Category: Industry
This might be useless but I thought that anybody considering to improve his purchasing performance would look after a consulting firm to make a strategic sourcing methodology deployment faster. …
A long time ago (5 years!) I was trying to sell eutilia concept and services (B2B procurement SaaS) to a french CAC40 multinational. At the end of the first …
Those websites (see below) are not really B2B eMarketplaces for software development but could be, somehow, with some additional functionality like a collaborative ‘online specification description” module. It is …
In this report published in 2005, eMarket Services (an online guide for Medium-sized companies to benefit from eMarketplaces, co-funded by the European Commission and DG Enterprise in 2004-2005) is …
After the big hype in 2001, most – almost 70% – of the top 20 mega-industry consortium eMarketplaces (funded with 40 to 200M€) created at that time have disappeared, …
BayanTrade was an e-Marketplace… which failed BUT… successfully evolved into a leading BPO service company. BayanTrade is one of the 16 members from the famous Open Network for Commerce …
A new and interesting “Industrial Marketing Survey”, conducted by ThomasNet+Google and available here (you need to register), shows that industrial marketers are not completely aware of where the ‘buyers’ …
You may know the Sourcing Innovation blog from Michael Lamoureux but what about his Sourcing Resource Guide page and its 100 TOP links related to procurement or sourcing? You …
This recurrent (famous?) topic was on the agenda of the US CPO’s summit and you can find the executive-outcome here. As titled by Purchasing.com, where I found the article, …
Do you know Bobex? It’s a european B2B marketplace. Not a new one, as Bobex started business in 2000 . Their tagline? “Matching suppliers and buyers”. The principe is …