Last week I reported the release of the latest Advanced Sourcing report from Aberdeen. From my perspective, there’s nothing really new in the picture, though interesting stats about best practices, majors obstacles and ways-out. Andrew Bartolini, the author, informed me that he would be happy to answer your questions if any. Nice isn’t it? So, [...]
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 [...]
Paul Snell reveals, in his article “Maverick spends, not a major issue for buyers“, the top 3 reasons of 326 global companies surveyed by the research firm NelsonHall ( a global US Business Process Outsourcing analyst firm) ,for outsourcing indirect procurement: reducing process costs (84 per cent of companies), accelerated sourcing times (79 per cent), [...]
CSR, as you probably know, stands for Corporate Social Responsability. CSR is also simply called Corporate Responsibility. CSR, in short, is all about the behaviour of private/public sector organisations and their contribution to sustainable development (health, safety and environmental) goals. According to CIPS, ” CSR should be borne in mind when dealing with suppliers, although [...]
I recently traded emails with Andrew Bartolini of Aberdeen Group, thanks to this blog. Andrew Bartolini, as far as you can read on his offical bio, is meant to know what he is talking about, as he is” a Supply Management professional with rich experience in Strategic Sourcing, Business Process Transformation, and Software Implementation. As [...]
End of November 2006, The Forrester offered a teleconference to give its views of the worldwide market for eProcurement, eSourcing, contract life-cycle management (CLM), spend analysis, electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP), and supplier networks for 2006-2008. The analysis, presented by Andrew Bartels Vice President Forrester Research, is based on 60 leading vendors You can [...]
Don’t tell me you are not interested to know how your own salary benchmarks with other european purchasing professionals… The European Institute for Purchasing Management (EIPM) is offering the resource you need: a salary survey. Already 1975 individuals have participated. The only constraint will be to disclose, anonymously however, your own salary package: no surprise, [...]
Which company is the most popular eSourcing vendor? I’ve decided to look at Alexa and compare traffic ranking. Below is the outcome. To be honest, first hand, I’ve been surprised (a bit), but if you take into account that some of those Vendors have different platforms available for their customer, instead of a unique one [...]
Purchasing’s has issued its annual Benchmark about E-Sourcing adoption. The percentage of spend going through e-sourcing tools almost doubled in the past year (2005) from 16% in 2005 to 31% in 2006. And buyers are shooting for up to 50% next year. Read more here. It’s impressive but there is nothing to be surprised by: [...]
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