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	<title>Strategic Sourcing Europe &#187; contract management</title>
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		<title>5 Best Practices Toward Contract Compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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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>Contract Life-Cycle Management Demand Takes Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what you can read in the latest analysis from the Forrester, August 2007, Andrew Bartels following the interviews of 21 &#8216;contract management&#8217; vendor companies, including Accruent, Ariba, CMA Contiki, Comergent, Emptoris, I-many, Model N, Nextance, Omniware, Open Text, Oracle, Procuri, SAP, Selectica, Symfact, and Upside Software, as well as others that have been acquired. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 questions when assessing a contract pricing agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are about to renew a contract or even better in your way for running a strategic sourcing methodology, you&#8217;ll have to assess the strenghtes and weaknesses of your current contract not only from a specification perspective but as well from a pricing perspective. Below are my top 10 pricing-related questions to be answered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Procurement-contract risks require closer management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In partnership with APICS, the Association for Operations Management, Protiviti recently conducted a focused and extensive study of procurement contracting and related contract management practices and risks. The conclusion is that a large proportion of organizations need to improve the management of their procurement contract risks and opportunities. The report provides recommendations. The graph below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why did Synertrade turn mute?</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2007/01/why-did-synertrade-turned-mute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the merger of Synerdeal and Trade2B into Synertrade(? &#8211; question mark, yes, because when you look at the Management team&#8230;it looks more like an acquisition from the Germans) , the less one can say is that Synertrade stayed very quiet and low profile, which is not a positive sign indeed: no press release since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Contract Management Vendors</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2006/11/top-10-contract-management-vendors-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a quaterly basis, Forrester is issuing a leading-vendor ranking on several subjects and more specifically about contract management, an important software piece in the e-sourcing and e-procument battlefield. Those leaders, eager to let it know are providing those reports on their website. So, enjoy reading this one, found on Oracle site, Top 10 Contract [...]]]></description>
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