Strategic Sourcing Europe

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 [...]

Browsing the content of this blog as anyone could do, I came to the conclusion that a recap’ of  the 10 articles I posted about ‘strategic sourcing opportunities by commodity’ 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 [...]

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’s future looks relies on the confirmation of its successful 2008 track [...]

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 to [...]

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 [...]

A nice way to represent what Supplier Relationship Management encompasses. Click the graph to expand.

Right, it’s only my point of view. Anyone can think differently and believe that the value of the merger lies on the synergies of the 2 companies, but I don’t myself, motivated by following arguments: – The functional coverage of the 2 apps offered by Ariba and Procuri is more or less similar, – The [...]

I discovered Openbravo today. Could anyone enlight me about this open source software and company? I found out that Red Herring has selected Openbravo as a winner of Red Herring 100 Europe 2007, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) each year. [...]

Although you never know what you will fall-down on, it’s always good to hang-around on the web and browse pages as keywords pop-up in your mind. I just found this nice and free powerpoint presentation from the Forrester, April 2007 which supported a webex conference entitled “eProcurement Vendors You Should Be Considering” and presented by [...]

End of July, cc-hubwoo released an update on its midyear results. You can find it here but only in french for the moment. From my perspective, the article unveils the following key points: – 15,9 Meuros Revenue for H1. In line with cc-hubwoo BP, according to thisPress Release. To be honest, I’m quite surprised as the revenue target [...]

You can read below the article published by BUSINESS WIRE and announcing the merger I releaved to you a couple of weeks ago on this blog: CORRECTING and REPLACING Supply Chain Leaders CorMine and Perfect Commerce Announce Merger Newly Combined Company Brings Customers World-Class SaaS Sourcing and Procurement Solutions; Drives Efficiencies and Cost-Savings that Outpace [...]

cc-hubwoo. IBX. No need to present those 2 European companies, focused on the same topic (eSourcing and eProcurement) but not yet really on the same geography. Those 2 companies are without any doubt leading the European eProcurement market – at least with revenues hitting EUR 30+ millions a year. Following a similar move (acquisition) lately [...]