Dec 27

A Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) graph

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A nice way to represent what Supplier Relationship Management encompasses. Click the graph to expand.

Dec 25

Merry Christmas & Happy new year 2008!

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I take advantage of this group-picture taken some days ago with some Capgemini fellows from all over the world at the famous and inspiring Capgemini training center “Les Fontaines” near Paris (France), to wish a merry Christmas and Happy new year to all my blog readers and especially to my 350+ regular!

Dec 24

Browsing for eProcurement news, I found the last Forrester Wave (07Q2) on BasWare website (here) , discovering by the way the sensational coming-out of BasWare which belongs nowadays amongst the happy few eProcurement market leaders.

Funny enough, I found back the eProcurement Forrester Wave from 04Q4. As you can see, Commerce One was already gone [...]

Dec 21

Sustainable Procurement is a top 3 priority for European CPOs

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A European survey 2007 on “Responsible Purchasing” (involving 300 CPO) has just been released, published by HEC Business School, EcoVadis and Ariba. The objective of the survey was (read my former post) to identify the ‘tools’ which will help the better an organization to make Sustainable Procurement practices a reality. The report is worth [...]

Dec 19

IBX undisclosed its 07Q4 newsletter and confirmed its ambition to reach 34M€ revenue at year-end, as forecasted initially. Wow, this is a great, impressive and steady two-digit growth rate for 2007. Have a look at the graph below, it might speak to you more than any word.

On the other side and in the meantime (sept. [...]

Dec 11

7 months ago from now I was writing on this blog “Even a ‘loose-partnership’ like Hubwoo – Procuri doesn’t make sense to me: interlocutors for e-Procurement are not the same as interlocutors for eSourcing and in general, nobody likes to hear they have to use a specific application here because they have this other application [...]