How to prioritize SGs | SSOA Part III/IV
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 …
TOP 10 consulting firms to work for (with?) in 2006
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. …
An introduction to Procurement BPO
If you want to have a quick overview of the fastest growing back-office area of BPO (i.e. Procurement BPO) which is forecasted to be a billion-dollar market by 2010, …
Spend Analysis ranked #1 area of interest by CPOs
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 …
Top 10 Best Practices in spending analysis
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 …
Top 10 spend management priorities in 2006
Another white paper from Ariba, about spend management priorities for CPOs in 2006. I think this is the kind of white paper we got and we’ll get every year. …
European strategies for low-cost-country sourcing
Ariba and other consulting firms are regularly producing valuable executive papers to market their know-how. You can find most of them on buyersguide.eweek.com, as soon as you accept to …
Business intelligence: Top 5 RSS readers
If, as I do, you browse the internet for hours to get detailed information about your favorite topics, then you probably use a RSS reader. I’m using Netvibes myself …
Top 10 reasons why Startups are condensing in US
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 …
How to define a sourcing strategy and appropriate tactics | SSOA Part II/IV
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 …