The Gold Standard
Over the course of my career in supply management, I have had the great fortune to work with a large number of highly successful CPOs and procurement organizations that have…
P2P Tastes Great at MillerCoors
Bill Dempsey, Director of Procurement and Strategic Sourcing at MillerCoors ("MC") kicked off the 18th Annual NAPP Conference in Marina Del Rey this past Monday with a Keynote Address entitled…
Accounts Payable Automation: Choose or Lose
Are you striving for accounts payable gold or just looking to compete? If your answer is "yes" to either option then you may be interested in a webinar (free registration)…
Swifter, Higher, Stronger
The 2010 Winter Olympics begin tonight with more than 2,600 athletes from 83 countries traveling to Vancouver to compete in 86 events over the next 17 days. Many Olympians will…
10 for 2010: Strategies to Improve Accounts Payable
I have a good feeling about Accounts Payable (AP) in this decade. In recent years, there has been increasing momentum within the marketplace for AP transformation. Not the kind of…
10 for 2010: ROA – Areas to Improve Your Returns
If the US government could collect a dollar for every article, report, or presentation with a “Doing More with Less” theme created in recent times, its deficit issues might be…
10 for 2010: eSourcing Myths (and How to Deconstruct Them)
eSourcing Manifesto eSourcing 2.0: Every negotiation that results in an executed contract should use an eSourcing solution. The eSourcing manifesto code that I introduced in 2009 via research[i] and other…
10 for 2010: Solution Providers to Discover in 2010
Earlier this month, I provided a list of 10 providers of supply management solutions and then another list of 10 providers of ePayables solutions to watch in 2010. This next…
10 for 2010: Categories to Source in 2010
Change is constant. “Change is inevitable (except from a vending machine).”* But in this new year, this new decade, we find that many things have not changed. We are still…
Spend Analysis: A Shot in the Arm for BETTER Sourcing
We interrupt the “10 for 2010” series to highlight a webinar (free registration) that I will be participating on Wednesday that looks at best practices in using spend visibility to…