, embro...more

Stick or twist? The EU gamble

With the EU referendum taking place tonight, should procurement professionals expect a regulation reshuffle? There are arguments both for and against Brexit, but will there be a...more

What Procurement can Learn from Sport

Whilst putting together our article ‘Are Procurement Professionals stuck in the Stone Age?’, which looks at B2B technology in comparison with B2C, myself and Ed got on to the t...more

What Star Wars Taught Procurement

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Star Wars was born. And with the exciting news that Star Wars Episode 9 will feature the use unseen footage of the late, great Ca...more

The cross functional nature of marketing

A traditional view on marketing was to simply split it by indirect and direct marketing.  Indirect is where you are not going direct to a client and direct is where you are. Both ...more

Top 3 Tips on Creating Compelling Case Studies

Writing a case study is easy. Writing a case study that is engaging, compelling and entices the reader to do more is another matter altogether. Companies structure their case...more

Auctioning the elderly – what is the real...

CC Image courtesy of Kevin Dooley The Daily Mail recently published an article about how elderly people had been auctioned off to care homes on the internet. Of course, the ...more

Technology in the year 2000!

We thought it would be interesting to look back at some of the leading tech at the turn of the millennium, things that we've all no doubt used in our past daily lives. We've han...more

Does Lord Sugar need a basic procurement course?

'Negotiation is the DNA of business' was Alan Sugar's opening line in the boardroom following the negotiation task on 10th series of the Apprentice. Always an interesting episod...more

The broom cupboard entrepreneurs

Here is a article from the Insider, on Entrepreneurship in the South West. Across the South West, bright young things, and some not so young but still bright, are beavering awa...more

What is ‘market price’ and how do I...

I realised recently that this is a term we brandish about quite frequently at various meetings and conversations we have.   Occasionally we get nods of appreciation for the term,...more

What are the top things to do when...

I recieved a question on LinkedIn recently.  Specifically it was: "What are the top things to do when starting a new PPC campaign or optimizing an existing one?". Not really be...more

Warren Services save Administrative overhead using Quick Quotes

With Quick Quotes, it's difficult to find reasons not to use it. My team think its great. We were worried everyone would say you send too much stuff but everyone's feedback has been “we love it”.

William Bridgman Managing Director at Warren Services

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