Category: Enablers

To me, Spend Analysis is a critical area to get under control and where a good-size company should invest in. I’ve mentioned it several times and lately in a …

18 Opportunities to improve the way you buy your fax/copier-machines are listed on the graph below. Click to read the graph

I’m initiating a “Strategic Sourcing Opportunity” Series based on the Magic triangle I presented some time ago in the post “Creating Value with Strategic Sourcing“. Purpose is to point …

Some time ago, I’ve published a template to help you out positioning a SG (Sourcing Group) into the Strategic Sourcing’s 4-quadrant Matrix (I call it as well the CSSB …

If you are wondering how good you are in managing your purchasing department performance, this post might be of some interest. Below you will find listed 8 questions – …

I would like first to congrat Michael Lamoureux for his “Top Three Series” initiative, “asking professionals he knows to name their top 3 critical issues in the sourcing / …

If you’re running behind short-term savings, working on the ‘strategic quadrant’ products and services might be painful. Indeed, don’t expect short-term results there and moreover, be aware this quadrant …

This has nothing to see with procurement, although I can imagine it could be useful to present a product online to potential buyers. What? Adding, with no tags and …

Lately and following his 25-page Forrester Wave™ Vendor report for Q2 2007, Andrew Bartels updated his views about top procurement providers: Ariba remains the Goliath of the market, while …

In a previous post, I have defined the 7 steps of a robust strategic sourcing methodology (SSM). My intention is now to provide more details about each step. Step …