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		<title>Ariba Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Quadrem</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2010/11/ariba-announces-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-quadrem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; November 18, 2010 &#8211; Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA), the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions, today announced that it has signed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 best practices when deploying eProcurement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a table I build-up to create &#8216;client&#8217; awareness on eProcurement deployment challenges and introduce the &#8216;How to implement and deploy eProcurement&#8221;: 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capgemini acquires IBX</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2010/02/capgemini-acquires-ibx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<title>You want to receive new business Opportunities?</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/you-want-to-receive-new-business-opportunities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/you-want-to-receive-new-business-opportunities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finding Contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finding Suppliers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you try the Ariba Network, a leading professional B2B supplier network supported by Ariba&#8217;s technology? Ariba Supplier Network at a Glance $100 billion in annual transactions 1.8 million monthly PO&#8217;s Transactions in 80 currencies 80 million catalog items Any feedback would be appreciated]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Sourcing Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/10/strategic-sourcing-opportunities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/10/strategic-sourcing-opportunities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Browsing the content of this blog as anyone could do, I came to the conclusion that a recap&#8217; of  the 10 articles I posted about &#8216;strategic sourcing opportunities by commodity&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hubwoo tightens its belt</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/04/hubwoo-tightens-its-belt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s future looks relies on the confirmation of its successful 2008 track [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIPS POV on eSourcing &amp; eProcurement</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/02/cips-pov-on-esourcing-eprocurement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/02/cips-pov-on-esourcing-eprocurement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following this link: The impact of e-purchasing on supply chain management , you&#8217;ll get a robust definition of eSourcing and eProcurement &#8211; a definition provided by CIPS -  as well as &#8216;still valid&#8217; point of view (POV) on the impact of &#8216;e&#8217; upon purchasing and supply management activities&#8230; Actually it looks like it&#8217;s not such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can Marketplaces improve SCM efficiencies</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2008/12/how-can-marketplaces-improve-scm-efficiencies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2008/12/how-can-marketplaces-improve-scm-efficiencies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although eMarketplaces&#8217; 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 &#8220;how to&#8221;. 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BPO agreement between Quadrem and SAP</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2008/08/bpo-agreement-between-quadrem-and-sap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2008/08/bpo-agreement-between-quadrem-and-sap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hubwoo hangs on</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2008/03/hubwoo-hangs-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my latest post about cc-hubwoo, now rebranded back to Hubwoo with a new logo, I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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