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Rich Sains is the Founder of Acada, a Procurement Tech company that looks to remove the mundane admin based work and gives real time insights as to what teams are working on. The awesome part about this solution is that it doesn’t require loads of “admin” to input the data. It gives a central view to Procurement Leaders as to what their team is working on.

We like that a lot.

Whilst talking, Rich started to go into detail around the design principles they follow at Acada. I was blown away by the attention to detail in the user experience. I’m sure all of you reading this right now have encountered a Procurement tool that promises the world but when you use it, it looks awful. There is nothing worse that a piece of software that is clunky and is stuck in the 90s.

With everything being tracked, it gives you insights into how much time is required to complete tasks. This could be an RFP exercise, a contract review or consolidation of your supply chain. This in invaluable data as a procurement leader and let’s you utilise your available resource in the best way possible.

If we want to get even nerdier here, this is great for any audits that you may have that look into your organisational control measures such as ISO or SOC2.

In this episode we talk about Acada, why Rich started it and when we met a while back in London for a drink.

You can connect with Rich here on Linkedin.

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