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Is Your AP Dept. Making an Impact on Working Capital? Why Not?

By Vishal Patel June 7, 2013Articles, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Strategy, Technology

Changing the standard payment terms in supplier contracts is one way that procurement departments are impacting working capital. It was a popular strategy in 2009-2010 like when we wrote about with…

Procurement Performance: Reporting Out, Managing In – A Case Study

By Andrew Bartolini June 6, 2013Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy

I recently caught up with a procurement executive and "friend of the site" to discuss eProcurement systems and the complexity of managing back-end systems for a company that has been…

Intesource Innovation ’13: Raley’s (Procurement) Comet

By Andrew Bartolini March 13, 2013Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Solution Providers, Strategy1 Comment

I just spent the last two days in Phoenix for Intesource’s annual user conference, Innovation ’13. Intesource is a provider of cloud-based sourcing solutions and sourcing services that has a…

The Dog Days of Summer

By Andrew Bartolini August 21, 2012Articles, General, People, Strategy

With apologies to our growing contingent of Chief Procurement Officers and other readers based in the southern hemisphere who are hip-deep into winter – please set a reminder in your…

CPO Rising Tournament 2012 – Finale

By Andrew Bartolini April 11, 2012Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Strategic Sourcing

The Finale, Finally!! Ladies, Gentlemen, and procurement fans of all ages, we, once again and for the last time in 2012, welcome you to March Madness, Chief Procurement Officer Style,…

The CPO’s Final Four

By Andrew Bartolini April 9, 2012Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Strategic Sourcing1 Comment

What is the best CPO tool or strategy in 2012? Our field of 32 determines this year’s champion Welcome to March Madness, Chief Procurement Officer Style, where the different procurement…

Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (2)

By Andrew Bartolini October 24, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

Our CPOs on the Rise series continues today with Part Two of a Q&A with another "friend of the site" - Daniel Warn (Part One is found here). Dan is…

The Path to P2P Excellence Runs Through Finance and Procurement

By Andrew Bartolini October 20, 2011Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology1 Comment

In our last article, we discussed the opportunity that exists for many enterprises to improve their P2P operations (P2P is defined more broadly as Procurement and Accounts Payable - not…

CPO & CFO: Building a More Perfect Union

By Andrew Bartolini October 19, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, Solution Providers, Strategy3 Comments

We keep finding ourselves drawn to the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) - Chief Procurement Officer (“CPO”) relationship story because it is one of the most difficult and challenging within the…

Q&A with Daniel Warn, CPO of BCBSRI (1)

By Andrew Bartolini October 17, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Strategy1 Comment

Last month I had the opportunity to participate in a webinar that focused on the issues of procurement performance and procurement value and the fundamental differences that exist between the…