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CPO Shop Talk – More Webinar Q&A

By Andrew Bartolini July 26, 2010Articles, General, People, Process, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

This edition of Chief Procurement Officer Shop Talk is part two of the Q&A portion of a webinar that I delivered on July 7th for Zycus - an archive of…

An ePayables Primer – (2) The Opportunities

By Andrew Bartolini July 23, 2010Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

ePayables Primer Part 2 – The Opportunities We started building this ePayables Primer last week with a look at some (but, not all) of the key challenges facing the average…

CPO Shop Talk: Webinar Q&A

By Andrew Bartolini July 19, 2010Articles, General, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

This edition of Chief Procurement Officer Shop Talk comes directly from the Q&A portion of the webinar that I delivered on July 7th for Zycus. I describe the webinar here…

An ePayables Primer – (1) The Challenges

By Andrew Bartolini July 16, 2010Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, TechnologyNo Comments

Right around the time I left Ariba to enter the analyst ranks in mid-2006, Ariba began making a big push into accounts payable automation which surprised me given my context…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2B)

By Andrew Bartolini July 12, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

We’ll hop right into today’s article which follows this article (link) chronologically as part of an extended series where we have gotten to know Mario Mosca (amico del sito) and…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2A)

By Andrew Bartolini July 9, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

We continue today with Part 2A of our case study of how Enel, Europe’s second largest utility company with annual revenue exceeding 64 billion €, made its case for an…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini July 2, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

Last week we introduced you to the procurement operations at Europe's second largest utility company, Enel and its procurement executive in charge of the technology infrastructure and the company processes…

People Get Ready, the Visibility Train is Coming

By Andrew Bartolini June 30, 2010Articles, General, TechnologyNo Comments

Dateline: Sunday June 27 – FIFA World Cup Round of 16: Germany 4 England 1 Full Story on Lampard’s goal that never was. Replay of Lampard's goal that never was.…

BIG Trends

By Andrew Bartolini June 28, 2010Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

In business circles, supply management is the new black. Next week, I will be discussing some of the BIG Trends that I see shaping spend (or supply) management in the…

Mario Mosca – Energizing Procurement at Enel (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini June 25, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Today, Part Two of our CPO Case Study with Mario Mosca, Head of Procurement, Processes and Systems, for Enel Energy in Rome will look at the supply management solutions and…