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February 1, 2012 | No Comments

Non-Price Attributes – Buying Behavior (Bid Structure) and Variable Cost Components

Since introducing the “Non-Price Attributes” series here, we have discussed the following: Supplier Market Share Quality & Past Performance Production and Delivery Capabilities Who the Supplier Is Next on our... Read more
January 30, 2012 | No Comments

Seven Trends that Will Impact Supply Management in 2012

To kick off 2010 (and this site), I published a series of ten lists – our “10 for 2010” – where we made predictions, highlighted strategies, identified leaders [Sidebar: I... Read more
January 11, 2012 | No Comments

ePayables Daily Double

Two good bets today – play to win! (1) Top Tips for Building an AP Automation Business Case & Calculating Your ROI We supported Cyber Week 2011 with a “net... Read more
January 5, 2012 | No Comments

The Path to Paperless [Webinar]

Our 2011 research agenda ended with a big focus on ePayables; so, not surprisingly, our busy event/speaking calendar kicks off with a bang next week as we co-present in a... Read more
December 2, 2011 | No Comments

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring “Corporate” Site Sponsors

Our final Cyber Week “promotion” is today. We want to thank our readers and our Chief Procurement Officer “friends of the site” for making CPO Rising one of the most-visited... Read more
November 30, 2011 | No Comments

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring Lead Sponsor BravoSolution

For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few “promotions”- for our sponsors and for our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so... Read more
November 28, 2011 | No Comments

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring Lead Sponsor Hubwoo

Thank you for taking time out of your frenzied shopping schedule to visit us today. Today is Cyber Monday. What began as an afterthought to “Black Friday,” six years ago... Read more
October 28, 2011 | No Comments

CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert

(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer’s house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding... Read more
October 20, 2011 | 1 Comment

The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement

In our last article, we discussed the opportunity that exists for many enterprises to improve their P2P operations (P2P is defined more broadly as Procurement and Accounts Payable – not... Read more
October 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union

We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) – Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the... Read more