Dec 11

Late July 09, Wal-Mart announced plans to develop a worldwide sustainable product index, which is expected to lead to higher quality, lower costs and measure the sustainability of products and help customers, live better in the 21st century. This index will be build out of a 3 steps program, starting by the assessment of their 100 000 supplier base with a Supplier Sustainability Assessment.

Dec 10

Ariba lately published a whitepaper about Supply Risk management. Wide topic indeed, which obviously shouldn’t be seen as a one-off action but as a continuous effort over time and a board-level matter.  Supply risk emerged strongly  – as the current financial market turned unsecure – and  shall stay in CPO’s minds as the economy will [...]

Dec 08

Enporion, now a veteran-owned company…

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Enporion was initially a vertical eMarketplace, founded by 7 major US Utility companies ( Allegheny Energy Inc., Allete, Ameren Corporation, CMS Energy Corporation, KeySpan Corporation, PPL Corporation and UGI Corporation ) supposed to have enough business traction to make it happen. As we all know now, time for vertical eMarketplace was not yet there and quite early actualy, George Gordon, CEO and Chairman of the company took the right decision to bend the model and turn Enporion as a more general eSupply-Chain enabler (Source to Pay) for all industries, and with a private own technology to mitigate costs and maximize agility.

Dec 08

How do you calculate your savings performance? This is a recurring question and I found a nice thread on linkedin “Savings performance calculation”.