The news came out yesterday: Capgemini Group today announced its acquisition of on-demand purchasing solutions provider IBX and with it, the availability of the industry’s first global end-to-end, Procurement-as-a-Service offering. Having collaborated together since summer 2009, Capgemini and IBX decided to join forces in order to drive development of a new global procurement service offering and further expand the addressable market for IBX’s best-in-class technology
Late July 09, Wal-Mart announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index, which is expected to lead to higher quality, lower costs and measure the sustainability of products and help customers, live better in the 21st century. This index will be build out of a 3 steps program, starting by the assessment of their 100 000 supplier base with a Supplier Sustainability Assessment.
Ariba lately published a whitepaper about Supply Risk management. Wide topic indeed, which obviously shouldn’t be seen as a one-off action but as a continuous effort over time and a board-level matter. Supply risk emerged strongly – as the current financial market turned unsecure – and shall stay in CPO’s minds as the economy will [...]
Enporion was initially a vertical eMarketplace, founded by 7 major US Utility companies ( Allegheny Energy Inc., Allete, Ameren Corporation, CMS Energy Corporation, KeySpan Corporation, PPL Corporation and UGI Corporation ) supposed to have enough business traction to make it happen. As we all know now, time for vertical eMarketplace was not yet there and quite early actualy, George Gordon, CEO and Chairman of the company took the right decision to bend the model and turn Enporion as a more general eSupply-Chain enabler (Source to Pay) for all industries, and with a private own technology to mitigate costs and maximize agility.
How do you calculate your savings performance? This is a recurring question and I found a nice thread on linkedin “Savings performance calculation”.
Another good 20 page white-paper from SAP © 2006 describing 6 easy-to-use best practices and a couple of tips to support successful adoption of an eSourcing solution. Not rocket science, just basic change-management key success factors used in any transformation project but applied to eSourcing: Deming PDCA, Simplicity, quick wins and communication…what else?
In 2006 SAP has issued a white paper about reverse auction best practices. You can find it now on its knowledge hub. Here you go. You will learn the essential, i.e. when to use RFx and reverse auctions, how to sell auctions to internal stakeholders, how to get supplier buy-in, how to choose the right auction settings and to run an auction.
Zycus issued in last September 2009 an article titled “5 Best Practices Toward Contract Compliance”. In there, You’ll learn about what’s key when looking after contract compliance: Including clauses sticking the contract to market conditions, defining the right contract metrics, not forgetting auditing the standardized contract management processes you should have put in place
The Scottish Governement has developped a comprehensive Purchasing toolkit and a full suite of Strategic Sourcing templates in order to streamline its Sourcing and Procurement processes. Although devoted to the Public sector Buyers, most of the templates are re-usable by Private-sector Buyers.
The whole toolkit can be found on the Scottish Government website. Below is an [...]
Below is the the list of the top 20 Procurement-related websites identified by CIPSA (CIPS Australia – original source-page is here). I’m proud to see that I’m in, nearby Sourcing Innovation blog, Spend Matters, Supply Excellence…
Do you have a clear understanding of what Supply Risk Management means, of what other professionals think?
Are you not interested in sharing your vision? If so, the survey described below and initiated by the MIT might worth being completed.
PwC is proposing an online tool to benchmark a purchasing function through 39 criteria. Collecting data – to complete this benchmark – is announced to require 4 to 6 hours. This benchmarking tool is part of PwC’s Global Best Practices Knowledge base.
Compare performance with other companies by using this quantitative diagnostic tool created to evaluate [...]
Comparing your performance to your peers in your industry is essential to understand how good you are. Many ways to do so and hereby is another one I just identified, focused on ‘Cost Performance’, reading the article “In Pursuit of a Cutting Edge” published on CFO.com. You” be able to compare your company performance against leading US players in following markets (link brings you directly to an excel tool):
2 and 3 years ago, I did this exercice already; comparing the online footprint of leading Spend Management Solution vendors with Alexa. You’ll find below the update 2009 including for the first time Quadrem, Zycus, Hubwoo and MFG as I appreciate them belonging to the leading players. At the very bottom you’ll get additional information [...]
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