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Case Study – Procurement Transformation in the Mid-market (Healthcare)

By Andrew Bartolini November 8, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Since launching Ardent Partners this summer, I have been spending a good deal of time introducing the firm to the different solution providers in the supply management space. One of…

Supply Risk and its Potential to Negatively Impact Revenue

By Andrew Bartolini October 20, 2010Articles, General, Strategy2 Comments

If you are looking for another example of the importance of procurement and its impact on revenue and profits, just pick up today’s business section of your newspaper do a…

Lillevik in the Field: Webster Bank’s First CPO

By Andrew Bartolini September 15, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

I recently caught up with CPO on the rise and “friend of the site,” Anders Lillevik to check on how his procurement transformation project, which began when he joined Webster…

Fraud Prevention (2) – CPO Strategies

By Andrew Bartolini August 24, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Today, we follow up on our last article, which discussed procurement fraud and Apple's bad apple, Paul Shin Devine, who has been accused of taking more than $1 million in…

Luca Guzzabocca – Banking on Procurement (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini August 12, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Technology5 Comments

In our last article, we introduced you to "friend of the site," Luca Guzzabocca, the Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE, Security Management (or “Chief Procurement Officer”) at Banca Monte Dei…

Luca Guzzabocca: Banking on Procurement (Part 1)

By Andrew Bartolini August 10, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, PeopleNo Comments

There are certain people who come to epitomize their community while also being active participants in it. Sometimes they become statesmen, like Warren Buffet, who’s played that role for the…

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…

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…