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 [...]
Enporion was initially a vertical eMarketplace, founded by 7 major US Utility companies ( Allegheny Energy Inc., Allete, Ameren Corporation, CMS Energy Corporation, KeySpan Corporation, PPL Corporation and UGI Corporation ) supposed to have enough business traction to make it happen. As we all know now, time for vertical eMarketplace was not yet there and quite early actualy, George Gordon, CEO and Chairman of the company took the right decision to bend the model and turn Enporion as a more general eSupply-Chain enabler (Source to Pay) for all industries, and with a private own technology to mitigate costs and maximize agility.
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?
2 and 3 years ago, I did this exercice already; comparing the online footprint of leading Spend Management Solution vendors with Alexa. You’ll find below the update 2009 including for the first time Quadrem, Zycus, Hubwoo and MFG as I appreciate them belonging to the leading players. At the very bottom you’ll get additional information [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s not done yet but an official agreement has been achieved. The news is rather unexpected as fully undisclosed so far. I will comment later on.
Here is the press release.
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 [...]
Last month, I’ve been delighted to meet for the first time the french Executive Manager of Synertrade, Patrick Chabannes, following online exchanges we had about Synertrade’s lack of communication some times ago. We got an extensive and pleasant conversation sharing our views on the eSourcing market, its maturity, its contradictions, and of course about Synertrade [...]
” 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, [...]
A good and detailed guidance note from the NePP (National e-Procurement Project) written in 2004 but still valuable. You can download it here: NePP eAuctions.
You will learn:
- how to get started,
- what are the challenge,
- where to get more information
The structure of this document is:
Section 1 contains a definition of e-auctions;
Section 2 explains how [...]
A nice way to represent what Supplier Relationship Management encompasses. Click the graph to expand.
“Sho(pping) time!” After Mobile Worker, it’s Verticalnet’s turn to loose its independence, being in the process of being acquired by BravoSolution, an Italcimenti’s subsidiary. The acquisition will give birth to a EUR40 Million Spend Management Solutions provider, with good presence in US and Europe. Another good move from BravoSolution, as the cost of the [...]
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