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?
In 2006 SAP has issued a white paper about reverse auction best practices. You can find it now on its knowledge hub. Here you go. You will learn the essential, i.e. when to use RFx and reverse auctions, how to sell auctions to internal stakeholders, how to get supplier buy-in, how to choose the right auction settings and to run an auction.
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 [...]
A good and detailed guidance note from the NePP (National e-Procurement Project) written in 2004 but still valuable. You can download it here: NePP eAuctions. You will learn: – how to get started, – what are the challenge, – where to get more information The structure of this document is: Section 1 contains a definition [...]
If you still feel uncomfortable deciding or not to go auction, you should use the eAuction Decision Tool, provided by OGC, in order to receive assistance in evaluating whether an eAuction is suitable for an intended procurement. To access the eAuction Decision Tool click the link below and, if prompted, click on the enable macros [...]
Bravosolution (IT), a leading eSourcing player in Europe – at least – announced, end of July, the acquisition of Mobile Workers (FR), a specialist in spend analysis solutions. You can read the official press release here. I personally think it is a great move: Spend Analysis solution is a powerful tool enabling impressive savings through [...]
Alibaba, the world’s largest online B2B marketplace for global and domestic China trade with over 20 million registered members in more than 200 countries and territories, the famous company founded by Jack Ma 7 years ago expects total revenue to hit US$1.25 billion by 2009. The 1999′s 18-man-startup already reached US$100 million in the first [...]
Following the closure of Eutilia and convinced about eSourcing tools value, Suez, a leading international industrial utility Group, has launched a RFP in early 2007 to find a substitution solution. Leading solution-providers like Synertrade, BravoSolution, Ariba were invited to reply. Finally, end of March, Suez has decided to go with VerticalNet’s XE Sourcing solution to [...]
eProcure & Supply, one of the biggest Trade Fair and Congress for Procurement and Supplier Management in Europe, will welcome some 140 exhibitors (see below the ones present in 2006) and vendors of proven solutions for electronic procurement, from Wednesday to Friday 25-27 April 2007. For any solution-provider – for sure, if any interest in [...]
While a growing number of eSourcing technology vendors are outsourcing their originally in-house consulting services to focus on ASP technology services and becoming pure technology vendors, InterSources is one of the very few that has choosen the totally opposite-path since its launch in 2003. Good move indeed, as InterSource is now benefiting from a global [...]
I’ve been lately contacted by 2 eSourcing companies looking for promoting their pricing levels as I was complaining about the lack of transparency of the market. The pricing information I got is not detailed, nor did I get specifics about the financial and operational health of those companies but, as I thought it can be [...]
Sorting out 10′s of case studies, white papers and researches I’ve archived since 2001 when I joined Eutilia, I found this great and long article from Peter Henig, written in 2000 in the famous Red Herring magazine and about industry-sponsored exchanges. Many of his assumptions turned true though in opposition with the hype… . Congrats [...]
eAuctions. Savings. I have the weird impression I have covered this topic in and out already (Read my 30 posts about eAuctions) but still needing to share about it, as if I was feeling it was not well understood by everyone. As a matter of fact and as I was reading with interest the commercial [...]
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 [...]
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