An ePayables Primer – (1) The Challenges
Right around the time I left Ariba to enter the analyst ranks in mid-2006, Ariba began making a big push into accounts payable automation which surprised me given my context…
Ardent Partners – Open for Business (Summer Version)
July 14 is a day of revolution for one proud nation. As I write this article, I am in the town where many Patriots awoke 234 years ago, rode a…
Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2B)
We’ll hop right into today’s article which follows this article (link) chronologically as part of an extended series where we have gotten to know Mario Mosca (amico del sito) and…
CPO Shop Talk: (1) Meetings to Make Decisions (2) On Winning
Meetings to Make Decisions I recently caught up with a Chief Procurement Officer who finds himself in the early part of a procurement transformation journey. He's not a career procurement…
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…
People Get Ready, the Visibility Train is Coming
Dateline: Sunday June 27 – FIFA World Cup Round of 16: Germany 4 England 1 Full Story on Lampard’s goal that never was. Replay of Lampard's goal that never was.…
BIG Trends
In business circles, supply management is the new black. Next week, I will be discussing some of the BIG Trends that I see shaping spend (or supply) management in the…
Mario Mosca – Energizing Procurement at Enel (Part 2)
Today, Part Two of our CPO Case Study with Mario Mosca, Head of Procurement, Processes and Systems, for Enel Energy in Rome will look at the supply management solutions and…
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…
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…