Strategic Sourcing Europe

Though the impact of sustainable development in the supply chain and procurement has been on HEC radar screen for already 4 years, the french HEC School of management has decided to expand their research with the support of Ariba – duly represented by an eProcurement/eSourcing pioneer Pierre Francois Thaler, currently director of [...]

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The Ethical Sourcing Forum 2007 “Beyond Tomorrow: CSR & Supply Chain” will take place in April 19-20, 2007 in Philadelphia, USA.
If you are interested in ethical procurement or supply chains, then you should register (…).
The Ethical Sourcing Forum is the perfect place to “shop” for new ideas and options to implement or re-calibrate your [...]

Here is a nice shortcut to find and see them all (almost) on one page, thanks to MSN: Search-MSN-images . If you try the same search on Goooogle, it simply doesn’t return any result. Enjoy!

Andrew Bartels ( Forrester Research) released yesterday, 20th of Feb, a new report about the ePurchasing software market: Growth is predicted to be… rather very very low (3 to 10%) in the coming years (surprised?). I can’t tell you much more, as this report is not free to read, but here are complementary [...]

Some times ago, I’ve posted in this blog a template of the tool I used to position a Sourcing Group(SG) in the CSSB matrix (Commodity – Strategic – Standard – Bottleneck). May I remind you that this CSSB matrix enables to determine the strategy to apply and consequently the top tactics to use.
Below are the [...]

Below is an excerpt of the financial communication released the 14th of February 2007 by cc-hubwoo:
The world’s leading provider for ondemand electronic procurement solutions and supplier network management, today announced the successful completion of its recent Rights Issue.
Alain Andréoli, cc-hubwoo President and CEO, commenting on the results of the Rights Issue, said: « The success [...]

Some times ago, I’ve posted on this blog a template of a tool I used to position a Sourcing Group (SG) in the CSSB quadrant matrix (Commodity – Strategic – Standard – Bottleneck). As you – may – know, this CSSB matrix enables to determine which strategy to apply and consequently which major tactics to [...]

AMR Reviews the Spend Visibility Landscape | spend analytic vendors are making progress; from Jason Busch
Purchasing News Roundup | nice list of links from ‘purchasing blog’. The one I enjoyed the most is Entrepreneurial Culture Why European economies lag behind the U.S. (from Mr. Phelps, a professor at Columbia University ; 2006 Nobel Laureate [...]

Below is a basic list where you can find and search for the information you need when qualifying a Sourcing Group:
In Public Information Sources
Available Technology
Export markets by country
Future trends
Information about suppliers
Market information
In Client accounting databases
History of purchases (general ledger)
Seasonality of purchase (A/P, G/L)
Unit prices by supplier (invoice files)
Volume purchased by supplier (A/P)
In Purchasing department database
Capacity [...]

The very first stage to go through when conducting a Strategic Sourcing program is to define or refine which items are to be included in a Sourcing Group. It is the first of 4 analysis to be performed when ‘profiling a Sourcing Group‘ (Strategic Sourcing Step 1):

Defining Sourcing Groups
Analysing Sourcing Group Characteristics
Understanding Sourcing Group Markets
Analysing [...]

Top 10 US Corporate Citizens:

GreenMountainCoffeeRoasters Inc.
AdvancedMicroDevices Inc.
NIKEInc.
MotorolaInc.
IntelCorp.
InternationalBusinessMachinesCorp.
AgilentTechnologies Inc.
TimberlandCo.
StarbucksCoffeeCo.
GeneralMills Inc.

The 100 Best Corporate Citizens list takes a systematic approach to assessing the social and environmental characteristics of a good corporate citizen. The list is drawn from approximately 1,100 publicly held U.S. companies in the Russell 1000, [...]

Though this Website is not dedicated to Procurement & Sourcing, let me just recommend you BNET.com. Belonging to CNET networks and proudly showing a PageRank of 7 to 8, it’s definitly a well-established information portal for Professionals, whatever your function is: You’ll find there nice articles, news, thoughts, links to business reports and even download-able [...]

eWorld Purchasing & Supply is the UK’s most comprehensive event for the online B2B trading community.
The two day business forum is organised in association with The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), The Hackett Group and the National eProcurement Project.
Here is the program:
9.30am-10.00am
KEYNOTE:
The Habits of Highly Successful [...]