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The eSourcing 2.0 Campaign Trail

By Andrew Bartolini May 21, 2010Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology4 Comments

Like any good successful politician (good politician = oxymoron), I am trying to stay on message with the eSourcing 2.0 campaign (Source, Baby, Source!). It’s a grass-roots movement and we…

eSourcing 2.0: Use of Auction Policy (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini May 14, 2010Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Last Friday, we presented the current Use of Auctions policy in place at the company of one CPO Rising’s reader’s. Today, I’ll offer some in-line commentary. About CompanyName’s Use of…

CPO Shop Talk: (1) Procurement Outsourcing (2) Getting Started

By Andrew Bartolini May 10, 2010Articles, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy3 Comments

Shop Talk. Sharp Talk. CPO Shop Talk. From time to time I will attempt to share some of the less-formal conversations that I have with Chief Procurement Officers and CPO-types…

eSourcing 2.0: Use of Auction Policy

By Andrew Bartolini May 7, 2010Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

As you recall, the case for eSourcing 2.0 is one of compliance, visibility, knowledge capture, and efficiency, not necessarily one of negotiation strategy (i.e. If you want to run a…

Cross Pollination

By Andrew Bartolini May 5, 2010Articles, General, People, Process, Strategy6 Comments

I had an interesting call on Monday with two recent grads from a top-tier Supply Chain program that are now both part of a global supply chain rotation program at…

Debate: Mandate or Sell? Implementing eSourcing 2.0

By Andrew Bartolini April 30, 2010Articles, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology7 Comments

Quiz: How should a Chief Procurement Officer implement eSourcing 2.0? (WWCPOD?) (Answer found at bottom of page) Our ongoing discussion of eSourcing 2.0 picks up from last Friday’s article which…

Are You Experienced?

By Andrew Bartolini April 28, 2010Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology2 Comments

Have you ever been experienced? Well, I have…. Actually I haven’t. Wait, now I’m not sure, what are we talking about again? Like most other days at CPO Rising, today…

eSourcing 2.0: Making the Case

By Andrew Bartolini April 23, 2010Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology8 Comments

Now that I've made it home, I’m going to spend the next few Fridays drilling down into the concept of eSourcing 2.0 which was introduced on the site earlier this…

Planes, Trains, and (Auto)-Mobility

By Andrew Bartolini April 19, 2010Articles, Process, Technology1 Comment

After the breakup of The Sugarcubes, I was pretty sure that nothing that ever happened in Iceland would have a big impact on my life. I was wrong. Curses, Eyjafjallajökull!!!…

Spend Analysis, Italian Style

By Andrew Bartolini April 16, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology2 Comments

We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming…. Two of my favorite things: (1) waking up in Italy and (2) talking about spend analysis. Despite my 90-year old Nonna’s…