Category Sourcing Scorecard – Internal Factors
While working on the recent articles that have focused on the importance of developing and maintaining an active Sourcing Pipeline and how to identify the best sourcing opportunities, I started…
Sourcing Waves
Exerting influence on spend or, better yet, exerting proactive influence on spend is one of the major goals (compliance is another) in placing spend under management. When it comes to…
Compliance is Good
On the heels of a long week and a long weekend, I'll keep this final article on compliance short and to the point (click to read the two preceding articles,…
Sourcing for Value: Using Non-Price Attributes to Find the Best Suppliers
We recently published a series focused on the use of non-price attributes to improve the sourcing and supplier selection process. And now, that series has spawned a webinar and a…
Instant Analysis: Acquisition in the Clouds – SAP to Acquire Ariba for $4.3 Billion
The procurement-themed events held at SAP's SAPPHIRE in Orlando last Monday night were abuzz with the rumor that SAP was going to make a huge cloud procurement announcement the next…
Showdown at the Compliance Corral
Ardent Partners' Report, CPO Rising 2011: Innovative Ideas for the Decade Ahead, showed that the average compliance rate in the market today is 62.9%. Not exactly great but it is…
Support Your Local Maverick?
A maverick is defined as "a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates. Synonyms: nonconformist, individualist;…
ePayables 101: Graduation
Congratulations! If you've read the links below, you have successfully completed CPO Rising's ePayables 101 course, an immersion program focused on AP Automation and Transformation. The Challenges The Opportunities The…
ePayables 101: More Metrics
ePayables 101 - More Metrics Today we’ll look at the other key metrics (besides the average cost per invoice discussed last time) that can help an AP department better understand…
ePayables 101: The Metrics
ePayables 101 - The Metrics Part 4 of our ePayables 101 series starts right in with a discussion of the key AP performance metric that can be used to build…