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What is VALUE for your organisation? How do you define it and measure it? And how is it changing? Jonathan Dutton FCIPS offers some insights for SUPPLY CLUSTERS members:

In the previous two articles, we asked a perennial question in each – How much should one buyer spen...

In this episode, Joanna Oakey Managing Partner at ASPECT LEGAL in Sydney speaks with Jonathan Dutton of JD Consultancy about the key strategies in driving up the sale-value for your SME size business, using a case study of a business Jonathan actually worked with throu...

Last month, we addressed that long-standing question facing procurement managers – how much should one buyer spend? Or actually be responsible for? This month, the more important follow-up question – how much should one buyer save? Jonathan Dutton FCIPS scopes some sug...

A long-standing question facing procurement managers is how much should one buyer spend? Or actually be responsible for? In other words, what is the best way to both justify and allocate precious resources in busy procurement teams? Jonathan Dutton FCIPS explains for S...

Aggregation works. Building volume to get a better deal is a founding principle of the procurement profession. Buyers instinctively get it. Yet aggregation doesn’t always work as a strategy. It isn’t always the right answer. And buyers often find plenty of reasons not...

Are the savings you are reporting real or fake? How do you know?

Jonathan Dutton FCIPS explains in the fifth of his recent articles for the commercial aggregator, SUPPLY CLUSTERS.

Savings are important. Even though they are not the only measure of procurement contributi...

The rise and rise of procurement had largely ignored aggregators until more recently. Jonathan Dutton FCIPS busts the Seven key myths that held aggregators back until the last few years, in the fourth of his recent articles for the commercial aggregator, SUPPLY CLUSTER...

Quality spend data has always been the Achilles heel of procurement teams trying to take a more strategic approach to spend management. Jonathan Dutton FCIPS explains how that has been changing in the third of a series of articles for SUPPLY CLUSTERS

Savings tend to zer...

AGGREGATION is catching on and reaching the mainstream of procurement management – at long last, you may think.  Jonathan Dutton FCIPS explains the hidden benefits of aggregation not just the obvious ones, in the second of a new series of articles for SUPPLY CLUST...

In the first of a series of article for NSW based spend aggregator, SUPPLY CLUSTERS, Jonathan Dutton FCIPS addresses the business benefit of managing indirect expenditure:

The difference between direct and indirect expenditure can sometimes blur. Ultimately all corporat...