Strategic Sourcing Europe

Another good 20 page white-paper from SAP © 2006 describing 6 easy-to-use best practices and a couple of tips to support successful adoption of an eSourcing solution. Not rocket science, just basic change-management key success factors used in any transformation project but applied to eSourcing: Deming PDCA, Simplicity, quick wins and communication…what else?

The Scottish Governement has developped a comprehensive Purchasing toolkit and a full suite of Strategic Sourcing templates in order to streamline its Sourcing and Procurement processes. Although devoted to the Public sector Buyers, most of the templates are re-usable by Private-sector Buyers. The whole toolkit can be found on the Scottish Government website. Below is [...]

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…

Aberdeen revealed Top 4 pressures in its April 2009 report. Pretty basic, standard and ‘to be expected’ in current economic turmoil, but speed in responding to those market requirement will be the key success factor. Those 4 pressures are listed below and prioritized in the ‘figure 2′ included.

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 [...]

Find attached here how-to-write-an-rfp-s, an AT-Kearney POV and 5 tips to write an RFP. Nothing revolutionary in this article published in june 2006 but it is always good to come back to basics with ATK.

“An Achievable Approach to Master Data Management” is a FREE one-hour Web video featuring Forrester Research and hosted by the Institute of Supply Management (ISM), delivered the 12th of February. This webinar is tailored for supply chain professionals evaluating how to cope with dirty and inconsistent vendor data. Take an hour to hear Forrester’s latest [...]

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 [...]

Long time ago (…), when I was still heading Eutilia NV, I got a call from Anne Engström and Esmail Salehi-Sangari. They were observing that “ While large capital investments were made in numerous B2B e-marketplace initiatives, a significant number of these firms ended up going bankrupt. Today, many e-marketplaces are still struggling to survive and [...]

Browsing for eProcurement news, I found the last Forrester Wave (07Q2) on BasWare website (here) , discovering by the way the sensational coming-out of BasWare which belongs nowadays amongst the happy few eProcurement market leaders. Funny enough, I found back the eProcurement Forrester Wave from 04Q4. As you can see, Commerce One was already gone [...]

If you take a step back and look at the evolution of enterprise relationships in the last years, you’ll notice how much Outsourcing has grown in all industrial sectors and became a common best practice. Internet based technlogies and information-sharing platform did certainly contributes to this gusto, enabling an increased operational and realtime visibility on [...]

Supplier Enablement is one of my favorite topic. To my eyes, it goes much beyond a deployment of a e-catalogue-based procurement-process and ‘flirt’ with the ‘good-old-magic’ “plug and play extended-enterprise” concept, which is the end-game of successful B2B ASP/SAAS applications. Andrew Bartolini, research director at Aberdeen, just released a new report about Supplier Enablement (with [...]

To me, Spend Analysis is a critical area to get under control and where a good-size company should invest in. I’ve mentioned it several times and lately in a post I wrote on Michael Lamoureux request. Early this month, Purchasing.com issued a nice and 3-part series “The ABC of Spend Analysis”: Acquire the data skills [...]

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 [...]