by Gary Salterpicco | Sep 2, 2026 | Procurement
It’s approaching a year since I joined BuyingStation. Looking back at what we’ve developed during that time, there’s one theme that seems to run through much of it: ecosystem. That theme hasn’t only shaped the development of our platform. It has increasingly...
by Kavita Cooper | Jul 22, 2026 | Procurement
I built BuyingStation because I had lived the problem it solves. Before it was a platform, procurement was my job. I spent years chasing suppliers, rebuilding reports and trying to prove savings that were often difficult to track from negotiation through to the bottom...
by Kavita Cooper | Jul 2, 2026 | Procurement
A year ago this month, BuyingStation became a technology company, but not the kind that believes software alone is the answer to everything. After almost a decade of running procurement for our clients, fixing what was broken and building practical tools that kept...
by Gary Salterpicco | Jun 1, 2026 | Procurement
There is a familiar pattern in procurement technology. A new platform arrives promising transformation. It records more data, automates more tasks and generates more reports. Three years later, the organisation is still making the same commercial decisions it always...
by Kavita Cooper | May 26, 2026 | Procurement
A contract lands on your desk for a supplier you have never heard of, appointed by Marketing three months ago without a conversation, while IT has quietly renewed a software licence at last year’s terms and Operations has onboarded a new supplier in the same week,...
by Kavita Cooper | May 22, 2026 | Procurement
If your LinkedIn feed looks anything like mine, it is wall to wall AI content and I understand why. At BuyingStation we are deep in it. I personally use Claude, Lovable, Perplexity, ChatGPT, DeepSeek and more besides. The capability is real, the pace of development is...
