CPO News – February 3, 2012
DHS to Adopt eSourcing 2.0 The DHS will get out of the paper business and adopt electronic bidding for all major programs. So said Department of Homeland Security’s Undersecretary for…
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…
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…
Non-Price Attributes – “Who” is the Supplier?
When talking to friends who invest money in stocks or companies professionally or when reading about well-known (or well-heeled) investors, two investment strategies often stand out (1) invest in companies…
Non-Price Attributes: Production and Delivery Capabilities
Our non-price attribute series continues today with a look at Production and Delivery Capabilities. After introducing the series here, we have also discussed Quality & Past Performance and Supplier Market…
Non-Price Attributes: Quality & Past Performance
Last week we introduced a discussion on the use of non-price attributes in evaluating supplier bids and awarding contracts. This week, we continue the conversation by discussing specific non-price attributes…
Sourcing & Supplier Selection – Non-Price Attributes (Market Share)
Beyond price, what criteria do you typically use to award your supplier contracts? That’s the question we’ll try to answer today (and in this new series) as we share our…
Sourcing & Supplier Selection – Non-Price Attributes (1)
Yes, we've been spending a fair amount of time talking about ePayables in recent weeks and we hope you've enjoyed it (we did after all, just announce the publication of…
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…
CPO News – January 9, 2012
While we work hard to make the articles on CPO Rising as interesting, informative, and entertaining as we possibly can (I hope we're succeeding), we also hope that the articles…