Strategic Sourcing Europe

On its website, CSR Europe addresses this FAQ through different angles. Simply click on one of the links if you want to access the full article. Otherwise, I just summarised key findings below each link. I already touched this topic in earlier CSR related posts but I wanted as well to present a European organisation [...]

Do you know BITC? I guess you do… if you are CSR-addicted. If not, this post might be useful to you. BITC (Business In The Community) is a unique independent business led charity whose purpose is to inspire, engage, and support and challenge companies, to continually improve the impact they have on society. With a [...]

I found those practices – detailed in an article published by www.metricstream.com , a company which can help you managing your suppliers closer and more efficiently – pragmatic and essential to my point of view. On the other hand, they definitely connect to Green Procurement as they support an effective supplier performance control. That’s the [...]

In the latest “e-Achats infos” newsletter (in French, oops) from March 2007, BravoSolution, leaded by its CEO Federico Vitaletti, reveals an impressive organic revenue growth 05/06 of 40%, reaching by the way 25M€ revenue in 2006 with 220 employees spread across Italy, France and UK mainly. Simply A-MA-ZING, though not as good as Procuri (56% [...]

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SupplierScan.com, managed by Allan Skyner, has yesterday launched an online database service giving buyers within the European Utility industry direct access to ~5000 suppliers for their specific products or services. The launch of this database empowers the core online-service (called SupplierScan and which is about searching, finding and pre-evaluating new suppliers), making it quicker and [...]

Sorting out 10′s of case studies, white papers and researches I’ve archived since 2001 when I joined Eutilia, I found this great and long article from Peter Henig, written in 2000 in the famous Red Herring magazine and about industry-sponsored exchanges. Many of his assumptions turned true though in opposition with the hype… . Congrats [...]

In a former post “CSR: A buzz like never before…” I have breifly described the topics covered by CSR. Below is a more extended list – a sample though – of the Economical, Environment, Working environment and Social criteria that would be to assess for a CSR rating purpose: Economical Criteria – Company structure and [...]

eAuctions. Savings. I have the weird impression I have covered this topic in and out already (Read my 30 posts about eAuctions) but still needing to share about it, as if I was feeling it was not well understood by everyone. As a matter of fact and as I was reading with interest the commercial [...]