Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (2)
Last week, I participated in a webinar - Strategic Imperatives of Procurement: People, Process & Technology - (you can view it by clicking here - registration required) that was sponsored…
Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (1)
Last week, I participated in a webinar (which was really more of a Q&A session than a traditional webinar) that was sponsored by Zycus. This event allowed me to tackle…
Attention Sourcing Professionals – A Few Recommendations
Tuesday afternoon I participated in a webinar/Q&A session that allowed me to tackle a series of hot topic questions [I'll post the archive when it becomes available]. One question that…
SNAFU
Supply Disruption (Candy) - Halloween in Massachusetts Today, October 31, 2011 is not Halloween, at least in certain parts of Massachusetts. It has been postponed. A "Nor'easter" has taken down…
CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert
(1) An Adoption Roundtrip Over a home-cooked team dinner (asian fusion) at one Chief Procurement Officer's house this week, I fell into a discussion with a Director of Direct regarding…
Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis
Today's Adoption Series entry follows our last article which looked at the concept of a “learning curve” and argued that until users find the new process to be more efficient…
Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (2)
Our CPOs on the Rise series continues today with Part Two of a Q&A with another "friend of the site" - Daniel Warn (Part One is found here). Dan is…
The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement
In our last article, we discussed the opportunity that exists for many enterprises to improve their P2P operations (P2P is defined more broadly as Procurement and Accounts Payable - not…
CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union
We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) - Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the…
Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (1)
Last month I had the opportunity to participate in a webinar that focused on the issues of procurement performance and procurement value and the fundamental differences that exist between the…