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.
Below is the the list of the top 20 Procurement-related websites identified by CIPSA (CIPS Australia – original source-page is here). I’m proud to see that I’m in, nearby Sourcing Innovation blog, Spend Matters, Supply Excellence…
PwC is proposing an online tool to benchmark a purchasing function through 39 criteria. Collecting data – to complete this benchmark – is announced to require 4 to 6 hours. This benchmarking tool is part of PwC’s Global Best Practices Knowledge base.
Compare performance with other companies by using this quantitative diagnostic tool created to evaluate [...]
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 [...]
Leveraging the article “Dashboard leads global procurement to success” from Purchasing.com, think about using those 6 obvious KPIs to generate 10-12% savings on appropriate direct commodities:
Delivery lead time,
Inventory days,
Supplier count
Part shortage,
Price reduction,
ppm (parts per million) defect levels per part.
Below are some interesting links providing screenshots of Purchasing Management Dashboards (Sourcing, Procurement, Commodities…) as well as KPIs descriptions.
Commodity Supplier Management Dashboard | Purchasing Dashboard
Procurement Management Dashboard | Purchasing KPI Dashboard
Purchasing KPIs for Dashboard and Reporting – 1
Management Dashboard
Dashboard Purchasing KPIs – 2
I take advantage of this group-picture taken some days ago with some Capgemini fellows from all over the world at the famous and inspiring Capgemini training center “Les Fontaines” near Paris (France), to wish a merry Christmas and Happy new year to all my blog readers and especially to my 350+ regular!
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 [...]
There is not A way to make a Supplier Scorecard and to measure & monitor your supplier performance, quality and cost profile. If you are looking for some bright ideas to build-up a supplier scorecard for your company, those links might be useful:
1) The description of SABRe’ supplier scorecards | release 7 (Supplier Advanced Business [...]
The following 9 CPOs have been selected by www.Purchasing.com for its second annual audiocast series:
Kurt Doelling, Sun Microsystems
Rick Jacobs, Eaton Corp.
Anthony Santiago, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Gregg Brandyberry, GlaxoSmithKline
Scott Searls, Alltel Wireless
Brent Shinall, Helix Energy Solutions
Rick Hughes, Proctor & Gamble
Brad Holcomb, Dean Foods Co.’s Dairy Group
Greg Shoemaker, Hewlett-Packard
Each of them [...]
Would OGC intend to be the reference in the purchasing arena, wouldn’t OGC act differently: OGC just launches an amazing and fair concept with ’supplier complaints team’, giving its suppliers the possibility to complain about its relationship with a contracting governmental authority. The process is straightforward with just an online form to fill.
You can read more [...]
Are you still ignoring who Achilles Group is? Of course not! Indeed, a ~30M€ revenue and worldwide leading provider of Supplier Management Information (supplier pre-qualification databases). Achilles’ supplier management schemes speeds up the sourcing & procurement cycle while promoting corporate social responsibility. Achilles’ main weakness is aligned on its key strength, this strength which [...]
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