{"id":2562,"date":"2008-10-27T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/10\/27\/getting-started-with-procurement-technology\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T04:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T08:19:43","slug":"getting-started-with-procurement-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/getting-started-with-procurement-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started With Procurement Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you enjoyed the article \u201cProcurement Technology Success Secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>While this article gave some advice around justifying to management a procurement technology investment and deciding which procurement technology to implement first, it represents only a small portion of what was discussed in the podcast on which the article was based.<\/p>\n<p>In that podcast, I had the chance to ask Linda Peyton some questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do you figure out what is hype and what is real when evaluating [procurement technology] vendors?<\/li>\n<li>What should be done to minimize the risk to your technology initiative considering the possibility of one of your prospective vendors being acquired?<\/li>\n<li>What non-technology ducks have to be in a row to make a technology implementation work?<\/li>\n<li>What are some of the change management challenges faced by individuals implementing procurement technology and how can they overcome them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know how Linda \u2013 a seasoned veteran with procurement technology implementations \u2013 answered these questions, be sure to check out the podcast here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that you enjoyed the article \u201cProcurement Technology Success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - 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