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.
I would like first to congrat Michael Lamoureux for his “Top Three Series” initiative, “asking professionals he knows to name their top 3 critical issues in the sourcing / procurement / supply chain space and discuss why the issue is important, what a company can do about it, and what could happen if it’s not [...]
Sorting out 10′s of case studies, white papers and researches I’ve archived since 2001 when I joined Eutilia, I found this great and long article from Peter Henig, written in 2000 in the famous Red Herring magazine and about industry-sponsored exchanges. Many of his assumptions turned true though in opposition with the hype… . Congrats [...]
Events in Europe: Procurecon 2007 – The 10th Pan-European Strategic Sourcing Event (Europe’s biggest procurement event – 5/8 November 2007 – Hotel le Plaza – Brussels) Procurecon Indirect 2007(Europe first ever indirect procurement event – 24/25 April 2007 – Amsterdam) Developing Sustainable Procurement Strategies for Oil and Gas (conference 26/27 March 2007 – Aberdeen UK) [...]
At a certain point, it’s not even anymore an option. It’s a must have: You can’t survive without a tool to remember all of your usernames-passwords and helping you overcoming the pain of filling all those forms requested to get access to some good content, reports or white papers. Personnaly I’m using Roboform. I tried [...]
Another white paper from Ariba, about spend management priorities for CPOs in 2006. I think this is the kind of white paper we got and we’ll get every year. Very useful to identify what their customers are looking after but quite compelling for everyone as well to understand where the attention of CPOs is concentrated [...]
You may know the Sourcing Innovation blog from Michael Lamoureux but what about his Sourcing Resource Guide page and its 100 TOP links related to procurement or sourcing? You will find there an impressive list of links to analyst group, publication, white paper, events, vendor and blogger websites (mostly from US). If the look and [...]
Getting a right customised product and service classification for your own company will be tuff and time consuming. You’d rather start with a standard and global one as the UNSPSC, available in several languages and evolving with user’s requirements. It’s already quite extensive with several thousand codes. The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code® [...]
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