Kodiak Community Blog

Supplier Diversity: one small step for Procurement, one giant leap for the world.
March 23, 2021Procurement needs to be the champion of change if the adoption of supplier diversity will ever surpass the status quo. If you are committed to diversi...

7 common Signs of excellent Procurement Teams
March 3, 2021Procurement is a function that has long been at cross-roads; dare to transform within people, process & technology, or keep doing what has always work...


Procurement’s Most Valuable Players
January 11, 2021Look to your left, and now your right, and maybe even in the mirror. You can likely spot the MVPs in your procurement organization.

A New Age of Negotiation: What’s in it for We?
November 26, 2020It’s a natural emotion to desire a favorable outcome within negotiations. But, there are two sides to every negotiation table. This means that your fe...

Procurement: Drowning in Data, starved for Intelligence.
November 2, 2020Global 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 & da...

ProcureTech: The Fast-Growing Software Category no one is talking about.
August 19, 2020The ProcureTech domain offers various solutions for purchasing automation, maintenance of supplier data, risk management, supply chain visibility, spe...

Do you know your best Supplier?
August 6, 2020Who is your best supplier? If you don’t know, chances are you need a new framework for supplier performance evaluation.

COVID19: Is This the Death of Global Supply Chains?
May 26, 2020Will COVID19 create a Death of Global Supply Chains and a rebirth of Local Supply Chains? Or, have we just begun ‘Going Global’?

What if your Supplier had a Yelp Review?
April 14, 2020What if supplier evaluations were as simple as looking up a restaurant on Yelp? This is why we rate!

Procurement Teams want Pretty Simple Solutions.
March 30, 2020Procurement practitioners are challenging ProcureTech vendors to solve complex problems with easy-to-use, easy-on-the-eye, solutions.

Business Continuity Plan Activated due to Covid-19
March 16, 2020The 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-1...

An open letter to the Coronavirus
March 3, 2020All 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 - alongsid...

How to Buy a ProcureTech solution, and actually use it!
February 14, 2020As digitalization continues in various business disciplines, organizations are on a conveyer belt of change, alongside a smorgasbord of new technology...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Digital Procurement
December 4, 2019To 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 ho...

AI + Data = Supply Chain Risk Management
November 13, 2019Procurement teams are combating complexity in multiple dimensions, one of which is a digital complexity; figuring out how in the world they’re going t...

Malin Schmidt joins speakers at SFKs World Quality Day 2019
November 4, 2019Kodiak 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...

9 Big Takeaways from one Digital Procurement Event.
October 18, 2019About 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 select...

Procurement is suffering from Paralysis by Analysis.
September 26, 2019Digitalization in procurement has taken a lot longer than in other industries. But, why? What is it about procurement organizations that makes them so...

Suppliers are friends, not food!
July 8, 2019Whoever 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!

Kodiak Rating joining Sourcing Outlook 2019
July 5, 2019Come 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 ...

How to Build a Digital Procurement Ecosystem in 8 minutes.
June 10, 2019Instigating the mapping/implementation of a digital procurement ecosystem requires a definition of the elements in the process you’d like to digitaliz...

Responsible Sourcing: How to make Sustainability happen, for real.
May 16, 2019Responsible Sourcing is a business-critical activity, in which participating actors are equally accountable for the ethical, social, environmental and...

Kodiak Rating selected as one of 20 innovative startups to join Digital Procurement World 2019.
April 15, 2019Kodiak 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...