Luca Guzzabocca – Banking on Procurement (Part 2)
In our last article, we introduced you to "friend of the site," Luca Guzzabocca, the Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE, Security Management (or “Chief Procurement Officer”) at Banca Monte Dei…
Luca Guzzabocca: Banking on Procurement (Part 1)
There are certain people who come to epitomize their community while also being active participants in it. Sometimes they become statesmen, like Warren Buffet, who’s played that role for the…
ePayables Primer (4) – The Main Metric
Part Four of our ePayables Primer starts right in with a discussion of the key AP performance metric that can be used to build a case for investment in ePayables.…
Déjà vu: Summer Supply Constraints
The dreaded dog days of summer can hit anyone. From the buy side to the supply side, we know they’re coming and yet, many enterprises keep getting hit, from the…
The Dog Days
With apologies to our growing contingent of Chief Procurement Officers and other readers based in the southern hemisphere who are hip-deep into winter – please set a reminder in your…
An ePayables Primer – (3) The Approach
We continue to build out our ePayables Primer with this article focused on how to begin a push for AP transformation, The Approach. The first two articles are found here:…
Data Driven
The world is becoming more and more data driven. As you surf the web today, many of the sites that you visit will utilize ad serving technology that will determine,…
CPO Shop Talk – More Webinar Q&A
This edition of Chief Procurement Officer Shop Talk is part two of the Q&A portion of a webinar that I delivered on July 7th for Zycus - an archive of…
An ePayables Primer – (2) The Opportunities
ePayables Primer Part 2 – The Opportunities We started building this ePayables Primer last week with a look at some (but, not all) of the key challenges facing the average…
CPO Rising – Site Navigation and Design
We started CPO Rising because we felt that there was an opportunity to reach/develop/expand an underserved market with interesting articles that provide fresh insight and progressive approaches while also informing,…