Category: Processes

A simple but nice benefit tree to summarize the beauty of Strategic Sourcing that I found on the US navy public pages.    

In  July 2014, ATK issued a white paper on Procurement, “Procurement : How to stand out of the crowd”. You’ll find in this paper a nice representation (see below figure …

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 …

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 …

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 …

There’re things like that I just can”t get it… How can a mature and Professional Purchasing Organization still operate without a robust reverse auctions strategy…? especially when having the …

How do you calculate your savings performance? This is a recurring question and I found a nice thread on linkedin "Savings performance calculation".

In 2006 SAP has issued a white paper about reverse auction best practices. You can find it now on its knowledge hub. Here you go. You will learn the …

Zycus issued in last September 2009 an article titled "5 Best Practices Toward Contract Compliance". In there, You'll learn about what's key when looking after contract compliance: Including clauses …

Browsing the content of this blog as anyone could do, I came to the conclusion that a recap’ of  the 10 articles I posted about ‘strategic sourcing opportunities by …