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Source or Lose 2012: Campaign Kickoff

By Andrew Bartolini October 9, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Good morning. We interrupt this 'steady stream of engaging and informative procurement-themed articles' with this update: News reports over the Columbus Day weekend that the somewhat boring completely depressing U.S.…

Case Closed: How to Build a Winning Business Case in Seven Easy Steps

By Andrew Bartolini October 1, 2012Articles, Events, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

UPDATE: The webinar discussed below is now available by clicking the following archive link (registration required). The fall event season has officially begun. Accordingly, I will try to update you…

What’s in Your Sourcing “Tackle Box?”

By Andrew Bartolini September 7, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing

King of the deadpan, Steven Wright once quipped that "there's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." (click link to view actual quip)…

Teach a Team to Source and it Saves for a Lifetime

By Andrew Bartolini September 5, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing

Sorry for the slow start this week, but my first Labor Day without a Telethon has thrown off my timing - ok, not really :-).... Anyway, welcome back, I hope…

Swifter, Higher, Stronger in 2012

By Andrew Bartolini August 8, 2012Articles, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

The London 2012 Olympics are still going full throttle through this Sunday and I've been doing my best to watch as much as I can. This year, approximately 10,500 athletes…

How eSourcing Can Help Limit Procurement Fraud

By Andrew Bartolini July 30, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Long time readers of this site know that I am a strong advocate for eSourcing. I am an advocate based upon extensive first-hand experience developing, using, researching, and evaluating eSourcing…

Instant Analysis: SciQuest Sees “Upside” in Contract Lifecycle Management (II)

By Andrew Bartolini July 27, 2012Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Yesterday, in Part One of this story, we provided some background and then outlined the news from SciQuest (Ticker: SQI) that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Contract…

Instant Analysis: SciQuest Sees “Upside” in Contract Lifecycle Management (I)

By Andrew Bartolini July 26, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology

On Tuesday, after the market closed, SciQuest (ticker: SQI), a provider of cloud-based supply management solutions, announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Upside Software Inc. ("Upside"),…

The Category Sourcing Scorecard – Summary

By Andrew Bartolini July 11, 2012Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

The Category Sourcing Scorecard series, which was published last month, introduced the key inputs to a "virtual" tool or framework that teams could use to build out their sourcing pipelines.…

Category Sourcing Scorecard – Category Specific Factors

By Andrew Bartolini June 29, 2012Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy

Yesterday, we completed our discussion of the unique buying factors that help determine a category's suitability for sourcing. Today we tackle the final subset of considerations for the virtual Category…