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?
Gizmo’s website, that I already presented in this blog (read my post about “The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities”), upgraded its user interface and significantly increased the number of reviewed, rated and recommanded freewares. It’s better than ever and a true time-saver when searching for a small-app to make a value-added job like finding and deleting [...]
Find attached here how-to-write-an-rfp-s, an AT-Kearney POV and 5 tips to write an RFP. Nothing revolutionary in this article published in june 2006 but it is always good to come back to basics with ATK.
To me, Spend Analysis is a critical area to get under control and where a good-size company should invest in. I’ve mentioned it several times and lately in a post I wrote on Michael Lamoureux request. Early this month, Purchasing.com issued a nice and 3-part series “The ABC of Spend Analysis”: Acquire the data skills [...]
Congrats and thanks to Tim Minahan (nominated in the 2007 Pros to know, master of the popular SupplyExcellence blog and former Aberdeen analyst), the initiator and recent Procuri-sponsored author of a free e-book called “The 100 Greatest Supply Management Tips of All Time! : Practical Approaches for Supply and Contract Management Success”. Tim populated 100 [...]
AMR Reviews the Spend Visibility Landscape | spend analytic vendors are making progress; from Jason Busch Purchasing News Roundup | nice list of links from ‘purchasing blog’. The one I enjoyed the most is Entrepreneurial Culture Why European economies lag behind the U.S. (from Mr. Phelps, a professor at Columbia University ; 2006 Nobel Laureate [...]
Though this Website is not dedicated to Procurement & Sourcing, let me just recommend you BNET.com. Belonging to CNET networks and proudly showing a PageRank of 7 to 8, it’s definitly a well-established information portal for Professionals, whatever your function is: You’ll find there nice articles, news, thoughts, links to business reports and even download-able [...]
I have presented in the post SSOA III/IV how to prioritize SGs, depending on 1) the potential savings they could generate and 2) their easiness of implementation. The next and last phase is to define the implementation plan of your Strategic Sourcing program. There’s no obligation at all to translate your excel spreadsheet with SGs [...]
Thinking about it, I spent hours to search and identify the best freeware to install for a particular topic (ftp, images, security, file management, etc…). Not talking even about the risks of adwares or malwares. I found this website “The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities” really usefull to save time and get the best, free and [...]
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