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Business or Pleasure: How Social Networking Will Reshape Supply Management?

By Andrew Bartolini November 16, 2011Articles, General, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

There has been a paradigm shift in the way people communicate and interact and, social networks are at the core of this shift. The underlying capabilities and drivers behind the…

Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (3)

By Andrew Bartolini November 15, 2011Articles, General, Strategic SourcingNo Comments

Today, our final answer to the question: Do you have any advice for more tenured strategic sourcing teams? What should these teams be doing to prepare for the next 5-10…

Sourcing Pros Must Think Globally and Act Globally (2)

By Andrew Bartolini November 10, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing1 Comment

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)

By Andrew Bartolini November 8, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing1 Comment

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

By Andrew Bartolini November 3, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing1 Comment

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

By Andrew Bartolini October 31, 2011Articles, StrategyNo Comments

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

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…

Getting over the Adoption Hump: Spend Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini October 26, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

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)

By Andrew Bartolini October 24, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

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

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…