Why does EU cloud and AI sovereignty matter to procurement? EU cloud and AI sovereignty could change how organisations assess suppliers, especially those handling sensitive data o...more
Guía completa de los sistemas modernos de eSourcing Resumen El software de eSourcing permite a las organizaciones gestionar digitalmente la búsqueda y selección de proveedores...more
La guía definitiva sobre los sistemas modernos de eSourcing Resumen El software de eSourcing permite a las organizaciones gestionar de forma digital la búsqueda y selección de...more
eSourcing Software: The Complete Guide to Modern eSourcing Systems Summary eSourcing software enables organisations to manage supplier sourcing digitally through a structured eSo...more
Market interest in eSourcing software is on the rise. Procurement software is seeing a market growth of 10% per year. Millions of businesses now use the technology to support their...more
Mordor Intelligence reports the global procurement software market size reached USD 9.82 billion in 2025 and is forecast to attain USD 15.75 billion by 2030, advancing at a 9.92% C...more
Strong and successful procurement strategies need to include an element of continuous improvement. We, as procurement professionals, are always looking for ways to add value, cut c...more
We live in an era where modern technology has found a home in every sector and has ultimately changed the way today’s businesses operate. For some, the introduction of new system...more
Learn everything you need to know about reverse auctions. On this resource page, we cover What a reverse auction is The different types of reverse auctions How reve...more
Learn the basics of eAuctions with Market Dojo’s learning resource. We’ll cover What an eAuction is The types of eAuctions available The benefits of eAuctions. ...more
You’ve heard about eSourcing, but how do eSourcing tools support your sourcing objectives? Our resource page on eSourcing tools will cover: What are eSourcing tools? Who ...more
Fundamental to the success of a strong eSourcing event is identifying which type of eSourcing strategy is going to be more appropriate for your objectives. An eSourcing softwa...more
We believe that procurement teams should leave behind the acronyms and speak the language of the entire business. However, here are key sourcing terms that are useful to ...more
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
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
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
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
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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
A flow chart showing the process of SIM Dojo for Participants ...more
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
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
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
A process flow to show you the steps needed within a Sourcing Dojo event. ...more
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
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
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
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
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
Here's where and how to find out all the latest updates and information from Market Dojo. New eAuction Community The Market Dojo Community has just got better with a new eA...more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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 how this relates to the Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium Saga… Daniel Levy is renowned for being one of the shrewdest Chairmen ...more
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
I managed to generate a 48% saving in 2 hours so was very happy with the result! I would definitely recommend these guys. I honestly don't have a bad word to say about them. Excellent service, excellent software and a fantastic experience.
Tara Hunt Category Manager, Arqiva
The company and people are intuitive, young and enthusiastic in nature. Specsavers will be looking to use Market Dojo as a ‘business as usual’ tool and regard it as an integral part of their negotiation toolkit.
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