Tag: Sourcing
In phase I/IV of a Strategic Sourcing Opportunity Assessment (see my HOWTO scope purchases post), you need to distribute your Sourcing Groups into 4 different categories (Standard, Commodity, Strategic, …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …