Strategic Sourcing Europe

… Infested by removal boxes all around me, I’ll definitly have to put SS|E on hold for some days. Indeed, after 5 years and a 1/2 enjoying the Netherlands, it is time for me to get back home. So long and in the meantime, just enjoy the Dutch sun on the IJsselmeer Dam’s highway…

As English,Dutch or Spanish are not my mother tong, I regularly need to get help and support from an online translation tool to capture the essence of some expressions or words I stumble on. So far, I’ve been happily using babelfish from altavista. Quick and straightforward for sentence translation, it is not precise enough at [...]

If you take a step back and look at the evolution of enterprise relationships in the last years, you’ll notice how much Outsourcing has grown in all industrial sectors and became a common best practice. Internet based technlogies and information-sharing platform did certainly contributes to this gusto, enabling an increased operational and realtime visibility on [...]

cc-hubwoo. IBX. No need to present those 2 European companies, focused on the same topic (eSourcing and eProcurement) but not yet really on the same geography. Those 2 companies are without any doubt leading the European eProcurement market – at least with revenues hitting EUR 30+ millions a year. Following a similar move (acquisition) lately [...]

Potential initiatives to improve the way you buy Printing are written on the graph below. Please click on the above-thumbnail to read it.

Potential appropriate initiatives to improve the way you buy MRO are unveiled on the graph below. Please click on the above-thumbnail to read it.

Kirkman. Kirkman Company to be precise. Interpellating name, don’t you think? No, don’t be wrong, this is nothing related to the Start Treck series or James Kirk’s adventures, sorry for the fans. Nothing related neither to the Scottish Church (i.e. the english root meaning of Kirk). So what, huh? Here is the explanation: “The name [...]

Which eSourcing vendor is the most popular, enjoying the highest online traffic? I’ve decided to look at Alexa – for a second time – and compare most well known eSourcing vendors’ traffic ranking. Below is the outcome. You have to be aware that some of those Vendors have different platforms available for their customers instead [...]

“SME toolkit” is a website dedicated to SMEs. It is a project of the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. the SME Toolkit offers free business management information and training for small businesses / small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and how-to articles on accounting and finance, business planning, human resources (HR), [...]

I’ve fished this news fresh from today. It has been posted here on cc-hubwoo website. The news went fast around as I found it initially on SpendMatters a couple of hours ago, thanks to Jason Busch. Before sharing some of my feelings and first thoughts on the face of it, let me remind you cc-hubwoo’s [...]

Are you still ignoring who Achilles Group is? Of course not! Indeed, a ~30M€ revenue and worldwide leading provider of Supplier Management Information (supplier pre-qualification databases). Achilles’ supplier management schemes speeds up the sourcing & procurement cycle while promoting corporate social responsibility. Achilles’ main weakness is aligned on its key strength, this strength which enabled [...]

Alibaba, the world’s largest online B2B marketplace for global and domestic China trade with over 20 million registered members in more than 200 countries and territories, the famous company founded by Jack Ma 7 years ago expects total revenue to hit US$1.25 billion by 2009. The 1999′s 18-man-startup already reached US$100 million in the first [...]

Supplier Enablement is one of my favorite topic. To my eyes, it goes much beyond a deployment of a e-catalogue-based procurement-process and ‘flirt’ with the ‘good-old-magic’ “plug and play extended-enterprise” concept, which is the end-game of successful B2B ASP/SAAS applications. Andrew Bartolini, research director at Aberdeen, just released a new report about Supplier Enablement (with [...]

I got the news directly from Kay Bayen (EIPM) something like 2 weeks ago.  If you want to participate, just go there: http://eipm.socratesonline.com/salary/. You’ll be able to compare your salary with 2000 respondents and benchmark it through different criteria: industry, age, job position, geographic zone, education level etc. Enjoy and many thanks to Kay