Strategic Sourcing Europe

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 [...]

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. [...]

I don’t know why, but I got the feeling Open Source applications will take-off more and more. Currently, it is still difficult to find a lot of alternative or ‘best of breed’ open source applications covering eSourcing. I am ready to bet it will change. Anyway, I was searching for this kind of stuff and [...]

Most of the big eProcurement players are struggling for critical mass and attractive pricing. Very few are already cash positive and if so, they have still a long way ahead to recover their initial investment. Those company might not appreciate so much this entrepreurial open source pitch from Dave Stephen, CEO and co-founder of COUPA. [...]

More and more business software are available Open Source. I found this one, named TenderSystem, for e-Tendering and e-Procurement. For sure, I’ll make a trial soon and report my findings here. ” TenderSystem is an Internet based electronic tendering system to source, award and manage the total procurement process. This tried and tested technology leverages [...]