This is a table I build-up to create ‘client’ awareness on eProcurement deployment challenges and introduce the ‘How to implement and deploy eProcurement”: It is all about Value Enablement, Awareness of eProcurement benefits per category of supplies, change management efforts and logic (quick wins, communication, impact analysis, gap awareness, training, coaching, supporting), Awareness of the [...]
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 [...]
Zycus issued in last September 2009 an article titled “5 Best Practices Toward Contract Compliance”. In there, You’ll learn about what’s key when looking after contract compliance: Including clauses sticking the contract to market conditions, defining the right contract metrics, not forgetting auditing the standardized contract management processes you should have put in place
Comparing your performance to your peers in your industry is essential to understand how good you are. Many ways to do so and hereby is another one I just identified, focused on ‘Cost Performance’, reading the article “In Pursuit of a Cutting Edge” published on CFO.com. You” be able to compare your company performance against leading US players in following markets (link brings you directly to an excel tool):
It’s not done yet but an official agreement has been achieved. The news is rather unexpected as fully undisclosed so far. I will comment later on.
Here is the press release.
Following my latest post about cc-hubwoo, now rebranded back to Hubwoo with a new logo, I’ve had the opportunity to meet Mark Williams (CEO) and Xavier Lablancherie (CMO) a month ago and discuss about the eP2P (electronic Purchase to Pay) Business.
My latest and controversial posts about Hubwoo were boldly underlining difficulties and unclarity which [...]
Last month, I’ve been delighted to meet for the first time the french Executive Manager of Synertrade, Patrick Chabannes, following online exchanges we had about Synertrade’s lack of communication some times ago. We got an extensive and pleasant conversation sharing our views on the eSourcing market, its maturity, its contradictions, and of course about Synertrade [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I’ve been proposed a brief from Zycus – a global company founded in India in 1998 with offices in US and Europe – about their new solution release: iPlan and iSource. I’ve accepted the webex meeting, as I was curious to hear their sales pitch and to eye-’touch’ their web2 [...]
” BravoSolution has registered impressive organic revenue growth for its entire six-year history. Profitable since 2004, BravoSolution has averaged 55% annual turnover growth since inception, and brings a culture of aggressive growth to its new BravoSolution US operations. In addition to impressive independent growth, BravoSolution enjoys the strong financial backing of its parent company, [...]
Today, cc-hubwoo announced its 07Q4 results: 32,6M€ revenues, which means 1,8% growth, almost none. Not surprisingly, stocks went down by 3,95%. shall it be reminded that Alain Andreoli’s plan for 2007 was to reach 44M€ (see my post comparing cc-hubwoo and IBX). cc-hubwoo being far behind its objectives and its growth being almost nil, even [...]
IBX undisclosed its 07Q4 newsletter and confirmed its ambition to reach 34M€ revenue at year-end, as forecasted initially. Wow, this is a great, impressive and steady two-digit growth rate for 2007. Have a look at the graph below, it might speak to you more than any word.
On the other side and in the meantime (sept. [...]
7 months ago from now I was writing on this blog “Even a ‘loose-partnership’ like Hubwoo – Procuri doesn’t make sense to me: interlocutors for e-Procurement are not the same as interlocutors for eSourcing and in general, nobody likes to hear they have to use a specific application here because they have this other application [...]
That’s what you can read in the latest analysis from the Forrester, August 2007, Andrew Bartels following the interviews of 21 ‘contract management’ vendor companies, including Accruent, Ariba, CMA Contiki, Comergent, Emptoris, I-many, Model N, Nextance, Omniware, Open Text, Oracle, Procuri, SAP, Selectica, Symfact, and Upside Software, as well as others that have been acquired.
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Although you never know what you will fall-down on, it’s always good to hang-around on the web and browse pages as keywords pop-up in your mind. I just found this nice and free powerpoint presentation from the Forrester, April 2007 which supported a webex conference entitled “eProcurement Vendors You Should Be Considering” and presented by [...]
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