by Jonathan White | Case Studies, Data Transformation, Procurement Analytics, Spend Analytics, Spend Management
NC State University Finance and Procurement present their spend analytics initiatives at the Treasury Institute for Higher Education, SACUBO and NACUBO conferences North Carolina State University and Spikes Cavell presented a session on how spend analysis changed...
by Jonathan White | Case Studies, Data Transformation, Procurement Analytics, Spend Analytics, Spend Management
In 2006, an official review of public procurement in Scotland was undertaken. Based on the report’s recommendations, the Scottish Procurement Directorate, a part of the Scottish Government, set up a Public Procurement Reform Program that aimed to drive standards for...
by Jonathan White | Articles, Data Transformation, Procurement Analytics, Spend Analytics, Spend Management
In this day and age, there is no reasonable excuse for a procurement team in an organization – whether private, not-for-profit or public in nature, small, medium or large in size – not to know how much it spends, where, on what and with whom. Read more in this...
by Mike Harrison | Case Studies, Data Transformation, Observatory, Procurement Analytics
City of Tucson used our services deliver improved spend and contract visibility. We talked to Marcheta Gillespie, Interim Director of Procurement, about her experience to date. “So someone like Spikes Cavell comes along, and whether it’s transforming our data for...
by Mike Harrison | Data Transformation, Procurement Analytics, Spend Analytics
Luke Spikes, our founder & CEO, speaking at the 2014 California Public Higher Education Collaborative Business and Administrative Services Conference at the CSU’s East Bay Campus in August 2014. If you’ve ever wondered how to incorporate a small rodent, the moon,...
by Mike Harrison | Case Studies, Data Transformation, Observatory, Spend Management
Homes for Haringey first commissioned Spikes Cavell to deliver spend analysis via the Observatory in 2009 to deliver improved spend and contract visibility and have been a constant subscriber ever since. Having been asked to create a procurement strategy in 2009,...
by Mike Harrison | Articles, Data Transformation, Observatory, Spend Management
A guide to identifying procurement savings You may have already seen step 1 of the process where we covered how understanding the current procurement situation is an important first step towards generating procurement savings for public bodies. The second step...
by Mike Harrison | Articles, Data Transformation, Spend Management
Guide to Procurement Savings To know where money can be saved, you need to know where it’s spent. But, the reality for the majority of public and education sector procurement teams is that finding the answer to questions is much more difficult than it ought to be....
