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I delivered a webinar on Master Data Management The webinar which was sponsored by Zynapse, a division of Zycus, has been archived and can be accessed…

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…

ROA – Now Showing: “The Return of eProcurement”

By Andrew Bartolini December 17, 2010Articles, General, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Our ROA (Return on Assets) series continues... In the movie business, “Returns” can mean big "returns" at the box office – Just ask the King or the Jedi or two…