I’ve fished this news fresh from today. It has been posted here on cc-hubwoo website. The news went fast around as I found it initially on SpendMatters a couple of hours ago, thanks to Jason Busch. Before sharing some of my feelings and first thoughts on the face of it, let me remind you cc-hubwoo’s [...]
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 [...]
In his recent public press release the 10th of May, Alain Andreoli (CEO of CC-Hubwoo) reported that: “Consolidated revenues for the first quarter were 8.0 million euros, in line with the Group’s expectations. On a constant exchange basis, revenues for the first quarter were flat versus 2006. The company has previously announced that it expects [...]
Each year SAP offers a major opportunity for its customers, partners, consultants, and users, to learn about SAP solutions at its ‘SAP-PHIRE’ event. On April 22 – 25, 2007, executives, business managers, and industry experts have been invited at SAPPHIRE ’07 Atlanta to exchange ideas and explore innovative business and technology solutions. You couldn’t make [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Manufacturing Marketplace MFG.com announced (here) it has secured Funding for Global Expansion. The amount is kept confidential. On the other hand, MFG-SourcingParts (the 2 companies merged in 2006) announced as well (there, in french) an impressive growth of 49% in 2006, which means a total revenue of (4M€+15M€)*1,49%=28M€, if my understanding is right (i.e it is [...]
Based on my experience – of course! – but also on an excellent paper written in 2000 by Tim Duffie’s (UPS) about the difference between sourcing AND strategic sourcing and following the recent post of David Bush ‘Strategic Sourcing Success Factors‘, you will find on this post what I consider as the top 10 Strategic [...]
From my perspective, yes…but not now. IBX, ranked among top innovators in 2006 by the prestigious Supply & Demand Chain Executive, has acquired Portum last year (2006), you may know or remind. Since then, I didn’t notice any major achievement on that side, apart from – of course – some announcement of client acquisition, but [...]
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 [...]
In the latest “e-Achats infos” newsletter (in French, oops) from March 2007, BravoSolution, leaded by its CEO Federico Vitaletti, reveals an impressive organic revenue growth 05/06 of 40%, reaching by the way 25M€ revenue in 2006 with 220 employees spread across Italy, France and UK mainly. Simply A-MA-ZING, though not as good as Procuri (56% [...]
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 [...]
Though the impact of sustainable development in the supply chain and procurement has been on HEC radar screen for already 4 years, the french HEC School of management has decided to expand their research with the support of Ariba – duly represented by an eProcurement/eSourcing pioneer Pierre Francois Thaler, currently director of managed procurement services [...]
Andrew Bartels ( Forrester Research) released yesterday, 20th of Feb, a new report about the ePurchasing software market: Growth is predicted to be… rather very very low (3 to 10%) in the coming years (surprised?). I can’t tell you much more, as this report is not free to read, but here are complementary information from [...]
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