Strategic Sourcing Europe

At last! To be honest, it took me quite a while to find a good and relevant CSR self-assessment questionnaire, yes but available free online as well. That surprises me actually: It is such a buzz and so many non-profit-associations are sponsoring CSR that I thought I would find a dozen of them easily. Anyway. That’s a [...]

23 new opportunities, this time in the logistic and distribution field, on the graph below.

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16 ideas to improve the way you buy chemicals, on the exhibit attached.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) just released the outcome of their new survey (2007) about outsourcing, based on US/UK client mainly . Straightforward, clear, worth reading I feel. If the tag-line is nothing surprising at all (we all recognise that collaboration is more powerful than simple ordering), the dimensions of the analysis executed by Pat McArdle and his [...]

There is an increasing need for corporate responsibility monitoring and management. Everywhere, more and more, it will become a mandatory-standard. Vigeo understood that some time ago and was founded as a limited company under the French law in 2002 and already expanded in Belgium, Morocco and Italy. I guess Vigeo won’t stop there. Initially, Vigeo [...]

I’ve been issuing posts so far about outsourcing procurement tasks or goods, but do you know that you can as well outsource part of you activities to india,  as easy as buying online? What I am talking about is not new but it looks that the momentum is coming-up now. World is starting to tame [...]

Do you know WallStrip, an helarious stock-pop podcast series with a charming speaker, Lindsay campbell? I love it and warmly invite you to enjoy it before it is too late: according to some rumors, the less than 1 year-old daily-series has been sold to CBS News for 5M$-ish.

15 Opportunities listed there. Feel free to comment and report other good potentials.

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In his recent public press release the 10th of May, Alain Andreoli (CEO of CC-Hubwoo) reported that: “Consolidated revenues for the first quarter were 8.0 million euros, in line with the Group’s expectations. On a constant exchange basis, revenues for the first quarter were flat versus 2006. The company has previously announced that it expects [...]

This is the amazing overall result of a serious security-oriented study commissioned by enterprise rights management company  Liquid Machines. Conducted online, more than 900 professionals, with 84% from the US, were polled over a one-month period earlier this year. 
Sharon Gaudin, from the InformationWeek , reviewed the study and wrote a full article about it. Below [...]

23 key considerations when reviewing your way of buying Electricity are listed on the graph below.

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I’ve listed 40 opportunities on the graph below.

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22 Opportunities listed on the graph below.

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To me, Spend Analysis is a critical area to get under control and where a good-size company should invest in. I’ve mentioned it several times and lately in a post I wrote on Michael Lamoureux request. Early this month, Purchasing.com issued a nice and 3-part series “The ABC of Spend Analysis”:
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