Strategic Sourcing Europe

In his recent public press release the 10th of May, Alain Andreoli (CEO of CC-Hubwoo) reported that: “Consolidated revenues for the first quarter were 8.0 million euros, in line with the Group’s expectations. On a constant exchange basis, revenues for the first quarter were flat versus 2006. The company has previously announced that it expects [...]

Based on my experience – of course! – but also on an excellent paper written in 2000 by Tim Duffie’s (UPS) about the difference between sourcing AND strategic sourcing and following the recent post of David Bush ‘Strategic Sourcing Success Factors‘, you will find on this post what I consider as the top 10 Strategic [...]

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The very first stage to go through when conducting a Strategic Sourcing program is to define or refine which items are to be included in a Sourcing Group. It is the first of 4 analysis to be performed when ‘profiling a Sourcing Group‘ (Strategic Sourcing Step 1): Defining Sourcing Groups Analysing Sourcing Group Characteristics Understanding [...]

The comprehensive guide to 2006′s leading supply chain solution providers on the forefront of innovation published mid-2006 is here, in an article authored By Sarah Murray and Andrew K. Reese from SDCExec. I’m wondering why Zycus is not there, nor BravoSolution, Synertrade, Hubwoo… Most of the nominated companies are American. Well, if you feel like [...]

Zycus Redefines Spend Analysis into an Actionable and Result Oriented Process “Actionable Analytics 4.0 is a flexible tool that can be designed, within limits, to align and monitor balanced scorecard objectives. The application can quickly drill down to detail, but also functions at a higher level through the use of a dashboard (pipeline) that gives [...]

In october last year, I’ve explained – shortly I admit, but with a nice exhibit – what a sourcing tree is (product / service categorisation). If I recon my stats about my popular posts, this is definitly one of interest. So, here is a more extensive example of a sourcing tree (which I used in [...]

Andrew Bartolini from the Aberdeen Group just informed me about the availability of “The Advanced Sourcing and Negotiation Benchmark Report: The Art and Science of the Deal“, free for my readership to access until the end of march 2007. Here is the link to access the report. I presented the objectives of this survey in [...]

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 [...]

Since the merger of Synerdeal and Trade2B into Synertrade(? – question mark, yes, because when you look at the Management team…it looks more like an acquisition from the Germans) , the less one can say is that Synertrade stayed very quiet and low profile, which is not a positive sign indeed: no press release since [...]

In a recent report (january 2007) Lora Cecere from AMR Research is analysing the impact of globalisation on Supply Chain management. Based on Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria contribution to a Supply Chain Council’s recent Executive Retreat, she pointed out that “supply chain professionals can no longer depend solely on political infrastructure as the primary [...]

In its press release from January 29th 2007, cc-hubwoo reported a revenue 2006 of €32.0m which is aligned with its plans for 2006 and its aim to reach full profitability (EBIT) in 2007. If this level of revenue represents an an increase of 4.6% versus 2005, on a constant exchange rate and basis (Trade Ranger [...]

In its january 25, 2007 press release, Procuri announced astounding growth rates: * 150 percent year-over-year increase in incremental annual revenues, * 56 percent increase in its revenue run rate, * 53 percent increase in revenue backlog, * 68 new contracts in 2006 for a total of 360 customers. If you understand exactly what it [...]

Thanks to David Bush and his post no pain, no gain…not really, I’ve discovered a GREAT top 10 report issued by SupplyChainDigest: The Top 10 Supply Chain and Logistics Technologies and Strategies for 2007: “Published in 2007, this is the first annual list of the top supply chain and logistics technologies and strategies for the [...]