CAPS Research, A.T. Kearney, and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) are jointly sponsoring a research study entitled “Succeeding in a Dynamic World: Supply Management in the Decade Ahead.” The research will identify trends shaping tomorrow’s business strategies and models and how these will affect the ways that organizations develop, manage, and use supply relationships [...]
The comprehensive guide to 2006′s leading supply chain solution providers on the forefront of innovation published mid-2006 is here, in an article authored By Sarah Murray and Andrew K. Reese from SDCExec. I’m wondering why Zycus is not there, nor BravoSolution, Synertrade, Hubwoo… Most of the nominated companies are American. Well, if you feel like [...]
Last week I reported the release of the latest Advanced Sourcing report from Aberdeen. From my perspective, there’s nothing really new in the picture, though interesting stats about best practices, majors obstacles and ways-out. Andrew Bartolini, the author, informed me that he would be happy to answer your questions if any. Nice isn’t it? So, [...]
“Spend Analysis, A European perspective”. That’s the official title for this one hour free webcast sponsored by one (THE?) spend-analytics market leader Zicus, and below is a short description of the topics to be covered: “In this one hour long webcast, one of the leading thought leaders in the Spend Management sector Andrew Bartels, VP [...]
Zycus Redefines Spend Analysis into an Actionable and Result Oriented Process “Actionable Analytics 4.0 is a flexible tool that can be designed, within limits, to align and monitor balanced scorecard objectives. The application can quickly drill down to detail, but also functions at a higher level through the use of a dashboard (pipeline) that gives [...]
I guess this speaks by itself. Below is a template that anyone can use to analyse TCO. Just keep in mind that TCO components may vary from one product to another. I beleive though that this template gives a good basis to start with.
Here are links and comments I found on Line56 to the most downloaded free enterprise applications on Sourceforge: wxPython: “A set of Python extension modules that wrap the cross-platform GUI classes from wxWidgets.” Compiere: “Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global market covering all areas from order and customer/supplier management, supply chain to [...]
In october last year, I’ve explained – shortly I admit, but with a nice exhibit – what a sourcing tree is (product / service categorisation). If I recon my stats about my popular posts, this is definitly one of interest. So, here is a more extensive example of a sourcing tree (which I used in [...]
Andrew Bartolini from the Aberdeen Group just informed me about the availability of “The Advanced Sourcing and Negotiation Benchmark Report: The Art and Science of the Deal“, free for my readership to access until the end of march 2007. Here is the link to access the report. I presented the objectives of this survey in [...]
Paul Snell reveals, in his article “Maverick spends, not a major issue for buyers“, the top 3 reasons of 326 global companies surveyed by the research firm NelsonHall ( a global US Business Process Outsourcing analyst firm) ,for outsourcing indirect procurement: reducing process costs (84 per cent of companies), accelerated sourcing times (79 per cent), [...]
Professional social network LinkedIn has raised $12.8 million from Bessemer Venture Partners and the European Founders Fund, early this week. ” The company, which is profitable since March 2006, has raised $13.4 million in two previous rounds of financing, bringing the total to more than $26 million. The company generated $10 million-ish in revenue in [...]
Jack Ma (Alibaba CEO) success story, reviewed in this article from Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop found there, on International Herald Tribune website, nicely illustrate my post of yesterday about the impact of globalisation on Supply Chain Management: “Alibaba and Taobao have been much more successful in China than their competitors because they were able to cater their services specifically for the China [...]
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