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	<title>Strategic Sourcing Europe &#187; Best Practices</title>
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	<description>An European weblog for Purchasing professionals : eSourcing, eProcurement, eMarketplaces, KPIs, tools and methodology, market information...</description>
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		<title>Top 10 best practices when deploying eProcurement</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2010/06/top-10-best-practices-when-deploying-eprocurement/</link>
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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>Top 15 questions for Supplier Sustainability Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/12/top-15-questions-supplier-sustainability-assessment-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/12/top-15-questions-supplier-sustainability-assessment-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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		<title>Supply Risk in 2009: Top 10 learnings</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/12/top-10-learnings-about-supply-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/12/top-10-learnings-about-supply-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ariba lately published a whitepaper about Supply Risk management. Wide topic indeed, which obviously shouldn&#8217;t be seen as a one-off action but as a continuous effort over time and a board-level matter.  Supply risk emerged strongly  &#8211; as the current financial market turned unsecure &#8211; and  shall stay in CPO&#8217;s minds as the economy will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 best practices to ensure eSourcing adoption</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/6-best-practices-to-ensure-esourcing-adoption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/6-best-practices-to-ensure-esourcing-adoption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eTendering eRFx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Report | White Paper]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse Auction Best practices</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/reverse-auction-best-practices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/reverse-auction-best-practices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>5 Best Practices Toward Contract Compliance</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/5-best-practices-toward-contract-compliance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/5-best-practices-toward-contract-compliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[contract management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Providers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<title>Benchmarking your cost performance against the leading US companies in your Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/benchmarking-your-cost-performance-against-the-leading-us-companies-in-your-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/benchmarking-your-cost-performance-against-the-leading-us-companies-in-your-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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):]]></description>
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		<title>6 critical metrics to cut-down TCO by 10-12%</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/6-critical-metrics-to-cut-down-tco-by-10-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/6-critical-metrics-to-cut-down-tco-by-10-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Methodology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purchasing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spend Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dashboard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.massin.eu/?p=382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leveraging the article &#8220;Dashboard leads global procurement to success&#8221; 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.]]></description>
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		<title>Cool tool for conducting a Purchasing Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/03/cool-tool-for-conducting-a-purchasing-assessment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/03/cool-tool-for-conducting-a-purchasing-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Strategic Sourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next to my previous post, I couldn&#8217;t miss to provide you with a compeling &#8211; 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&#8217;ll discover how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>130 Questions for a Purchasing Performance Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/03/130-questions-for-purchasing-performance-assessment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/03/130-questions-for-purchasing-performance-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[eProcurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[procurement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Purchasing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;current state analysis&#8221; stage by ensuring I&#8217;ll get answers to most of those questions. 1. What is your main means of purchasing office supplies? 2. What application [...]]]></description>
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