Category: Enablers

This recurrent (famous?) topic was on the agenda of the US CPO’s summit and you can find the executive-outcome here. As titled by Purchasing.com, where I found the article, …

72%. Do you believe that? Ok, it’s not done yet and we all know that the usage of a framework contract is not as easy at it seems, accross …

On a quaterly basis, Forrester is issuing a leading-vendor ranking on several subjects and more specifically about contract management, an important software piece in the e-sourcing and e-procument battlefield. …

The Information Service Division of the university of Saldford has issued in 2004 (still ok…) a quite interesting paper listing common questions that anyone would have about company|market information …

Do you know Bobex? It’s a european B2B marketplace. Not a new one, as Bobex started business in 2000 . Their tagline? “Matching suppliers and buyers”. The principe is …

Are you using standard pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) to identify the most suitable suppliers to invite to tender for contracts?. PQQ, widely used in the Public Sector, was a strong …

I remember the early days when running our first auctions and not having really a clue about how long they would last… we even got an auction running for …

I don’t know why, but I got the feeling Open Source applications will take-off more and more. Currently, it is still difficult to find a lot of alternative or …

Most of the big eProcurement players are struggling for critical mass and attractive pricing. Very few are already cash positive and if so, they have still a long way …

I have no clue when this new – and free! – service has been launched but it’s not more than a couple of month ago. It is definitly a …