Tag: Sourcing

Which company is the most popular eSourcing vendor? I’ve decided to look at Alexa and compare traffic ranking. Below is the outcome. To be honest, first hand, I’ve been …

Purchasing’s has issued its annual Benchmark about E-Sourcing adoption. The percentage of spend going through e-sourcing tools almost doubled in the past year (2005) from 16% in 2005 to …

Getting a right customised product and service classification for your own company is a tuff  and time consuming job. You’d rather start with and leverage a standard and global one as …

This one is a nice one: The ‘7 step’ Strategic Sourcing approach described by a Vice President of AT Kearney. A reference. Points of Interest At a glance, here …

Browsing consulting websites about Strategic Sourcing, I found this week this one, from Gartner. “They can help you no matter what phase you’re in!” they say:

Below is a chart found on … formerly named CPGmarket website (CPGmarket has been acquired by Accenture in 2005 and is now nicely called http://www.trade.supplychainservices.accenture.com), representing an eSourcing approach. …

Do you really see a difference between e-sourcing and e-procurement? Some are mixing the 2. I don’t. So let me explain. E-sourcing involves the strategy development involved in identifying …

The Sourcing Tree is a representation of a categorisation of your purchases. It’s a key component of a Strategic Sourcig approach and enables executing your spend analysis and project …

Are you wondering what you will get by conducting a Strategic Sourcing program? To make a long story short, here is… an answer. Bottom line, running a Strategic Sourcing …

Browsing the web for the latest news about auctions, I land on www.eratool.net home page. The site, built by Lee S. Crane. “currently buyer with the U.S. Postal Service; …