Category: Strategy

The following 9 CPOs have been selected by www.Purchasing.com for its second annual audiocast series: Kurt Doelling, Sun Microsystems Rick Jacobs, Eaton Corp. Anthony Santiago, Bristol-Myers Squibb Gregg Brandyberry, …

European stakeholders are providing a set of guidelines for public authorities and contracting parties to support the introduction and use of Green Public Procurement. Published in 2004, Buying Green! is …

Yeah-yeeees… Of course you know the difference between those 2 ‘high-buzzing’ concepts which are green procurement and Sustainable procurement. However, the more I read about it, the more I …

If you take a step back and look at the evolution of enterprise relationships in the last years, you’ll notice how much Outsourcing has grown in all industrial sectors …

Are you still ignoring who Achilles Group is? Of course not! Indeed, a ~30M€ revenue and worldwide leading provider of Supplier Management Information (supplier pre-qualification databases). Achilles’ supplier management …

Supplier Enablement is one of my favorite topic. To my eyes, it goes much beyond a deployment of a e-catalogue-based procurement-process and ‘flirt’ with the ‘good-old-magic’ “plug and play …

At last! To be honest, it took me quite a while to find a good and relevant CSR self-assessment questionnaire, yes but available free online as well. That surprises me actually: …

There is an increasing need for corporate responsibility monitoring and management. Everywhere, more and more, it will become a mandatory-standard. Vigeo understood that some time ago and was founded …

I’ve been issuing posts so far about outsourcing procurement tasks or goods, but do you know that you can as well outsource part of you activities to india,  as …

To me, Spend Analysis is a critical area to get under control and where a good-size company should invest in. I’ve mentioned it several times and lately in a …