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Category Sourcing Scorecard – Category Specific Factors

By Andrew Bartolini June 29, 2012Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Yesterday, we completed our discussion of the unique buying factors that help determine a category's suitability for sourcing. Today we tackle the final subset of considerations for the virtual Category…

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Buying Factors (II)

By Andrew Bartolini June 27, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Today, Part 2 of the Buying Factors that impact (1) the ease in which a category may be sourced (2) the likelihood of favorable results and (3) the timing and…

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Buying Factors (I)

By Andrew Bartolini June 26, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

There are many different factors that can influence (1) the ease in which a category may be sourced (2) the likelihood of favorable results and (3) the timing and organizational…

Introducing Payables Place

By Andrew Bartolini June 18, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

For the past six years, the analysts (Andrew Bartolini & Vishal Patel) at Ardent Partners have been closely covering the ePayables (or AP Automation) market. During that time, we've published…

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Supplier Factors

By Andrew Bartolini June 15, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

We're using the ocean waves and surfing images during the creation of our virtual Category Sourcing Scorecard because the purpose of this tool is to help sourcing teams vet and…

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Market Factors

By Andrew Bartolini June 13, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Continuing our discussion/development of a Category Sourcing Scorecard, today we will focus on Market Factors. Last time, we evaluated Internal Factors which look at the organization, the sourcing team, and…

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Internal Factors

By Andrew Bartolini June 5, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

While working on the recent articles that have focused on the importance of developing and maintaining an active Sourcing Pipeline and how to identify the best sourcing opportunities, I started…

Sourcing Waves

By Andrew Bartolini June 1, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Exerting influence on spend or, better yet, exerting proactive influence on spend is one of the major goals (compliance is another) in placing spend under management. When it comes to…

Sourcing for Value: Using Non-Price Attributes to Find the Best Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini May 25, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

We recently published a series focused on the use of non-price attributes to improve the sourcing and supplier selection process. And now, that series has spawned a webinar and a…

ePayables 101: Graduation

By Andrew Bartolini May 14, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

Congratulations! If you've read the links below, you have successfully completed CPO Rising's ePayables 101 course, an immersion program focused on AP Automation and Transformation. The Challenges The Opportunities The…