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Webinar – Collaborative Sourcing: Achieving the Next Wave of Sourcing Savings

By Andrew Bartolini June 27, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology4 Comments

Editor's Note: An archive of this webinar is available by clicking here; while the report that fueled my portion of it is available here (registration required at each) Next Wednesday,…

Webinar: Innovative Ideas for the Decade Ahead

By Andrew Bartolini June 10, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

It's coming together The data from respondents (218) has been captured and analyzed [Sidebar: huge thanks to all – the final report should hit your inbox in early July. Also,…

CPO Shop Talk (BravoSolution Edition): (1) Strategic Sourcing (2) Perimeter (3) Transportation Spend Management

By Andrew Bartolini May 27, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

BravoSolution’s North American User Conference, held this past Wednesday, delivered a great blend of user case studies, best practices and thought leadership. Set in the heart of Chicago at Café…

CPO Shop Talk (SAP SAPPHIRE Edition): (1) Overview (2) Portfolio Synchronicity (3) Users

By Andrew Bartolini May 25, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

Don't think me unkind, but those procurement pros who were in Orlando last week and spent all of their time at the ISM conference missed another great procurement event just…

Reflections on FUSION 2011 – Part 2

By Andrew Bartolini May 16, 2011Articles, Events, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers2 Comments

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…

CPO Shop Talk (SAP Procurement Summit): Contract Management (1) Deployment (2) Feedback (3) Supply Risk

By Andrew Bartolini May 2, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology2 Comments

Last week brought me to Palo Alto to present the keynote at SAP’s Procurement Summit West, an event that SAP's SRM/Procurement team uses to bring its customers together for networking…

Collaborative Sourcing and Other Thoughts

By Andrew Bartolini April 21, 2011Articles, Events, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic SourcingNo Comments

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)

By Andrew Bartolini April 20, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

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

By Andrew Bartolini April 18, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

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

By Andrew Bartolini April 4, 2011Articles, General, Process, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

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…