Category: Enablers
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 …
One of your Business-Unit needs a new service and they are considering delivering it partially because there are some capabilities they don’t have, so they need your help but …
When having to shape a ‘TO-BE-best-in-class’ Procurement organisation, right sizing the organisation is one of the first matter that comes to the table and that needs an answer. Let me share my experience …
Having a formal Vendor Management program in place is a good evidence of Procurement maturity as it requires a robust list of pre-requisits to make any sense: Strategic and Preferred …
The holistic view of Managing and improving your spend baseline is rather simplistic but worth getting structured. You shall consider a) 3 major levers: Supplier , Demand and Cost management – and b) …
Sourcing and demand management are best levers for spend baseline reduction, but on the long run Vendor Management is critical for 1-3% savings year on year. First of all …
In 2012, Proxima released an interesting Survey about indirect Procurement. Although it may sound obvious, the report is providing brilliant baselining view on 2 dimensions: Indirect Spend category that …
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, …
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 …
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 …