Category: Sourcing
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, …
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 …
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 …
This one is a nice one: The ‘7 step’ Strategic Sourcing approach described by a Vice President of AT Kearney. A reference. Points of Interest At a glance, here …
Browsing consulting websites about Strategic Sourcing, I found this week this one, from Gartner. “They can help you no matter what phase you’re in!” they say:
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 …