Strategic Sourcing Europe

The concept is not new, but is is now becoming a reality. ProcureTech Live 2007 will be the first online event about Purchasing with a virtual exhibitor hall, web-based conferences and a lounge not to miss networking. It will take place the 21st of November, on the web. Zycus (leading spend analysis service provider) is [...]

Although you never know what you will fall-down on, it’s always good to hang-around on the web and browse pages as keywords pop-up in your mind. I just found this nice and free powerpoint presentation from the Forrester, April 2007 which supported a webex conference entitled “eProcurement Vendors You Should Be Considering” and presented by [...]

Aberdeen Supply Management research is undertaking a new survey about the procurement of marketing materials and services. I received the following notice today: Corporate spend around marketing (including print, marketing and advertising media and services) is significant within organizations, driving efforts to reduce costs in this complex category of spend. Approximately 40% of enterprises previously reported [...]

An event for European AP and Procurement Professionals. This event will be presented in English and will take place in September 2007, from the 17th to the 20th at the Crowne Plaza, Brussels, Belgium. To know more or to register, visit this page. PS for Michael Lamoureux: this event is not yet in your list [...]

European stakeholders are providing a set of guidelines for public authorities and contracting parties to support the introduction and use of Green Public Procurement. Published in 2004, Buying Green! is a 40 page and 6 chapter handbook explaining in concrete terms how environmental considerations can be integrated into procurement procedures, public legal constraints and  including concrete [...]

Yeah-yeeees… Of course you know the difference between those 2 ‘high-buzzing’ concepts which are green procurement and Sustainable procurement. However, the more I read about it, the more I see Green instead of Sustainable or vice versa. Even in my posts…oups. So, for the sake of it, give me 2′ to refresh our mind. GREEN [...]

Offshore BPO is not dead. Quite the contrary: End of July, Infosys signed a $250 mn multi-national deal with one of the most well known Dutch company - Philips – and confirmed, at least, being India’s second largest IT services company and  at last its ambition to expand in Europe to become a worldwide leading player. 1400 [...]

You can read below the article published by BUSINESS WIRE and announcing the merger I releaved to you a couple of weeks ago on this blog: CORRECTING and REPLACING Supply Chain Leaders CorMine and Perfect Commerce Announce Merger Newly Combined Company Brings Customers World-Class SaaS Sourcing and Procurement Solutions; Drives Efficiencies and Cost-Savings that Outpace [...]

At last! The news is not yet publicly released but is ‘internally’ official since a couple of days. Knowing the strong operational and personal relationships both companies have built with IBM over the past 5 years, we shall probably thank IBM to give birth to this wonderful M$100+ baby who will sharpen the dynamics of [...]

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 [...]

Kirkman. Kirkman Company to be precise. Interpellating name, don’t you think? No, don’t be wrong, this is nothing related to the Start Treck series or James Kirk’s adventures, sorry for the fans. Nothing related neither to the Scottish Church (i.e. the english root meaning of Kirk). So what, huh? Here is the explanation: “The name [...]

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 [...]

Are you still ignoring who Achilles Group is? Of course not! Indeed, a ~30M€ revenue and worldwide leading provider of Supplier Management Information (supplier pre-qualification databases). Achilles’ supplier management schemes speeds up the sourcing & procurement cycle while promoting corporate social responsibility. Achilles’ main weakness is aligned on its key strength, this strength which enabled [...]

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 [...]