A template to prioritize your Sourcing Groups
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 …
eMarketplaces for software development
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 …
The last 52 ‘significant eMarketplaces’ (in 2005)
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 …
Industry consortium eMarketplaces. Who are the survivors?
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, …
Will you BayanTrade?
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 multi-year research project investigating the effectiveness of B2B Online Reverse Auctions
Bob Emiliani and his principal co-author, David Stec, worked as purchasing managers in the aerospace industry where they used reverse auctions. They have issued a dozen research papers for …
How are buyers sourcing for products, services and suppliers?
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’ …
100 TOP links related to procurement or sourcing
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 …
eSourcing: On-demand or behind the firewall?
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, …
Wales aims to save 72 per cent on PC consumables via eSourcing
72%. Do you believe that? Ok, it’s not done yet and we all know that the usage of a framework contract is not as easy at it seems, accross …