Resources

Guides

Professional Organizations​

• Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM); formerly APICS
• Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS)
• Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
• Supply Chain Canada
• International Federation of Procurement and Supply Management (IFPSM)

Media/Research Firms

• CPO Strategy Magazine – Digital procurement magazine
• CPO Rising – Procurement news & media
• Forrester – Research and advisory firm; publishes a yearly eprocurement “Forrester Wave” ranking procurement software vendors.
• Gartner – Research and advisory firm; publishes a yearly sourcing and procure-to-pay “Magic Quadrant” ranking procurement software vendors.
• Procurement Leaders – Procurement research & networking firm
• Pure Procurement – This very blog!
• Spend Matters – Procurement technology research & articles
• Strategic Sourceror – Industry news and category management expertise
• Supply and Demand Chain Executive – Supply chain news & media
• Procurious – Procurement professional social network

Conferences

• ASCM Annual Conference
• CIPS Events
• Digital Procurement World
• eWorld Procurement & Supply
• Procurecon Events
• Procurement and Supply Management Master Class
• Procurement Leaders’ World Procurement Congress
• Procurious Big Ideas Summit
• Supply Chain Canada Events
• 600Minutes Procurement, Production & Supply Chain

Full Suite Procurement Software Vendors

• Basware
• Coupa
• Ivalua
• Jaggaer
• SAP Ariba
• GEP (SMART)
• Zycus

Other Links

• CrunchBase – Company database (profile, funding and IPO information, merger and acquisition information, etc.)
• Gartner Hype Cycle – Analysis tool on the evolution and maturity of different technologies