Strategic Sourcing Europe

Press Release from Ariba website here Deal will expand depth and breadth of Ariba Network creating additional value for buyers and sellers around the world. SUNNYVALE, Calif., and AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – November 18, 2010 – Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA), the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions, today announced that it has signed a [...]

This is a table I build-up to create ‘client’ awareness on eProcurement deployment challenges and introduce the ‘How to implement and deploy eProcurement”: It is all about Value Enablement, Awareness of eProcurement benefits per category of supplies,  change management efforts and logic (quick wins, communication, impact analysis, gap awareness, training, coaching, supporting), Awareness of the [...]

The news came out yesterday: Capgemini Group today announced its acquisition of on-demand purchasing solutions provider IBX and with it, the availability of the industry’s first global end-to-end, Procurement-as-a-Service offering. Having collaborated together since summer 2009, Capgemini and IBX decided to join forces in order to drive development of a new global procurement service offering and further expand the addressable market for IBX’s best-in-class technology

Did you try the Ariba Network, a leading professional B2B supplier network supported by Ariba’s technology? Ariba Supplier Network at a Glance $100 billion in annual transactions 1.8 million monthly PO’s Transactions in 80 currencies 80 million catalog items Any feedback would be appreciated

Browsing the content of this blog as anyone could do, I came to the conclusion that a recap’ of  the 10 articles I posted about ‘strategic sourcing opportunities by commodity’ could be useful. Hoping this helps. Strategic Sourcing Opportunities Part I: Stationary Strategic Sourcing Opportunities Part II: Fax Machines Strategic Sourcing Opportunities Part III: Travel [...]

In its latest press release (March 09) Hubwoo announced and detailed following taglines: 2008 Results: Revenue €31.8M, EBITDA -€4.6M, Net earnings -€10M Greg Mark to replace Mark Williams as CEO Q1’09 outlook of €9M revenue and EBITDA positive confirmed Reading between the lines, Hubwoo’s future looks relies on the confirmation of its successful 2008 track [...]

Following this link: The impact of e-purchasing on supply chain management , you’ll get a robust definition of eSourcing and eProcurement – a definition provided by CIPS -  as well as ‘still valid’ point of view (POV) on the impact of ‘e’ upon purchasing and supply management activities… Actually it looks like it’s not such [...]

Although eMarketplaces’ hype is gone and their sky-high business-models as well, the fantastic added-value related to the settlement of those structures is still valid, the unsolved issue being “how to”. Anyway, my purpose is not to answer this question but to underline, through the graph below, how eMarketplaces can improve SCM (Supply Chain Management) efficiencies bringing additional visibility [...]

I’ve just been informed by PAA (Peter Arnold Associates), a marketing service provider selected by Quadrem, that a BPO agreement for SRM, between SAP and Quadrem, will be officially press-released early next week. Below is the sales-pitch I received. Reading the article, you might miss, as I do, some information and a case study to [...]

Following my latest post about cc-hubwoo, now rebranded back to Hubwoo with a new logo, I’ve had the opportunity to meet Mark Williams (CEO) and Xavier Lablancherie (CMO) a month ago and discuss about the eP2P (electronic Purchase to Pay) Business. My latest and controversial posts about Hubwoo were boldly underlining difficulties and unclarity which [...]

The 12th of Feb, Quadrem and Forrester Research will advice supply chain professionals on how to cope with dirty and inconsistent vendor data practices. ” Amsterdam and Dallas – 4 February 2008 – The Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) and Quadrem International will host an hour-long web seminar that advises supply chain professionals on how [...]

” BravoSolution has registered impressive organic revenue growth for its entire six-year history. Profitable since 2004, BravoSolution has averaged 55% annual turnover growth since inception, and brings a culture of aggressive growth to its new BravoSolution US operations. In addition to impressive independent growth, BravoSolution enjoys the strong financial backing of its parent company, Italcementi, [...]

Long time ago (…), when I was still heading Eutilia NV, I got a call from Anne Engström and Esmail Salehi-Sangari. They were observing that “ While large capital investments were made in numerous B2B e-marketplace initiatives, a significant number of these firms ended up going bankrupt. Today, many e-marketplaces are still struggling to survive and [...]

Today, cc-hubwoo announced its 07Q4 results: 32,6M€ revenues, which means 1,8% growth, almost none. Not surprisingly, stocks went down by 3,95%. shall it be reminded that Alain Andreoli’s plan for 2007 was to reach 44M€ (see my post comparing cc-hubwoo and IBX). cc-hubwoo being far behind its objectives and its growth being almost nil, even [...]