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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Another good 20 page white-paper from SAP © 2006 describing 6 easy-to-use best practices and a couple of tips to support successful adoption of an eSourcing solution. Not rocket science, just basic change-management key success factors used in any transformation project but applied to eSourcing: Deming PDCA, Simplicity, quick wins and communication…what else?
In 2006 SAP has issued a white paper about reverse auction best practices. You can find it now on its knowledge hub. Here you go. You will learn the essential, i.e. when to use RFx and reverse auctions, how to sell auctions to internal stakeholders, how to get supplier buy-in, how to choose the right auction settings and to run an auction.
Zycus issued in last September 2009 an article titled “5 Best Practices Toward Contract Compliance”. In there, You’ll learn about what’s key when looking after contract compliance: Including clauses sticking the contract to market conditions, defining the right contract metrics, not forgetting auditing the standardized contract management processes you should have put in place
Comparing your performance to your peers in your industry is essential to understand how good you are. Many ways to do so and hereby is another one I just identified, focused on ‘Cost Performance’, reading the article “In Pursuit of a Cutting Edge” published on CFO.com. You” be able to compare your company performance against leading US players in following markets (link brings you directly to an excel tool):
Leveraging the article “Dashboard leads global procurement to success” from Purchasing.com, think about using those 6 obvious KPIs to generate 10-12% savings on appropriate direct commodities:
Delivery lead time,
Inventory days,
Supplier count
Part shortage,
Price reduction,
ppm (parts per million) defect levels per part.
Next to my previous post, I couldn’t miss to provide you with a compeling – although blank -and well structured template supporting the execution and the reporting of a Purchasing Assessment Assignment. A cool tool, very useful as well for benchmarking with best-in-class practices.
You can download this 52 page document here: sourcing-assessment.pdf
You’ll discover how to:
Make [...]
Following is an indicative framework of 130 useful questions when assessing or benchmarking Purchasing processes and organisation performance. When on a consulting assignment, I used to design the “current state analysis” stage by ensuring I’ll get answers to most of those questions.
1. What is your main means of purchasing office supplies?
2. What application do you currently utilize [...]
Find attached here how-to-write-an-rfp-s, an AT-Kearney POV and 5 tips to write an RFP. Nothing revolutionary in this article published in june 2006 but it is always good to come back to basics with ATK.
“An Achievable Approach to Master Data Management” is a FREE one-hour Web video featuring Forrester Research and hosted by the Institute of Supply Management (ISM), delivered the 12th of February.
This webinar is tailored for supply chain professionals evaluating how to cope with dirty and inconsistent vendor data. Take an hour to hear Forrester’s latest research [...]
The Doctor made it again: Michael Lamoureux from the Sourcing Innovation Blog launched another cross-blog series on a thrilling item – The Future of Sourcing – and succeeded to get almost a dozen of SME (Subject Matter Expert) bloggers to post their POV (point of view) on this bottomless topic. How could I miss [...]
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 [...]
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