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What Is MCP? Procurement's Guide to the Model Context Protocol

Sep 27, 2026

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9 min read

What Is MCP? Procurement's Guide to the Model Context Protocol

Your vendors keep saying their solution is "MCP-ready." Here's what that means.

Deploying AI Agents in Procurement Without Getting Burned

Sep 20, 2026

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10 min read

Deploying AI Agents in Procurement Without Getting Burned

A frontier lab just lost control of its own test agents. The lessons for how you evaluate, sandbox, and contract AI in Source-to-Pay.

Your Supplier Punch-Out Catalogs Are Broken. Here's How to Fix Them.

Sep 6, 2026

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17 min read

Your Supplier Punch-Out Catalogs Are Broken. Here's How to Fix Them.

The follow up to "Death by Supplier Punch-Out Catalogs"

The Supplier Master Data "Single Source of Truth" Myth

Nov 23, 2025

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9 min read

The Supplier Master Data "Single Source of Truth" Myth

Why Supplier Data Integration Hell Is Killing Your Tech Stack

May 4, 2025

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8 min read

How to Master Supplier Data Quality

A 5-step framework for better supplier data

Nobody Cares About Your Commodity Codes...

Aug 25, 2024

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5 min read

Nobody Cares About Your Commodity Codes...

Let's face it

How to Build a Great Commodity Code Taxonomy

Jan 7, 2024

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11 min read

How to Build a Great Commodity Code Taxonomy

Your Procurement strategy is only as good as your spend data

Is the Vendor "Single Source of Truth" Concept Obsolete?

Sep 10, 2023

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5 min read

Is the Vendor "Single Source of Truth" Concept Obsolete?

The first of many Sunday Night Notes...

Jun 15, 2022

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13 min read

How to Make AI Work for Procurement

Data quality is the key to unlocking the value of artificial intelligence for Procurement