Thanks to David Bush and his post no pain, no gain…not really, I’ve discovered a GREAT top 10 report issued by SupplyChainDigest: The Top 10 Supply Chain and Logistics Technologies and Strategies for 2007: “Published in 2007, this is the first annual list of the top supply chain and logistics technologies and strategies for the [...]
B2B News David Wei Joins Alibaba.com as President of Alibaba’s B2B Division . Former President of B&Q China brings solid operational experience and industry expertise to drive expansion of Alibaba’s business-to-business marketplaces WhyAbe has a New Look . The free auction site WhyAbe has a new look and set of functionalities. Could anyone using WhyAbe [...]
The BuyIT Best Practice Network is an independent group with a mission to “help organisations realise the business benefits from Information & Communications Technology by identifying and promoting best practice in e-business”. BuyIT has published eProcurement and eBusiness best practice guidelines since 1996 as part of their remit to identify and promote best practice. Through [...]
What is still amazing me in the eSourcing and eProcurement world is the lack of transparency of prices. So here is my question of the day: how much does it cost to get a full managed reverse auction? Which pricing model do you know and/or use (fixed-fee, success fee, mixed…)? Let me start dropping some [...]
From “The Forrester Wave™: eSourcing Suites, Q4 2005″, Andrew Bartels issued a specific report about Verticalnet in November 2006 and said: Verticalnet’s eSourcing suite ranks third in current offering, behind Ariba and Emptoris but ahead of other specialists.It scores well on spend analysis (behind Emptoris but ahead of Ariba) and RFx and auction support. It [...]
Since a couple of years now, Procuri is delivering web seminar in a regular basis. This is a great idea. I believe that distributing and sharing information through internet-based video will become a standard considering the amazing success of VOD (Video on Demand), YouTube and Co. Within 3 to 5 years for sure, describing products or services [...]
Last time, I’ve explained in the post SSOA Part II/IV how to define which strategy and tactic to apply per SG. The third and next step is to define priorities. Which SG shall you start with, knowing you will launch consecutive ‘strategic sourcing waves’ limited to the resources you can mobilize? Basically, priorities depend on [...]
Those websites (see below) are not really B2B eMarketplaces for software development but could be, somehow, with some additional functionality like a collaborative ‘online specification description” module. It is more a C to C eMarketplace to get your personal website done but I have to say I used them to develop some bits (graphical bits [...]
Bob Emiliani and his principal co-author, David Stec, worked as purchasing managers in the aerospace industry where they used reverse auctions. They have issued a dozen research papers for buyers and sellers interested in reverse auctions since 1997. On their website they say: “The papers, published in top-tier journals, has been very influential among corporate [...]
72%. Do you believe that? Ok, it’s not done yet and we all know that the usage of a framework contract is not as easy at it seems, accross a wide organisation . This means anyway that the average price for PC consumable has been cut by 72%, half of it coming from an “exciting [...]
If you are a capital extensive company, you might already know Dovebid. Founded a very long time ago – yes, in 1937! – the firm pioneered the use of auctions in high technology by selling the assets of Osborne Computer – the first computer auction in history. Six decades after its founding, the firm has [...]
I remember the early days when running our first auctions and not having really a clue about how long they would last… we even got an auction running for 2 days with a pause during the night… Thousands of auctions later, here come a nice tip (Thanks to Lloyd Keays who found the equation!) to [...]
I don’t know why, but I got the feeling Open Source applications will take-off more and more. Currently, it is still difficult to find a lot of alternative or ‘best of breed’ open source applications covering eSourcing. I am ready to bet it will change. Anyway, I was searching for this kind of stuff and [...]
Anyone – in Europe at least – dealing with B2B Sourcing activities is aware of Europages, Kompass, Dunn and Bradstreet, but what about Masterseek (45 million companies in 75 countries)? It’s a new entrant and as for all other players, it’s quite difficult to evaluate the quality of its database at a glance. 2 remarks [...]
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