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.
Following this link: The impact of e-purchasing on supply chain management , you’ll get a robust definition of eSourcing and eProcurement – a definition provided by CIPS - as well as ‘still valid’ point of view (POV) on the impact of ‘e’ upon purchasing and supply management activities… Actually it looks like it’s not such [...]
Organizations are increasingly delegating their information technology (IT) intensive business activities to external service providers to take advantage of the rapid evolution of the global telecommunications infrastructure and emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) capabilities. The business processes being outsourced range from routine and non-critical tasks, which are resource intensive and operational, to strategic processes [...]
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, Italcementi, [...]
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 [...]
“Sho(pping) time!” After Mobile Worker, it’s Verticalnet’s turn to loose its independence, being in the process of being acquired by BravoSolution, an Italcimenti’s subsidiary. The acquisition will give birth to a EUR40 Million Spend Management Solutions provider, with good presence in US and Europe. Another good move from BravoSolution, as the cost of the transaction [...]
Right, it’s only my point of view. Anyone can think differently and believe that the value of the merger lies on the synergies of the 2 companies, but I don’t myself, motivated by following arguments: – The functional coverage of the 2 apps offered by Ariba and Procuri is more or less similar, – The [...]
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 [...]
cc-hubwoo. IBX. No need to present those 2 European companies, focused on the same topic (eSourcing and eProcurement) but not yet really on the same geography. Those 2 companies are without any doubt leading the European eProcurement market – at least with revenues hitting EUR 30+ millions a year. Following a similar move (acquisition) lately [...]
Which eSourcing vendor is the most popular, enjoying the highest online traffic? I’ve decided to look at Alexa – for a second time – and compare most well known eSourcing vendors’ traffic ranking. Below is the outcome. You have to be aware that some of those Vendors have different platforms available for their customers instead [...]
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