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Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2A)
We continue today with Part 2A of our case study of how Enel, Europe’s second largest utility company with annual revenue exceeding 64 billion €, made its case for an... Read more
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Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis
Last week we introduced you to the procurement operations at Europe’s second largest utility company, Enel and its procurement executive in charge of the technology infrastructure and the company processes... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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Universal Challenge: Aligning Processes and Systems (Part 2)
The tough, tough loss by the Celtics last night against a tough, tough defense of the Lakers had two sure results – (1) my start to writing today’s article would... Read more
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Universal Challenge: Aligning Processes and Systems (Part 1)
I’m sitting in on a panel discussion today with two long-standing industry pros (consultants, not CPO-types) at an all-hands procurement department meeting for a large company. The panel is broken... Read more
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Hawk Those Legal Eagles
This past weekend, I caught up with a bunch of friends on a visit to Mt. St. James. One friend is now a partner in the corporate section of the... Read more
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CPO Shop Talk from Ariba LIVE: (1) Clouds (2) P2P Enablement (3) WCO
The eSourcing 2.0 campaign is underway and over the next few months we’ll be taking the campaign to the streets. I’ve already been invited by several procurement leaders to speak... Read more
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Search & Engage: Ron Carcamo, Yahoo!’s CPO (Pt. 2)
Last week, we provided a discussion on embedding procurement within the business. Yesterday, in Part One of this CPO Case Study, we introduced a CPO who’s gone and done it... Read more
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Search & Engage: Ron Carcamo, Yahoo!’s CPO (Pt. 1)
Two months after our formal launch at CPO Rising and things are really starting to heat up. (1) Thank you for your time and interest in support of the site;... Read more