A “Must-Have” AP Metric
Following up on Wednesday’s Monday Morning Query (Offering a "Monday" series on a Wednesday is what happens when you spend two full weeks at conferences in Orlando; it’s gonna leave…
MMQ – What is the “Must-Have” AP Performance Metric?
So, it is not Monday (where we occasionally publish our Monday Morning Query series) and this is the third AP/ePayables focused article in a row. Guilty as charged! This article…
Reflections on FUSION 2011 – Part 2
Before we get started with the article, I want to thank everyone who has taken the survey to my upcoming report so far – The response has been great, but…
Reflections on FUSION 2011 – Part 1
Dateline: May 8-12 Event: FUSION 2011 Host: The Institute of Financial Operations Place: Orlando Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center The newly rebranded Institute of Financial Operations (“IFO”) hosted its…
Collaborative Sourcing and Other Thoughts
I was originally planning to write an article discussing the Collaborative Sourcing session that I participated in last week at Ariba LIVE (along with sourcing leaders from BB&T, Coach, &…
Scott Singer – Global Procurement Transformation in the Cloud at Rio Tinto (Ariba Live)
Today’s article focuses on the customer keynote presentation delivered by Scott Singer, Rio Tinto’s Head of Procurement, at Ariba LIVE last week. First, one quick story about Scott that, I…
CPO Shop Talk (Ariba LIVE Version): (1) Supplier Enablement’s Long Tail (2) ACH Payments
Ariba’s North American Conference Ariba LIVE 2011 was held last week in Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland Resort [Sidebar: What a great place to hold an event! More on…
CPO Shop Talk: (1) Happy Anniversary CPO Rising (2) eSourcing 2.0 Enacted
CPO Rising Celebrates One Year Anniversary! Although we technically started publishing articles on CPO Rising on Jan 1, 2010, we waited until April 1, 2010 to announce its existence to…
CPO Shop Talk: (1) P&G Purchases on the Rise (2) Sourcing Optimization
A few items to highlight from CombineNet’s “Sourcing Visionaries” event held yesterday in Chicago. (1) P&G Purchases Uldis Sipols, VP, Global Product Supply Purchases at Procter & Gamble delivered the…
Webinar: Spend Data Classification
Just a short lead in for an upcoming webinar that I will be presenting next week. The upcoming webinar is sponsored by Zycus and you can register for it here. …