Procurement & Career Guidance
Black Friday is the premiere shopping holiday in America, but will it be so forever?
In the backdrop of pandemics and other online sales holidays like Cyber Monday and Prime Day, has Black Friday lost its appeal?
And what does Black Friday have to do with plumbing?
Companies are trying to turn everything into a monthly software subscription.
You can’t be fooled by the hype, step back and understand what the product is, and what you are actually purchasing.
Just because a supplier calls their product SaaS or PaaS doesn’t mean it is. If a company is performing a service for you and spitting out a document or a product, that isn’t software.
A good relationship with a vendor sales representative can be transformational. You can save your company money and they can grow their business.
But there are times when people don’t click or someone is having a bad day and good thing can go wrong.
What can be done to salvage the relationship and when is it time to walk away?