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…
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…
CPO Shop Talk: Webinar Q&A
This edition of Chief Procurement Officer Shop Talk comes directly from the Q&A portion of the webinar that I delivered on July 7th for Zycus. I describe the webinar here…
CPO Shop Talk: (1) Meetings to Make Decisions (2) On Winning
Meetings to Make Decisions I recently caught up with a Chief Procurement Officer who finds himself in the early part of a procurement transformation journey. He's not a career procurement…
Mario Mosca – Energizing Procurement at Enel (Part 2)
Today, Part Two of our CPO Case Study with Mario Mosca, Head of Procurement, Processes and Systems, for Enel Energy in Rome will look at the supply management solutions and…
Mario Mosca – Energizing Procurement at Enel (Part 1)
Two speaking engagements in Northern Italy in the last two months and each time I have had the pleasure of preceding Mario Mosca, Head of Procurement, Processes and Systems, Business…
Savings Goals
Through no fault of our own, sometimes the same level of effort results in widely different results (Denmark 1-0-1). Sometimes external factors (US 2 Slovenia 2) play a bigger role…
Leverage – Procurement’s Big Impact on Profits
We’ve spent the past few articles (here and here) looking at the impact that a procurement department’s net contribution can have on profitability and placed that impact in the relative…
…Is a Nickel, Dime, or Quarter Earned
After a sly rambling preamble about the acidic rain of costly pennies from heaven, our discussion last time, A Penny Saved, turned to the extraordinary impact that ordinary procurement results…