Andrew Bartolini | Procurement Analyst & CPO Research Specialist

CPO Shop Talk: (1) Happy Anniversary CPO Rising (2) eSourcing 2.0 Enacted

By Andrew Bartolini April 4, 2011Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

CPO Rising Celebrates One Year Anniversary! Although we technically started publishing articles on CPO Rising on Jan 1, 2010, we waited until April 1, 2010 to announce its existence to…

Brokers Wild – Pressure on Japanese Supply Chain Intensifies

By Andrew Bartolini April 1, 2011Articles, General, Strategy2 Comments

I’ve intentionally held off from discussing the Japan earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown story because I fear the absolute worst from this situation and I hate being an alarmist. I will return to…

CPO Shop Talk: (1) P&G Purchases on the Rise (2) Sourcing Optimization

By Andrew Bartolini March 30, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

A few items to highlight from CombineNet’s “Sourcing Visionaries” event held yesterday in Chicago. (1) P&G Purchases Uldis Sipols, VP, Global Product Supply Purchases at Procter & Gamble delivered the…

Are You a Servant to Your Master Data?

By Andrew Bartolini March 28, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

A few weeks ago, I delivered a webinar on Master Data Management The webinar which was sponsored by Zynapse, a division of Zycus, has been archived and can be accessed…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – One CPO Who Is Making the Grade (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini March 25, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

In our last article, we discussed this Chief Procurement Officer for a Fortune 500 Company’s achievements over his first four years in the role. During this time, he led a…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – One CPO Who Is Making the Grade (Part 1)

By Andrew Bartolini March 23, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

I am glad that I did not have this unnamed Chief Procurement Officer and “friend of the site” for Freshman English. You are too. Trust me. You will see what…

The CFO and the CPO: One World, Two Worldviews

By Andrew Bartolini March 18, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

We are only in the early stages of our Chief Procurement Officers on the Rise in 2011, but before we resume, I wanted to highlight a few excerpts from my…

Webinar: Spend Data Classification

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

Just a short lead in for an upcoming webinar that I will be presenting next week. The upcoming webinar is sponsored by Zycus and you can register for it here. …

CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – CPO @ Fortune 100 Company

By Andrew Bartolini March 11, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, StrategyNo Comments

While all of the Chief Procurement Officers in our CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series have all been kind enough to support the site and our industry by sharing…

The Dog Days – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini March 10, 2011Articles, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Revisiting an earlier article that is timelier today for our many readers in the Southern Hemisphere, who are just getting to work on a long, hot Friday in the middle…