Category: Processes
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, …
Alf Noto is vice-president indirect sourcing at Nokia. He wrote a great article about 5 major differences between indirect/direct procurement . You can read it at European Leaders Network. …
From “The Forrester Wave™: eSourcing Suites, Q4 2005”, Andrew Bartels issued a specific report about Verticalnet in November 2006 and said: Verticalnet’s eSourcing suite ranks third in current offering, …
Zycus, one of the leading provider of Spend Analysis Automation, is partnering with UNSPSC and has issued a quite complete and instructive 47 page report called “UNSPSC for better …
Since a couple of years now, Procuri is delivering web seminar in a regular basis. This is a great idea. I believe that distributing and sharing information through internet-based video will …
Last time, I’ve explained in the post SSOA Part II/IV how to define which strategy and tactic to apply per SG. The third and next step is to define …
Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), representing over $1.46T in spend under management, gather at the Aberdeen CPO Summit to chart the course ahead. Interestingly enough, “CPO Summit attendees ranked Spend …
As you can see I love Top 10’s… I was busy identifying leading providers covering the ‘spending analysis’ automation process when I found this nice report from the Aberdeen …
In a former post, I’ve described – briefly but good enough I hope – how to scope the purchases to include in a Strategic Sourcing program. This was the …
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 …