Strategic Sourcing Europe

Just for you to know:  I’ll be there, very much excited to get back to the Netherlands where I spent 6 years of my life…and of course to share with several hundreds customers our experience and roadmap for the future… for the Cloud!
If you didn’t register yet, you can do that here.
If you are wondering [...]

I’ve been recently informed of six upcoming conferences – mostly in Europe – on corporate responsibility. Here they are:
1) The Global Reporting Summit
- Celebrating best practice and assessing the landscape of CR reporting around the globe.
- 3–4 March, Berlin. www.ethicalcorp.com/globalreporting
2) Global Anti-corruption, Compliance and Ethics USA 2008
- How to effectively develop and manage [...]

The 12th of Feb, Quadrem and Forrester Research will advice supply chain professionals on how to cope with dirty and inconsistent vendor data practices.
” Amsterdam and Dallas – 4 February 2008 – The Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) and Quadrem International will host an hour-long web seminar that advises supply chain professionals on how to [...]

The concept is not new, but is is now becoming a reality. ProcureTech Live 2007 will be the first online event about Purchasing with a virtual exhibitor hall, web-based conferences and a lounge not to miss networking.
It will take place the 21st of November, on the web. Zycus (leading spend analysis service provider) is behind, [...]

An event for European AP and Procurement Professionals. This event will be presented in English and will take place in September 2007, from the 17th to the 20th at the Crowne Plaza, Brussels, Belgium. To know more or to register, visit this page.
PS for Michael Lamoureux: this event is not yet in your list (my [...]

Ethical Corporation and Business in the Community announced the launch of The Responsible Business Summit 2007, 9-10th May 2007 in London . This conference is a merger of the annual BITC [...]

Who never dreamt about a place where to find key topics and dates of trade fairs and conferences to come and related to your professional interests? I walked by chance by www.goingtomeet.com, a website where anyone can ‘post an event’ and enabling visitors to search events by keywords. Let’s be honest, the [...]

eProcure & Supply, one of the biggest Trade Fair and Congress for Procurement and Supplier Management in Europe, will welcome some 140 exhibitors (see below the ones present in 2006) and vendors of proven solutions for electronic procurement, from Wednesday to Friday 25-27 April 2007. For any solution-provider – for sure, if any interest [...]

The Ethical Sourcing Forum 2007 “Beyond Tomorrow: CSR & Supply Chain” will take place in April 19-20, 2007 in Philadelphia, USA.
If you are interested in ethical procurement or supply chains, then you should register (…).
The Ethical Sourcing Forum is the perfect place to “shop” for new ideas and options to implement or re-calibrate your [...]

eWorld Purchasing & Supply is the UK’s most comprehensive event for the online B2B trading community.
The two day business forum is organised in association with The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), The Hackett Group and the National eProcurement Project.
Here is the program:
9.30am-10.00am
KEYNOTE:
The Habits of Highly Successful [...]

“Spend Analysis, A European perspective”. That’s the official title for this one hour free webcast sponsored by one (THE?) spend-analytics market leader Zicus, and below is a short description of the topics to be covered:
“In this one hour long webcast, one of the leading thought leaders in the Spend Management sector Andrew Bartels, VP and [...]

Events in Europe:

Procurecon 2007 – The 10th Pan-European Strategic Sourcing Event (Europe’s biggest procurement event – 5/8 November 2007 – Hotel le Plaza – Brussels)
Procurecon Indirect 2007(Europe first ever indirect procurement event – 24/25 April 2007 – Amsterdam)
Developing Sustainable Procurement Strategies for Oil and Gas (conference 26/27 March 2007 – Aberdeen UK)

News – Press releases:

IBM [...]

You may know the Sourcing Innovation blog from Michael Lamoureux but what about his Sourcing Resource Guide page and its 100 TOP links related to procurement or sourcing? You will find there an impressive list of links to analyst group, publication, white paper, events, vendor and blogger websites (mostly from US). If the look and [...]

Following are 7 training or conference events organised – mainly in UK – in November 2006:
Promoting Procurement in Wales
28 November The Quality Hotel, Cardiff,
ProcureCon 2006
6-9 November 2006 Hotel Le Plaza Brussels,
Executive Decisions MasterClass
15 November 2006 London £579/£699,
Energy – commodity buying in a volatile environment
1 November 2006 London £396/£440,
Buying Catering Services
14 November 2006 Sheffield £396/£440
Buying Corporate [...]