Supplier self-assessment may seem like a small part of an overall SRM strategy, but in reality, self-assessment is a cornerstone of organizational due...

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!

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 ...

Instigating the mapping/implementation of a digital procurement ecosystem requires a definition of the elements in the process you’d like to digitaliz...

Responsible Sourcing is a business-critical activity, in which participating actors are equally accountable for the ethical, social, environmental and...

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...

The flywheel then serves as a model to be mirrored in the everyday operations of an organization or team. With persistence and will, continuing to pus...

Not everyone in the organization always knows what we’re talking about because sometimes we don’t even know what we’re about. So, this is a wake-up ca...

Supplier Risk Management and Performance Management are the building blocks to long-term, and fruitful, supplier relationships. Find out 30+ parameter...

How is it possible, that a function serving as one of the greatest creators of sustainability and quality management in the line, cost-based savings, ...

Procurement is a function, activity, and role that is increasingly business critical to an organization’s overall value chain. In fact, many organizat...

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 ex...

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 ...

As to how procurement will add value in an organization lies within defining a scope for the role of a procurement strategy: Long-Term or Short-Term? ...

Procurement is a business function that has undergone a lot of change in the last few years. Due to globalization, growing consumer demands on transpa...

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 recei...

I’m a blogger. I’m a copywriter. And, I’m going to tell it like it is. Buzzwords are the destruction of Procurement Technology.

Your procurement team is too old; face it. And, they’re not getting any younger. But, there’s a new wave of talent on the way in, and they’re about as...

High levels of confidence in the areas of technological adoption indicate a positive step towards acceptance of supply chain technology implementation...

Supplier quality management is an overall evaluation of delivery and performance within the boundaries of agreed upon terms and conditions of supplier...

Supplier bases are a great source of potential innovation. But, unlocking collaborative supplier innovation requires clearly defined strategies and op...

A procurement strategy should be structured with a clearly defined set of goals and an overarching vision. Having clear goals in mind will allow your ...