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CPO Shop Talk: (1) P&G Purchases on the Rise (2) Sourcing Optimization

By Andrew Bartolini March 30, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

A few items to highlight from CombineNet’s “Sourcing Visionaries” event held yesterday in Chicago. (1) P&G Purchases Uldis Sipols, VP, Global Product Supply Purchases at Procter & Gamble delivered the…

Are You a Servant to Your Master Data?

By Andrew Bartolini March 28, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

A few weeks ago, I delivered a webinar on Master Data Management The webinar which was sponsored by Zynapse, a division of Zycus, has been archived and can be accessed…

CPOs on the Rise in 2011 – One CPO Who Is Making the Grade (Part 1)

By Andrew Bartolini March 23, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

I am glad that I did not have this unnamed Chief Procurement Officer and “friend of the site” for Freshman English. You are too. Trust me. You will see what…

Webinar: Spend Data Classification

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

Just a short lead in for an upcoming webinar that I will be presenting next week. The upcoming webinar is sponsored by Zycus and you can register for it here. …

CPO Shop Talk: (1) Supply Risk in the Ts & Cs (2) Ph.D in Supply Management?

By Andrew Bartolini March 4, 2011Articles, Events, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Our CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series takes a detour to Houston, where earlier this week, I delivered, for the first time, a detailed discussion of my recet research…

Innovation: Pushing Boundaries at Concur Fusion

By Andrew Bartolini February 18, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

Innovation will be a bigger theme at CPO Rising this year, it will also be the central focus of our major research report in the first half of 2011 [Sidebar:…

The Social Network and Business Travel

By Andrew Bartolini February 15, 2011Articles, Events, GeneralNo Comments

After a introducing Six Trends in Business Travel that will impact your travel programs and discussing Why You Need a Dynamic Travel Policy, we’ll close this mini T&E series that…

Why You Need a Dynamic Travel Policy

By Andrew Bartolini February 11, 2011Articles, Events, GeneralNo Comments

The category of business travel is one of the largest controllable categories of spend within the average enterprise. It remains one of the most complex to manage and it is…

Dinner, Drinks, and……. A Roundtable on Sourcing Success

By Andrew Bartolini January 31, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Strategic SourcingNo Comments

Dinner, Drinks, and a Movie Roundtable on Sourcing Success – what could be better? One of the first reports that we published at Ardent Partners, Sourcing in the 2010’s: The…

Master Data Mastery – Strategies to Improve Procurement Performance

By Andrew Bartolini January 20, 2011Articles, Events, General, StrategyNo Comments

I've said it before: The world is becoming more and more data driven. The enterprise is also becoming more and more data driven – whether it is strategic planning or…