Category: Tools & tips

There are many ways to evaluate the quality and extend of your SRM processes, depending on your objectives and specific environment. On the other hand, it is not so …

Reading the latest IBX‘s newsletter this morning, I discovered their new – to my eyes! – European Purchasing Magazine called “Efficient Purchasing“, published twice a year. Pretty good I …

Don’t tell me you are not interested to know how your own salary benchmarks with other european purchasing professionals… The European Institute for Purchasing Management (EIPM) is offering the …

First post about The European Institute for Purchasing Management (EIPM). EIPM has developed and is offering free on its website a powerful internet based “skill self-assessment tool” for purchasing …

When the time comes to evaluate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a product/Service, it is better not to forget any critical element in the calculation of the …

In phase I/IV of a Strategic Sourcing Opportunity Assessment (see my HOWTO scope purchases post), you need to distribute your Sourcing Groups into 4 different categories (Standard, Commodity, Strategic, …

At the moment you have finalised your spend analysis and bundled your purchasing items into commodities or Sourcing Groups, you might find this excel spreadsheet useful to identify which …

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 …

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 …