{"id":2841,"date":"2010-02-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/02\/26\/purchasing-magazines-take-on-the-latest-technology-part-2\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T07:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T11:59:07","slug":"purchasing-magazines-take-on-the-latest-technology-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/purchasing-magazines-take-on-the-latest-technology-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing Magazine’s Take On The Latest Technology, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I posted a mini-review of Purchasing Magazine\u2019s latest cover story, \u201cPurchasing 3.0.\u201d In that review, I shared my encouragement that, after 10 years of Next Level Purchasing carrying the torch, purchasing professionals were finally embracing project management technology as a means of improving purchasing performance.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement & Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n

Today, I simply wanted to point out Purchasing\u2019s inclusion in the article of \u201cFive bells and whistles the average buyer doesn\u2019t use in MS Excel.\u201d Next Level Purchasing was asked to contribute this piece to the article and we were delighted that they used our input.<\/p>\n

Those five \u201cbells and whistles\u201d are:<\/p>\n

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  1. The larger capacity of newer versions of Excel<\/li>\n
  2. Filters<\/li>\n
  3. PivotTables<\/li>\n
  4. Goal Seek<\/li>\n
  5. Conditional Formatting<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want to know what all of these things are, be sure to check out the Purchasing 3.0 article. And if you want to know HOW to use these tools, you may want to consider enrolling in Next Level Purchasing\u2019s online class \u201cMicrosoft Excel For Purchasing Professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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