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	<title>Strategic Sourcing Europe &#187; Strategic Sourcing</title>
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	<description>An European weblog for Purchasing professionals : eSourcing, eProcurement, eMarketplaces, KPIs, tools and methodology, market information...</description>
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		<title>5 metrics to calculate your Savings performance</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/12/5-metrics-to-calculate-your-savings-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you calculate your savings performance? This is a recurring question and I found a nice thread on linkedin "Savings performance calculation". ]]></description>
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		<title>A Gold Nugget: The Scottish Public Procurement Toolkit</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/a-gold-nugget-the-scottish-public-procurement-toolkit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/11/a-gold-nugget-the-scottish-public-procurement-toolkit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Sourcing Opportunities</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/10/strategic-sourcing-opportunities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/10/strategic-sourcing-opportunities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Browsing the content of this blog as anyone could do, I came to the conclusion that a recap&#8217; of  the 10 articles I posted about &#8216;strategic sourcing opportunities by commodity&#8217; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool tool for conducting a Purchasing Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/03/cool-tool-for-conducting-a-purchasing-assessment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/03/cool-tool-for-conducting-a-purchasing-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next to my previous post, I couldn&#8217;t miss to provide you with a compeling &#8211; although blank -and well structured template supporting the execution and the reporting of a Purchasing Assessment Assignment. A cool tool, very useful as well for benchmarking  with best-in-class practices. You can download this 52 page document here: sourcing-assessment.pdf You&#8217;ll discover how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>130 Questions for a Purchasing Performance Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2009/03/130-questions-for-purchasing-performance-assessment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2009/03/130-questions-for-purchasing-performance-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following is an indicative framework of 130 useful questions when assessing or benchmarking Purchasing processes and organisation performance. When on a consulting assignment, I used to design the &#8220;current state analysis&#8221; stage by ensuring I&#8217;ll get answers to most of those questions. 1. What is your main means of purchasing office supplies? 2. What application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Sourcing as key success factor in business success</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2007/10/strategic-sourcing-as-key-success-factor-in-business-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2007/10/strategic-sourcing-as-key-success-factor-in-business-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, I wrote about the Kirkman company, a Dutch based enterprise specialised on strategic sourcing consulting, not only for Purchasing but for any &#8216;make or buy&#8217; decision. If the concept looks simple, execution is much harder. It&#8217;s never easy to &#8216;cut your own arm&#8217;, to fire your own staff, to outsource a piece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Sourcing Opportunities Part X: Printing</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2007/06/strategic-sourcing-opportunities-part-x-printing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2007/06/strategic-sourcing-opportunities-part-x-printing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potential initiatives to improve the way you buy Printing are written on the graph below. Please click on the above-thumbnail to read it.]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Sourcing Opportunities Part IX: MRO</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2007/06/strategic-sourcing-opportunities-part-ix-mro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2007/06/strategic-sourcing-opportunities-part-ix-mro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Potential appropriate initiatives to improve the way you buy MRO are unveiled on the graph below. Please click on the above-thumbnail to read it.]]></description>
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		<title>You Need Expertise for a &#8216;Make or Buy&#8217; decision? ask the Kirkman boys!</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2007/06/need-expertise-for-a-make-or-buy-decision-ask-kirkman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2007/06/need-expertise-for-a-make-or-buy-decision-ask-kirkman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kirkman. Kirkman Company to be precise. Interpellating name, don&#8217;t you think? No, don&#8217;t be wrong, this is nothing related to the Start Treck series or James Kirk&#8217;s adventures, sorry for the fans. Nothing related neither to the Scottish Church (i.e. the english root meaning of Kirk). So what, huh? Here is the explanation: &#8220;The name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Sourcing Services: Do you know S4S?</title>
		<link>http://www.massin.eu/2007/06/global-sourcing-services-do-you-know-s4s/</link>
		<comments>http://www.massin.eu/2007/06/global-sourcing-services-do-you-know-s4s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jean-Philippe Massin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Browsing the web to find relevant information or service providers is a powerful method but time consuming still. Based on this straightforward observation, let me present you a company called S4S, offering a broad range of strategic and operational sourcing services. Their website is well done, their offering compelling and the information provided proves at [...]]]></description>
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