Strategic Sourcing Europe

If you’re running behind short-term savings, working on the ’strategic quadrant’ products and services might be painful. Indeed, don’t expect short-term results there and moreover, be aware this quadrant needs a lot of time and effort to be properly worked out. However, middle term results can be much more significant than any others and such, [...]

Each year SAP offers a major opportunity for its customers, partners, consultants, and users, to learn about SAP solutions at its ‘SAP-PHIRE’ event. On April 22 – 25, 2007, executives, business managers, and industry experts have been invited at SAPPHIRE ‘07 Atlanta to exchange ideas and explore innovative business and technology solutions. You couldn’t make [...]

This has nothing to see with procurement, although I can imagine it could be useful to present a product online to potential buyers. What? Adding, with no tags and manual work, 3D information to pictures. Yes, looks weird but…
2 applications are currently making some viral-marketing-buzz about their future capabilities (not even yet in beta). Have [...]

Lately and following his 25-page Forrester Wave™ Vendor report for Q2 2007, Andrew Bartels updated his views about top procurement providers: Ariba remains the Goliath of the market, while competition is getting closer, succeeding in developing differentiators, and sometimes over-exceeding Ariba’s performance on specific functionality, product categories or sectors. Not a surprise really [...]

In a previous post, I have defined the 7 steps of a robust strategic sourcing methodology (SSM). My intention is now to provide more details about each step. Step 1 – profiling (or qualifying) a Sourcing Group (SG) – comes first: it’s all about understanding the SG characteristics, which is quite an important stage as [...]

Following the closure of Eutilia and convinced about eSourcing tools value, Suez, a leading international industrial utility Group, has launched a RFP in early 2007 to find a substitution solution. Leading solution-providers like Synertrade, BravoSolution, Ariba were invited to reply. Finally, end of March, Suez has decided to go with VerticalNet’s XE Sourcing solution to [...]

Ethical Corporation and Business in the Community announced the launch of The Responsible Business Summit 2007, 9-10th May 2007 in London . This conference is a merger of the annual BITC [...]

Don’t expect to see any new posts in the coming week. Happy man, I’m taking one week off back to France, sea-side, south brittany; there:

Nice huh?! … I shall be back with fresh ideas. Talk to you soon.

Who never dreamt about a place where to find key topics and dates of trade fairs and conferences to come and related to your professional interests? I walked by chance by www.goingtomeet.com, a website where anyone can ‘post an event’ and enabling visitors to search events by keywords. Let’s be honest, the [...]

eProcure & Supply, one of the biggest Trade Fair and Congress for Procurement and Supplier Management in Europe, will welcome some 140 exhibitors (see below the ones present in 2006) and vendors of proven solutions for electronic procurement, from Wednesday to Friday 25-27 April 2007. For any solution-provider – for sure, if any interest [...]

While a growing number of eSourcing technology vendors are outsourcing their originally in-house consulting services to focus on ASP technology services and becoming pure technology vendors, InterSources is one of the very few that has choosen the totally opposite-path since its launch in 2003. Good move indeed, as InterSource is now benefiting from a global [...]