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CPO Shop Talk: (1) P&G Purchases on the Rise (2) Sourcing Optimization

By Andrew Bartolini March 30, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

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…

Are You a Servant to Your Master Data?

By Andrew Bartolini March 28, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

A few weeks ago, I delivered a webinar on Master Data Management The webinar which was sponsored by Zynapse, a division of Zycus, has been archived and can be accessed…

The CFO and the CPO: One World, Two Worldviews

By Andrew Bartolini March 18, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

We are only in the early stages of our Chief Procurement Officers on the Rise in 2011, but before we resume, I wanted to highlight a few excerpts from my…

Webinar: Spend Data Classification

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

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. …

Innovation: Pushing Boundaries at Concur Fusion

By Andrew Bartolini February 18, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

Innovation will be a bigger theme at CPO Rising this year, it will also be the central focus of our major research report in the first half of 2011 [Sidebar:…

Six Trends in Business Travel

By Andrew Bartolini February 9, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

Business Travel or T&E is my favorite complex category of spend because (a) it is large and has many moving parts and stakeholders, (b) procurement departments with their sourcing strategies…

Aligning Processes and Systems II – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 14, 2011Articles, General, Process, Technology1 Comment

More on the universal challenge of properly aligning processes and systems... When you talk to procurement organizations large and small about the primary challenges that impede that group’s ability to…

Aligning Processes and Systems I – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 13, 2011Articles, General, Process, TechnologyNo Comments

Traded comments this week with a friend of the site, where I made the point that many challenges facing procurement departments are universal - for both large and small enterprises.…

eSourcing 2.0: Making the Case – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 7, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Editor’s Note: This article kicked off one of last year’s most popular topics: eSourcing 2.0. For more than a decade, strategic sourcing consultants, professionals, and solution providers have been working…

More eSourcing Myths – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 6, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

Editor's Note: We continue our look back at articles from our first year by exposing five more commonly-held eSourcing myths (or what are also commonly-used excuses to bypass eSourcing). eSourcing…