Category: Enablers

Anyone – in Europe at least – dealing with B2B Sourcing activities is aware of Europages, Kompass, Dunn and Bradstreet, but what about Masterseek (45 million companies in 75 …

Which company is the most popular eSourcing vendor? I’ve decided to look at Alexa and compare traffic ranking. Below is the outcome. To be honest, first hand, I’ve been …

Purchasing’s has issued its annual Benchmark about E-Sourcing adoption. The percentage of spend going through e-sourcing tools almost doubled in the past year (2005) from 16% in 2005 to …

Getting a right customised product and service classification for your own company is a tuff  and time consuming job. You’d rather start with and leverage a standard and global one as …

“Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download software ?” That’s the tagline of Zamzar. Zamzar is a great new online Internet freeware tool for …

More and more business software are available Open Source. I found this one, named TenderSystem, for e-Tendering and e-Procurement. For sure, I’ll make a trial soon and report my …

This research report (2003 – from CAP Research) develops a structured, multi-phase, analytical methodology for evaluating alternative e-procurement solutions. The motivation for this CAPS Research focus study stemmed from …

Below is a chart found on … formerly named CPGmarket website (CPGmarket has been acquired by Accenture in 2005 and is now nicely called http://www.trade.supplychainservices.accenture.com), representing an eSourcing approach. …

Do you really see a difference between e-sourcing and e-procurement? Some are mixing the 2. I don’t. So let me explain. E-sourcing involves the strategy development involved in identifying …

The Sourcing Tree is a representation of a categorisation of your purchases. It’s a key component of a Strategic Sourcig approach and enables executing your spend analysis and project …