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Non-Price Attributes – Buying Behavior (Bid Structure) and Variable Cost Components

By Andrew Bartolini February 1, 2012Articles, General, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Since introducing the "Non-Price Attributes" series here, we have discussed the following: Supplier Market Share Quality & Past Performance Production and Delivery Capabilities Who the Supplier Is Next on our…

Seven Trends that Will Impact Supply Management in 2012

By Andrew Bartolini January 30, 2012Articles, Events, General, Lists, Solution Providers, StrategyNo Comments

To kick off 2010 (and this site), I published a series of ten lists - our "10 for 2010" - where we made predictions, highlighted strategies, identified leaders [Sidebar: I…

ePayables Daily Double

By Andrew Bartolini January 11, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

Two good bets today – play to win! (1) Top Tips for Building an AP Automation Business Case & Calculating Your ROI We supported Cyber Week 2011 with a “net…

The Path to Paperless [Webinar]

By Andrew Bartolini January 5, 2012Articles, Events, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

Our 2011 research agenda ended with a big focus on ePayables; so, not surprisingly, our busy event/speaking calendar kicks off with a bang next week as we co-present in a…

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring “Corporate” Site Sponsors

By Andrew Bartolini December 2, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

Our final Cyber Week "promotion" is today. We want to thank our readers and our Chief Procurement Officer "friends of the site" for making CPO Rising one of the most-visited…

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring Lead Sponsor BravoSolution

By Andrew Bartolini November 30, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

For “Cyber Week,” we are running a few "promotions"- for our sponsors and for our own time-sensitive, cyber-promotions of the research over on Ardent Partners (they will be time-sensitive, so…

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring Lead Sponsor Hubwoo

By Andrew Bartolini November 28, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

Thank you for taking time out of your frenzied shopping schedule to visit us today. Today is Cyber Monday. What began as an afterthought to “Black Friday,” six years ago…

CPO Shop Talk (1) An Adoption Roundtrip (2) Webinar Nov 1 (3) Market Alert

By Andrew Bartolini October 28, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategic SourcingNo Comments

(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…

The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini October 20, 2011Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology1 Comment

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

By Andrew Bartolini October 19, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy3 Comments

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…