{"id":2809,"date":"2010-02-12T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/02\/12\/is-the-age-old-argument-in-purchasing-going-to-be-resurfacing-again\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T06:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T10:31:28","slug":"is-the-age-old-argument-in-purchasing-going-to-be-resurfacing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/is-the-age-old-argument-in-purchasing-going-to-be-resurfacing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Age Old Argument In Purchasing Going To Be Resurfacing Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For as long as I can remember, there have been debates about what the purchasing profession should be called. Is it purchasing? Procurement? Supply management? Supply chain management? Acquisition? Spend management? Sourcing? Yada, yada, yada.<\/p>\n

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Signs are that this debate may heat up again. Spend Matters reported that \u201cAriba appears to have moved entirely away from its \u2018Spend Management\u2019 positioning of old.\u201d On its blog \u201cThe Optimum,\u201d Ariba competitor Emptoris explains why it feels \u201cStrategic Supply Management\u201d is the perfect term. Certainly other vendors in the space will fumble for the perfect term, too, as these giants rejigger their terminology.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is this: these vendors will try to come up with a name that (a) differentiates themselves from the competition and (b) gets the attention of who they are selling to. For example, Ariba\u2019s \u201cSpend Management\u201d clearly targeted Chief Financial Officers whose top priority is spending. Very few people actually responsible for sourcing, establishing contracts, and managing relationships with suppliers actually refer to their profession as spend management. Ariba surely knows this, but likely doesn\u2019t care as long as their marketing position is optimized.<\/p>\n

So, the bottom line is that, irrespective of what tech vendors decide \u2013 even though some of them do grasp the advanced nature of procurement\u2019s future \u2013 it is unlikely to widely change what our profession is called though it may spark some lively debate. I don\u2019t see an end in sight to this discussion\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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