Warning for the purchasing profession’s future
I found this article on SupplyManagement.com. Technology could make buyers redundant within the next five years. This is the view of professor Richard Lamming, director of the school of …
France 24: the french CNN is live
France entered the international television news market (CNN, BBCworld and Al-Jazira International mainly) yesterday with the launch of France 24 — a round-the-clock network in French and English with …
‘The chicken and the egg’ dilemma of SaaS
Browsing my RSS feeds about Sourcing, Procurement and Technology with my preferred Netvibes Tab, I went through a post of Jason Busch about SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) which, I …
Direct and indirect procurement call for different leadership approaches
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. …
eSourcing is climbing the slope of enlightenment
Every year The Gartner is releasing “Hype Cycle” reports for different trendy IT models. With regard to SaaS, the Gartner has issued its report “Hype Cycle for Software as …
eSourcing: Verticalnet ranks 3rd now!
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, …
Filling online forms automatically
At a certain point, it’s not even anymore an option. It’s a must have: You can’t survive without a tool to remember all of your usernames-passwords and helping you …
Top Spend Analysis Automation providers
I felt on this compelling powerpoint presentation from the Forrester, issued in late-november 2005, and titled ” Market overview of Procurement and Sourcing application”, a bit old I confess …
UNSPSC for better Spend Analysis
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 …
Top 5 Supply Strategies (Procuri’s Web Seminar)
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 …