Strategic Sourcing Europe

CAPS Research is famous for his studies, surveys and report on Purchasing issues and trends. All studies are available onCAPS website
Since its 1986 beginning, CAPS has produced focus studies: in-depth examinations of critical issues affecting purchasing and supply chain organizations. You can download any of the following reports. CAPS commissions subject-matter experts globally to [...]

Quite some websites are providing interesting insights about Purchasing. Here is a selection I found key for Purchasing professionals.
CAPS Research
Center for Strategic Supply Research is a non-profit, independent research organization co-sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and the Institute for Supply Management. CAPS contributes competitive advantage to organizations [...]

CIPS: The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply is a very unique and well known UK, European and international organisation for Purchasing and Procurement professionals’ excellence.

The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) is an international education and qualification body representing purchasing and supply chain professionals. It gained a Royal Charter in September 1992, [...]

It’ amazing to see how much the Public bodies got involved in e-Sourcing and e-Procurement initiatives. It’s of course related to their massive indirect and non strategic spends which are very appropriate to experiment and generate short term saving. In UK, The OGC has issued in 2005 a compelling guide (66 pages) to e-Procurement for [...]

“What to reverse auction?” this is what ‘new users’ are wondering from start. I’ve answered already this question in other posts regarding auction suitability, but another way to reply to this is to look at what Eutilia has auctioned since 2001: 74 product and service categories.
Since its launch in 2001, several thousand reverse auctions [...]