Author: Kodiak Rating
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Best-of-Breed isn’t the end of End-to-End in Procurement Technology
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Procurement’s Most Valuable Players
Look to your left, and now your right, and maybe even in the mirror. You can likely spot the MVPs in your procurement organization.
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A New Age of Negotiation: What’s in it for We?
It’s a natural emotion to desire a favorable outcome within negotiations. But, there are two sides to every negotiation table. This means that your feeling of ‘winning’ a negotiation shouldn’t come at the expense of another’s ‘loss’.
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Procurement: Drowning in Data, starved for Intelligence.
Global Trade has grown to a value of 25.3 Trillion USD, reported in 2018 (wto.org 2019). At the same time, the global availability of information & data has grown at 4x the speed of global trade (hbr.org 2019).
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ProcureTech: The Fast-Growing Software Category no one is talking about.
The ProcureTech domain offers various solutions for purchasing automation, maintenance of supplier data, risk management, supply chain visibility, spend analysis, supply management, and many other benefits, which have become increasingly important in today’s business landscape, and could subsequently support an expansion of the market during the coming years.
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Do you know your best Supplier?
Who is your best supplier? If you don’t know, chances are you need a new framework for supplier performance evaluation.
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COVID19: Is This the Death of Global Supply Chains?
Will COVID19 create a Death of Global Supply Chains and a rebirth of Local Supply Chains? Or, have we just begun ‘Going Global’?
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What if your Supplier had a Yelp Review?
What if supplier evaluations were as simple as looking up a restaurant on Yelp? This is why we rate!
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Procurement Teams want Pretty Simple Solutions.
Procurement practitioners are challenging ProcureTech vendors to solve complex problems with easy-to-use, easy-on-the-eye, solutions.
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Business Continuity Plan Activated due to Covid-19
The current status is that all Kodiak Rating personnel are urged to work remotely, and none of our current employees have been affected by the Covid-19 virus.
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An open letter to the Coronavirus
All that media coverage you’ve been so proud of… That’s the exact same coverage that’s going to be your downfall. The team at Kodiak Rating – alongside partners like Meltwater/Fairhair.ai – are committed to ensuring a future filled with identifying & managing supply chain risks, before they become an issue.
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How to Buy a ProcureTech solution, and actually use it!
As digitalization continues in various business disciplines, organizations are on a conveyer belt of change, alongside a smorgasbord of new technology & solutions to try and digest.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Digital Procurement
To help those survivalists out there who might feel a bit lost at the moment, Kodiak Rating has prepared a list of a few things you can’t leave the house without, or without knowing, before braving the journey into the galaxy of digital transformation.
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AI + Data = Supply Chain Risk Management
Procurement teams are combating complexity in multiple dimensions, one of which is a digital complexity; figuring out how in the world they’re going to leverage data, digital platforms, and emerging technologies to become more intelligent – more data-driven – in their strategies and operations.
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Malin Schmidt joins speakers at SFKs World Quality Day 2019
Kodiak Rating’s is proud to announce that our CEO & Founder, Malin Schmidt, has been selected to speak at SFK’s (Svenska Förbundet för Kvalitet) World Quality Day 2019 in Malmö, Sweden.
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9 Big Takeaways from one Digital Procurement Event.
About a month’s time has passed since Kodiak Rating had the opportunity to attend DPW 2019 as one of the 20 digital procurement growth ventures selected to participate in the RiSE program. These are our 9 Big Takeaways!
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Procurement is suffering from Paralysis by Analysis.
Digitalization in procurement has taken a lot longer than in other industries. But, why? What is it about procurement organizations that makes them so reluctant to change? Sometimes, waiting for the perfect solution, or the next best thing can leave you lightyears behind…
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Suppliers are friends, not food!
Whoever said that business needs to be a carnivorous affair? We don’t need to be chewing up our suppliers and spitting them out like fishbones!
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Kodiak Rating joining Sourcing Outlook 2019
Come find Kodiak Rating at EBG Network’s Sourcing Outlook 2019 on October 10th, 2019. The who’s who of Procurement and Sourcing will meet in the fall of 2019 to talk disruption, technology, strategy and operations. There’s a little something for everyone at Sourcing Outlook 2019.
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Kodiak Rating selected as one of 20 innovative startups to join Digital Procurement World 2019.
Kodiak Rating is humbled and excited to announce that our team will be attending DPW 2019 in Amsterdam after being hand-picked as one of 20 innovative growth-stage startups to participate in the RiSE accelerator.
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Kodiak Rating is heading to SaaStr Annual 2019!
Late January and February brings a chilling cold over the Nordics, but Kodiak Rating is heading to California to thaw out our bones and sharpen our expertise.
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3 Realistic New Year’s Resolutions for your Procurement Organization.
I’m one and a half weeks deep into 2019 and I ate half a bag of potato chips last night as I simultaneously began to lose interest in ‘book #1’ of my 2019 reading list.
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Beyond Tier 1: Impacting Supply Chain Sustainability at the source
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The Faces of Kodiak Rating – Introducing a Customer Success Champion
Sometimes we forget that organizations require the harmonization of a lot of moving parts, and it’s seldom that the people that fill those roles receive the individualized recognition that is deserved for their work within a company.
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Come find Kodiak Rating at Sourcing Outlook 2018!
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Kodiak Rating joins the festivities at 600 Minutes Procurement.
600 Minutes Procurement, a true meeting of the minds in Swedish Procurement, is hosted by Management Events at Quality Friends Hotel on September 25, 2018.
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6 Lessons every Procurement Team can learn from IKEA’s IWAY
IWAY, the ‘Ikea way of purchasing’, Ikea’s code of conduct (CoC) for suppliers was introduced to ensure that the drastic changes the organization was experiencing wouldn’t jeopardize key supplier relationships.