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The future of Procurement technology

4 golden rules for improving your Class C purchases

Digital Procurement: talent acquisition becomes vital

The future of Procurement technology

Innovation, Internet tools
Procurement Technology ecosystem
The rise of Procurement ecosystem apps.
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4 golden rules for improving your Class C purchases

Best Practices, Internet tools, Technology
Class C purchases or spot buys representing a small 5% fraction of the total spend but a big 60% amount of PO is in general a pain and not …
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Digital Procurement: talent acquisition becomes vital

Best Practices, Innovation
It is interesting to realise that Digital Procurement doesn’t mean at all the same thing for everyone. Many are considering that using Sourcing & Procurement IT systems in the …
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Corporate culture & Digital : What’s the trend?

Organisation
More than we think, Technology is transforming our way of life for ever. Entertainment, Travel, professional and personal life, new generations, all of this is dramatically impacted by Digital …
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Top 10 BIG DATA challenges

Spend Analysis
“Big data” is one of the core component of the Future of Procurement and has major challenges to overcome. The meaning of the expression has been evolving since it …
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Berlin Oct 26th : 5th Annual Conference on Innovative Public Procurement

Events, Public Organisations
The conference At the end of the month in Berlin, the 5th annual conference about innovation in Public Procurement will be held. You can access here the detailed programme of …
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Procurement Outsourcing: Manufacturing leads. High Tech & Telecom is lagging.

Procurement, Studies
As illustrated in below picture, Everest Group is showing insightful trends with regards to Procurement Outsourcing adoption per Industry, between 2009 and 2013, and revealed great disparity: Strong increase in Financials Services, Manufacturing and …
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Why Spend Analysis needs Digital Platforms

Best Practices, Spend Analysis, Strategy
Spend analysis is high on Procurement agenda since the mid 1990 but remains a challenging matter. Spend analysis is a complex topic on its own and encompasses all activities related to “the process of …
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Top 3 trends that will change Procurement forever

Innovation, Strategy, Technology
Usage of Network (hyper-connectivity), Automation and usage of data are 3 trends that will heavily transform Purchasing. On my previous post, I have been sharing my thoughts why Procurement was lagging behind …
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Digital Platforms will revolution B2B interactions

B2B Marketplaces, Best Practices, Innovation, Internet tools
I just went through the post from Spendmatters.com “Why Platforms are needed to accelerate Procurement agility“; if I am sharing the author’s point of view, I would even go beyond: …
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4 golden rules for improving your Class C purchases

Best Practices, Internet tools, Technology
Class C purchases or spot buys representing a small 5% fraction of the total spend but a big 60% amount of PO is in general a pain and not …
[Continue Reading...]

Top 3 trends that will change Procurement forever

Innovation, Strategy, Technology
Usage of Network (hyper-connectivity), Automation and usage of data are 3 trends that will heavily transform Purchasing. On my previous post, I have been sharing my thoughts why Procurement was lagging behind …
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eSourcing adoption : “How to fix it” from ScanMarket

Best Practices, eSourcing, Methodology, Reports
if eSourcing benefits are straightforward, adoption is a different story. ScanMarket (a cloud eSourcing & Spend Analysis service provider) explored ways to address in the white paper “The crisis …
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Scanmarket invites you to its 12 questions, 5′, 2013 eSourcing Survey

eSourcing, Surveys
Scanmarket is a small eSourcing software company, where I have some friends but no shares and interest, providing easy to use spend analysis, RFX and contract mgmt automation tools.  They are inviting any organisation to …
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Top 10 best practices when deploying eProcurement

B2B Marketplaces, Best Practices, eProcurement, Vendors | Service Providers
This is a table I build-up to create ‘client’ awareness on eProcurement deployment challenges and introduce the ‘How to implement and deploy eProcurement”: It is all about Value Enablement, …
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Top 15 questions for Supplier Sustainability Assessment

Best Practices, eSourcing, Surveys, Tools & tips
Late July 09, Wal-Mart announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index, which is expected to lead to higher quality, lower costs and measure the sustainability of products …
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Supply Risk: Top 10 learnings

Best Practices, eSourcing, Vendors | Service Providers
Ariba lately published a whitepaper about Supply Risk management. Wide topic indeed, which obviously shouldn’t be seen as a one-off action but as a continuous effort over time and …
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Enporion, now a veteran-owned company…

eSourcing, News & Press Releases
Enporion was initially a vertical eMarketplace, founded by 7 major US Utility companies ( Allegheny Energy Inc., Allete, Ameren Corporation, CMS Energy Corporation, KeySpan Corporation, PPL Corporation and UGI …
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6 best practices to ensure eSourcing adoption

Best Practices, eSourcing, Reports
Another good 20 page white-paper from SAP © 2006 describing 6 easy-to-use best practices and a couple of tips to support successful adoption of an …
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Comparing online traffic from leading eSourcing vendor’s websites (Alexa)

eSourcing, Reviews, Surveys, Vendors | Service Providers
2 and 3 years ago, I did this exercice already; comparing the online footprint of leading Spend Management Solution vendors with Alexa.  You’ll find below the update 2009  including …
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