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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…

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. …

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…

Embedded – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 21, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, StrategyNo Comments

Another big procurement issue is how to collaborate and engage with the business. This article looks at one way strategy that can help achieve both: Today we will focus on…

Aligning Processes and Systems II – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 14, 2011Articles, General, Process, Technology1 Comment

More on the universal challenge of properly aligning processes and systems... When you talk to procurement organizations large and small about the primary challenges that impede that group’s ability to…

Aligning Processes and Systems I – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 13, 2011Articles, General, Process, TechnologyNo Comments

Traded comments this week with a friend of the site, where I made the point that many challenges facing procurement departments are universal - for both large and small enterprises.…

The Gold Standard – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 11, 2011Articles, Process, Strategy2 Comments

Among other topics, Ardent Partners' upcoming report The CFO and the CPO: One World, Two Worldviews tackles the big issue of procurement performance measurement. This article looks at a golden…

eSourcing 2.0: Making the Case – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 7, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Editor’s Note: This article kicked off one of last year’s most popular topics: eSourcing 2.0. For more than a decade, strategic sourcing consultants, professionals, and solution providers have been working…

More eSourcing Myths – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 6, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

Editor's Note: We continue our look back at articles from our first year by exposing five more commonly-held eSourcing myths (or what are also commonly-used excuses to bypass eSourcing). eSourcing…

eSourcing Myths (and How to Deconstruct Them) – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 5, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

Editor's Note: One of my favorite topics this past year has been eSourcing 2.0. This code/policy/doctrine was introduced in our articles, research, and presentations in 2010, but was developed over…