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Universal Challenge: Aligning Processes and Systems (Part 1)

By Andrew Bartolini June 16, 2010Articles, General, Process, Technology1 Comment

I’m sitting in on a panel discussion today with two long-standing industry pros (consultants, not CPO-types) at an all-hands procurement department meeting for a large company. The panel is broken…

Hawk Those Legal Eagles

By Andrew Bartolini June 7, 2010Articles, General, Process, StrategyNo Comments

This past weekend, I caught up with a bunch of friends on a visit to Mt. St. James. One friend is now a partner in the corporate section of the…

CPO Shop Talk from Ariba LIVE: (1) Clouds (2) P2P Enablement (3) WCO

By Andrew Bartolini June 4, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

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)

By Andrew Bartolini June 2, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, StrategyNo Comments

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)

By Andrew Bartolini June 1, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy2 Comments

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

By Andrew Bartolini May 28, 2010Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

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

By Andrew Bartolini May 26, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy2 Comments

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

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…