Strategic Sourcing Europe

The Doctor made it again: Michael Lamoureux from the Sourcing Innovation Blog launched another cross-blog series on a thrilling item – The Future of Sourcing – and succeeded to get almost a dozen of SME (Subject Matter Expert) bloggers to post their POV (point of view) on this bottomless topic. How could I miss contributing [...]

You can generate great savings and reach valuable benefits thanks to a vehicle tracking system, also called telematics. The return on investment is quick: Amatics, a key player in UK, reported that one of its customer, National Grid Gas plc, has saved the full five-year cost of the system within the first year and is [...]

This has nothing to see with procurement, although I can imagine it could be useful to present a product online to potential buyers. What? Adding, with no tags and manual work, 3D information to pictures. Yes, looks weird but… 2 applications are currently making some viral-marketing-buzz about their future capabilities (not even yet in beta). [...]

Solectron Corporation, founded in 1977, is a leading global provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and integrated supply chain solutions. Solectron serves the world’s most innovative companies in industries that rely on high-tech electronics. Solectron’s 50,000 employees have a hand in designing, making and servicing products that people around the world rely on every day: PC’s, [...]

Though the impact of sustainable development in the supply chain and procurement has been on HEC radar screen for already 4 years, the french HEC School of management has decided to expand their research with the support of Ariba – duly represented by an eProcurement/eSourcing pioneer Pierre Francois Thaler, currently director of managed procurement services [...]

AMR Reviews the Spend Visibility Landscape | spend analytic vendors are making progress; from Jason Busch Purchasing News Roundup | nice list of links from ‘purchasing blog’. The one I enjoyed the most is Entrepreneurial Culture Why European economies lag behind the U.S. (from Mr. Phelps, a professor at Columbia University ; 2006 Nobel Laureate [...]

Jack Ma (Alibaba CEO) success story, reviewed in this article from Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop found there, on International Herald Tribune website, nicely illustrate my post of yesterday about the impact of globalisation on Supply Chain Management: “Alibaba and Taobao have been much more successful in China than their competitors because they were able to cater their services specifically for the China [...]

Entering in a new year is a priviledged moment to take good resolutions. But which ones? That is the question (!). To help, I’ve listed below 27 purchasing leading practices that might give you some new bright ideas. Enjoy, and why not to let me know the ones you’ve pick-up (which are not necessarily the [...]

7 ‘cool-quotes’ extracted from the Harvard Business Review (August 2002) about “How do you boost an organization creative potential?”. Reading them Ithough they applied quite well to Sourcing and Procurement professionals and strategic partners where innovation and creativity is key: Make it the norm – Craig Wynett GM P&G Don’t Fear Failure – Michael Dell, [...]

The office for official publication of the European communities is a publishing house whose multicultural and multilingual orientation makes it unique. Anyone can consult uits book catalogue at the EU bookshop, the online bookshop for all official publications of the European Union. Many publications can be downloaded free as PDF documents. I’ve browsed the EU [...]

A long time ago (5 years!) I was trying to sell eutilia concept and services (B2B procurement SaaS) to a french CAC40 multinational. At the end of the first and unique 1 hour meeting I got with some key executives of this company, closed by the usual “well, great, let us some time to think [...]