ProcureVue™

Navigating Turbulent Times: How Market Builds Empower Procurement Leaders to Steer Through a Shifting Political Landscape

As 2025 advances, the U.S. political landscape is poised for transformation, with each policy shift, leadership change, and global realignment potentially creating ripples across many industries. In...

Demystifying AI: Understanding Its Everyday Applications

Artificial intelligence has long been considered a futuristic concept and the root cause of many concerns. Yet, many do not realize that AI is already seamlessly integrated into our daily routines,...

Supporting Asheville After Hurricane Helene: ProcureVue's Commitment

Climate change – expecting the unexpected

The ever-evolving nature of climate change continues to surprise, affecting our ecosystems, economies, and daily lives in unforeseen ways.

Revolutionizing Olympic Event Broadcasting with AI

Explore how AI is transforming the way we watch and experience the Olympics, making every moment more engaging and accessible.

ProcureVue: Our First Podcast Feature

Discover the journey of ProcureVue in our first-ever podcast feature, where CEO Cameron Jagoe unveils the story behind our strategic sourcing success.

An Introduction to Levels of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Spend Analytics

It is increasingly difficult to read any sort of business publication these days without seeing how AI is going to change the way business is done. Some of this is reality but some of it does look a...

ProcureVue: Industry Leading Procurement Analytics Insights

In today’s data-driven business landscape, harnessing the power of data analytics tools has become essential for companies seeking to gain a competitive edge. These tools transform raw data into...

How to Make Annual Procurement Budget Planning Effective and Easy

Effective procurement budget planning is crucial for the success of any organization. It ensures the necessary resources are available to meet the organization's needs while controlling costs....

Reining in Your Procurement Budget: A Comprehensive Guide

Effective procurement management is vital for achieving financial stability and success. Controlling procurement costs is a top priority in today's highly competitive business landscape. By...

Streamlining Procurement Budgets: The Power of Finance Automation

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, finance teams face an ever-increasing demand to do more with less (i.e., inflation, etc.). This challenge is particularly evident when it comes to...

Planning Tips for Procurement Officers at the End of the Fiscal Year

As the fiscal year comes to a close, procurement professionals find themselves facing a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Year-end procurement planning is crucial for ensuring that your...

The Analytics of Black Friday

Black Friday is one of the most significant shopping events of the year, with retailers offering enticing deals to attract hordes of eager customers. Behind the scenes, retailers employ a range of...

How to Avoid Busting End-of-Year Procurement Budgets

As the end of the fiscal year approaches, procurement professionals face a common challenge – staying within their budget while ensuring that essential procurement needs are met. The pressure to...

4 Proactive Ways to Use Your End-of-Year Budget (Before You Lose It)

As the end of the year approaches, many businesses and organizations find themselves in a familiar position: they have a budget surplus that needs to be spent before the year-end deadline. While...

Demystifying Data Labeling: A Primer for Procurement Leaders

In the realm of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), one of the key ingredients for success is labeled data. It is the foundation upon which models learn to make sense of the...

Data Analytics in Rugby

If you missed it, the Rugby World Cup has just taken place in France. The tournament was a huge success, with more nations competing than ever and South Africa holding onto the tag of world champions...

Baseball, Business, and Analytics

Leveraging Procurement Data Analytics in Annual Budgeting

In today's data-focused era, organizations must utilize analytics to improve processes and increase efficiency. In procurement, data analytics can be incredibly impactful, transforming the budgeting...

ProcureCon Recap

Managing Indirect Spend with ProcureVue™

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ProcureCon 2023

Just one week before ProcureCon! We are looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones at the event in Barcelona in the last week of September. We listened to your data challenges last...

Pareto, ProcureVue, and Your “Vital Few”

The Pareto Principle undergirds any chart, table, or graph visually depicting priorities by their potential impact.

SKU Rationalization

In procurement organizations, SKU (stock-keeping unit) management is crucial to successful product life cycle management. Understanding the impact of SKU proliferation on the business can lead to...

Welcoming Our New Data Analyst!

QuickVue™ into Spend Cubes

What is it?

Reducing Exposure to China: (Whitepaper Teaser)

Our next topic in the Vue™ Whitepaper Series examines the strategies employed by American companies to mitigate their exposure to Chinese manufacturing while ensuring consistent quality, optimizing...

Climbing Kilimanjaro (Part 3)

We made it! After three and a half years of planning, complete with Covid disruptions, it took us eight and a half hours from our final base at the School Hut camp (4,800m) to climb to the Uhuru peak...

Data Cleansing - Lessons Learned and Today's Solutions

Kilimanjaro – Preparations for the Big Climb

When teaching negotiation skills courses, I used to use the comparison with climbing a mountain as an example of an event that you should always prepare for thoroughly before starting. As we prepare...

Transforming Data into Jet Fuel

If Data is the New Oil, how do we transform spend data into the equivalent of jet fuel to power business growth?

Climbing Kilimanjaro for the Samson Centre

At the end of June, Andy Symmonds, Managing Partner of our EMEA business unit, plans to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money for charity. At 5,895m (19,341 ft) above sea level,...

ProcureCon Connect (Amsterdam)

The ProcureVue™ team enjoyed participating in the recent ProcureCon Connect event at the Novotel Hotel in Amsterdam. Andy Symmonds, Managing Partner of our EMEA business unit, and Russ Gimson, Senior...

Analytics and the NFL Draft

The National Football League (NFL) is one of the most popular sports leagues in the world. Each year, it holds events that help teams find new players to add to their rosters. The NFL Combine and NFL...

How can businesses learn from how Formula 1 teams use data analytics to inform strategies?

Formula 1 is one of the most rapidly growing sports in the United States. After decades of being a premier sport in the rest of the world, the US has finally caught on. Now that Formula 1 is in the...

Certainty in Uncertain Times (Part 4)

Lessons from War and Business In part 1 of this series, we examined how the Ukrainian military has incorporated technologies from satellites to cellular usage data to gather intelligence....

Certainty in Uncertain Times (Part 3)

Who Wins? Imagine a game of Chess, Checkers, or Uno where one player gets to move twice for every move their opponent makes. Who wins? The player who moves twice as often.

Certainty in Uncertain Times (Part 2)

Who Wins During Chaotic Times? In part 1 of this series, we examined the impacts of the pandemic, climate change, and the war in Europe. We noted that due to the seeming smallness of our world due to...

Certainty in Uncertain Times (Part 1)

How to Win as a CPO

As a Chief Procurement Officer, you know the competition for resources is fierce. You must be creative, diplomatic, and persistent. But did you know that there are specific techniques that can help...

Indirect Spend: An OverVue™

Indirect spend plays a vital role in an organization's success but is often considered too hard to gather and analyze. Due to how indirect items are handled in an organization, this spend often goes...

The Ultimate Indirect Expenditure- Economics of Super Bowl Advertising

The Super Bowl is one of the most significant events in the United States, with millions of viewers tuning in each year to watch the game and the highly anticipated commercials. For advertisers,...

Data Analytics and Hosting the Super Bowl

Hosting the Super Bowl can have a significant financial impact on the host city. The influx of NFL fans for the event can bring in millions of dollars in revenue for local businesses from bars,...

Can Procurement Technology Save your Job?

Procurement technologies are revolutionizing how businesses operate, and in the current economic climate, they can also play a crucial role in saving jobs. With many companies laying off employees...

Tom Brady Level Health

Why can pro athletes recover from illness and injury quicker than the rest of us? Why do Hollywood stars like Tom Cruise seem to be ageless? How has Tom Brady maintained his arm and body throughout...

CASE STUDY: Complex North American Manufacture & Distributor

A North American distributor with a global supply chain built through acquisition over the last 25+ years, combining manufacturing and distribution to provide a total value solution to their...

Preparing for a Recession

According to Harvard Business Review only 9% of businesses come out of a recession ahead.

Technology and Intelligent Decision Making

Cost optimization remains a tangible goal but with a lesser focus than conventional business operations.

How COVID Supply Chain Interruptions Affect the Medical & Pharmaceutical Industry in 2022

In 2020 and 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic halted the production and transportation of pharmaceutical raw materials and products. Many medical and pharmaceutical corporations faced setbacks due to...

People & Technology: A Marriage in Applied Analytics

Introduction In the past two decades, the world has become more digital in ways that once only existed in science fiction. And while the recent pandemic has undoubtedly changed how customers interact...

The Evolution of Procurement

We are excited to share our new video “The Evolution of Procurement.” A fun short about how we began and how we’ve arrived in the context of historical procurement and business analytics.

ProcureVue™ Sponsors Pinehurst Charity Event

ProcureVue™ is thrilled to support such a great cause with a great group of people. To Cure a Rose Foundation really outdid itself at one of the world’s best courses. Thanks to Casey and the team for...

ProcureVue™ - Business Intelligence Simplified

Sourcing Reimagined ProcureVue™ transforms your spend data into measurable outcomes enabling you to evolve your company's supply chain.