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STEP CHANGE: How Business Networks are Changing the Procurement Paradigm

By Andrew Bartolini November 30, 2012Articles, Events, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology3 Comments

With all of the recent market activity, it is not surprising that more and more people are talking about and focusing on Business Networks (sometimes referred to as B2B, Supplier,…

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…

Keeping Time

By Andrew Bartolini December 8, 2011Articles, General, People, StrategyNo Comments

While our last article, Making Music, was based on a real-world scenario (huge disconnect between two groups in large company) that I recently experienced while working with one client, the…

Making Music

By Andrew Bartolini December 6, 2011Articles, General, PeopleNo Comments

I was recently involved in a very interesting situation where one group ("Group 1") within a large global company pursued an opportunity that it felt it was equipped to support.…

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…

Case Study from the Collaborative Sourcing Report

By Andrew Bartolini August 4, 2011Articles, General, People, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

In our last article, we discussed Ardent Partners' recent report focused on Collaborative Sourcing which we define as the process "which blends traditional sourcing approaches with more robust category strategies,…

Collaborative Sourcing

By Andrew Bartolini August 2, 2011Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

The value driven by the average sourcing team over the last decade has, in many cases, been significant and transformative. But, competitive forces at play in a rapidly changing business…

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,…

Keeping Score

By Andrew Bartolini April 29, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, GeneralNo Comments

In the survey for our upcoming research report, we pose the question: Savings impact on procurement bonuses: To what extent do savings results drive your bonus structure? Less than 25%…

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, &…