Making your indirect expenditure a source of innovation and opportunity is an important step for any organisation. This whitepaper, in partnership with Mercateo, explores the gains to be won on indirect expenditure, beyond cost savings, and how you can go about claiming them.

Regardless of the challenge faced by your business, experts agree that joint working, together with a more coherent and strategic approach to risk and compliance management, will benefit any business. This whitepaper, produced in partnership with Avetta, highlights the problems in the way many businesses go about evaluating potential suppliers, the procurement challenges and how strength in teamwork should be the ultimate goal. 

Are you keen to transform your processes for stronger business performance? This whitepaper, produced in partnership with Celonis, aims to explain how you can make process improvements, and showcases the success of two international telecoms giants, Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, who are already reaping the benefits.

This CIPS Download whitepaper, produced in partnership with Dun & Bradstreet, explores some of the dangers of poorly managed due diligence and the advantages of a more strategic, automated approach.

Companies that want to raise sales, reduce costs and free up working capital should invest time, money and resources in demand sensing. Read this CIPS Download report, produced in partnership with GEP, to find out more

This CIPS Download report, produced in partnership with AirPlus, explores the benefits of taking a more strategic approach to business travel spend and explains how simple it is to do

WNS partnered with CIPS to poll 300 European and global firms across a broad range of company sizes and industries to gain insights into the mindset of the best performing procurement organisations.  

The plan was to examine the relationship between value and alignment and to use that to develop a new, more dynamic best-in-class benchmark for the industry. Read this expert report to discover the results.

Read this CIPS Download report, produced in partnership with Determine as we discuss why in a volatile, technologically-driven marketplace, making sure you are playing by the rules is critical if companies are to avoid hefty fines, reputational damage and the erosion of trust

In a volatile global economy, due diligence is not a ‘nice to have’, it is a critical skill if companies are to mitigate risk. Read this CIPS Download report, produced in partnership with Refinitiv, to discover why what you don't know can hurt you

Read this CIPS Download report, produced in partnership with riskmethods, for a strategic guide on detecting suppliers that are at risk.

Read this CIPS Download report, produced in partnership with Clarity, for advice and guidance on the questions you should be asking when purchasing business travel

Read this CIPS Download report, produced in partnership with Crossword Cybersecurity, as we explore the risks and solutions of managing third-party risk

The rise of new technologies – and the decline of old business models – gives procurement the opportunity to reinvent itself. Read this CIPS Download report, in partnership with Jaggaer, as we ask the critical question: will that opportunity be taken?

Read this CIPS Download report, produced in partnership with GEP, as we explore the question: is there still a role for ERP systems in today's volatile marketplace?

Read this report, in partnership with GEP, for five key steps CPOs can take to reinvent their function and ensure procurement – and they – have a viable future. 

This CIPS Download report, in partnership with Expense Reduction Analysts (ERA), explores some of the inconvenient truths procurement and supply chain leaders must first confront if they're to avoid being left behind in the digital transformation game

With the fight against corruption an urgent priority for governments and regulators, research by EcoVadis suggests that many companies do not have the systems and procedures in place to protect their bottom line or their reputation.

Read this whitepaper for key insight from EcoVadis’s first anti-corruption report, based on assessments of more than 20,000 businesses across 100 countries and 150 industries.

Connecting supply chain efficiency and growth

Today’s business leaders expect a lot from their supply chains – efficiency, growth, operational improvements, innovative ideas and disciplined cost management. Unfortunately, most strategies focus only on improving supply chain efficiency.

Read this paper from Kinaxis to learn more about the importance of a new approach that delivers on all fronts – the bimodal supply chain.