Category Sourcing Scorecard – Supplier Factors
We're using the ocean waves and surfing images during the creation of our virtual Category Sourcing Scorecard because the purpose of this tool is to help sourcing teams vet and…
Category Sourcing Scorecard – Market Factors
Continuing our discussion/development of a Category Sourcing Scorecard, today we will focus on Market Factors. Last time, we evaluated Internal Factors which look at the organization, the sourcing team, and…
Category Sourcing Scorecard – Internal Factors
While working on the recent articles that have focused on the importance of developing and maintaining an active Sourcing Pipeline and how to identify the best sourcing opportunities, I started…
Sourcing Waves
Exerting influence on spend or, better yet, exerting proactive influence on spend is one of the major goals (compliance is another) in placing spend under management. When it comes to…
Sourcing for Value: Using Non-Price Attributes to Find the Best Suppliers
We recently published a series focused on the use of non-price attributes to improve the sourcing and supplier selection process. And now, that series has spawned a webinar and a…
ePayables 101: Graduation
Congratulations! If you've read the links below, you have successfully completed CPO Rising's ePayables 101 course, an immersion program focused on AP Automation and Transformation. The Challenges The Opportunities The…
ePayables 101: More Metrics
ePayables 101 - More Metrics Today we’ll look at the other key metrics (besides the average cost per invoice discussed last time) that can help an AP department better understand…
ePayables 101: The Metrics
ePayables 101 - The Metrics Part 4 of our ePayables 101 series starts right in with a discussion of the key AP performance metric that can be used to build…
ePayables 101: The Approach
We continue to build out our ePayables 101 series with this article focused on how to begin a push for AP transformation or "The Approach" (The first two articles are…
ePayables 101: The Opportunities
ePayables 101 – The Opportunities Last time, the ePayables 101 series began with a look at some (but, not all) of the key challenges facing the average accounts payable organization…