Strategic Sourcing Europe

There is not A way to make a Supplier Scorecard and to measure & monitor your supplier performance, quality and cost profile. If you are looking for some bright ideas to build-up a supplier scorecard for your company, those  links might be useful:
1) The description of SABRe’ supplier scorecards | release 7 (Supplier Advanced Business [...]

The following 9 CPOs have been selected by www.Purchasing.com for its second annual audiocast series:

Kurt Doelling, Sun Microsystems
Rick Jacobs, Eaton Corp.
Anthony Santiago, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Gregg Brandyberry, GlaxoSmithKline
Scott Searls, Alltel Wireless
Brent Shinall, Helix Energy Solutions
Rick Hughes, Proctor & Gamble
Brad Holcomb, Dean Foods Co.’s Dairy Group
Greg Shoemaker, Hewlett-Packard

Each of them [...]

You can generate great savings and reach valuable benefits thanks to a vehicle tracking system, also called telematics. The return on investment is quick: Amatics, a key player in UK, reported that one of its customer, National Grid Gas plc, has saved the full five-year cost of the system within the first year and is [...]

I discovered Openbravo today. Could anyone enlight me about this open source software and company?
I found out that Red Herring has selected Openbravo as a winner of Red Herring 100 Europe 2007, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) each year.

Openbravo is [...]

In this short 2 page-document available at ISM and written by S. Gordon (Emptoris) you be reminded the 6 major benefits coming from supplier evaluation:

Increase performance visibility,
Uncover and remove hidden waste and cost drivers in the supply chain,
Leverage the supply base,
Align customer and supplier business practices,
Mitigate risk,
Improve supplier performance,

 …and the barriers/challenges of the 5 methods you can [...]

The concept is not new, but is is now becoming a reality. ProcureTech Live 2007 will be the first online event about Purchasing with a virtual exhibitor hall, web-based conferences and a lounge not to miss networking.
It will take place the 21st of November, on the web. Zycus (leading spend analysis service provider) is behind, [...]

That’s what you can read in the latest analysis from the Forrester, August 2007, Andrew Bartels following the interviews of 21 ‘contract management’ vendor companies, including Accruent, Ariba, CMA Contiki, Comergent, Emptoris, I-many, Model N, Nextance, Omniware, Open Text, Oracle, Procuri, SAP, Selectica, Symfact, and Upside Software, as well as others that have been acquired.
From [...]

Although you never know what you will fall-down on, it’s always good to hang-around on the web and browse pages as keywords pop-up in your mind. I just found this nice and free powerpoint presentation from the Forrester, April 2007 which supported a webex conference entitled “eProcurement Vendors You Should Be Considering” and presented by [...]

Bravosolution (IT), a leading eSourcing player in Europe – at least – announced, end of July, the acquisition of Mobile Workers (FR), a specialist in spend analysis solutions.  You can read the  official press release here.
I personally think it is a great move:

Spend Analysis solution is a powerful tool enabling impressive savings through global sourcing/negotiation. [...]

So far, I was gladly using Roboform to access with one click to my 100 of websites needing an authentication code to get in. But, when it comes to change your computer or to use several computers (home, office, friends…), then what a hell: either you have to buy another licence of roboform (25$-ish) and duplicate [...]

ESCO Corporation is a global group of companies that manufactures engineered metal parts and components for industrial applications. You will find here a pdf form that ESCO is using to evaluate its key suppliers. Simple but quite extensive. It might gives you good new ideas if you have any plan to monitor more closely your [...]

Aberdeen Supply Management research is undertaking a new survey about the procurement of marketing materials and services. I received the following notice today:
Corporate spend around marketing (including print, marketing and advertising media and services) is significant within organizations, driving efforts to reduce costs in this complex category of spend. Approximately 40% of enterprises previously reported having [...]

End of July, cc-hubwoo released an update on its midyear results. You can find it here but only in french for the moment. From my perspective, the article unveils the following key points:
- 15,9 Meuros Revenue for H1. In line with cc-hubwoo BP, according to thisPress Release. To be honest, I’m quite surprised as the revenue target for [...]

An event for European AP and Procurement Professionals. This event will be presented in English and will take place in September 2007, from the 17th to the 20th at the Crowne Plaza, Brussels, Belgium. To know more or to register, visit this page.
PS for Michael Lamoureux: this event is not yet in your list (my [...]