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“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring “Sourcing in the 2010s” Report

By Andrew Bartolini December 1, 2011Articles, Events, General, Strategic SourcingNo Comments

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

“Cyber Week” @ CPO Rising: Featuring An AP Business Case Template

By Andrew Bartolini November 29, 2011Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo 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…

Investing in ePayables? What is Your ROI?

By Andrew Bartolini November 22, 2011Articles, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

Today's article is by Vishal Patel, Research Director, ePayables at Ardent Partners. Ardent Partners has initiated its technology coverage with the launch of the ePayables SMARTSet™ - a low-cost, comprehensive…

Bridging the Social Media Gap (Use Case Example)

By Andrew Bartolini November 21, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Today is the third article focused on our view of the potential impact that social networking will have in reshaping Supply Management (or B2B or P2P relationships). The first -…

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…

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…