CPO Shop Talk from Ariba LIVE: (1) Clouds (2) P2P Enablement (3) WCO
The eSourcing 2.0 campaign is underway and over the next few months we’ll be taking the campaign to the streets. I’ve already been invited by several procurement leaders to speak…
Search & Engage: Ron Carcamo, Yahoo!’s CPO (Pt. 2)
Last week, we provided a discussion on embedding procurement within the business. Yesterday, in Part One of this CPO Case Study, we introduced a CPO who’s gone and done it…
Search & Engage: Ron Carcamo, Yahoo!’s CPO (Pt. 1)
Two months after our formal launch at CPO Rising and things are really starting to heat up. (1) Thank you for your time and interest in support of the site;…
eSourcing 2.0: Campaign Kickoff
Good morning. We are here today to announce our campaign for eSourcing 2.0 as the policy of choice for procurement departments great and small around the globe. We all made…
Embedded
At several of the events that I have spoken at in April and May, my presentation theme has paralleled one of the 10 or 2010 articles written to kick off…
The eSourcing 2.0 Campaign Trail
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)
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
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
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
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…