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Is Your AP Dept. Making an Impact on Working Capital? Why Not?
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... Read more
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Procurement Performance: Reporting Out, Managing In – A Case Study
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... Read more
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CPO Shop Talk: SAPPHIRE 2013 Edition
Through a scheduling blunder (not my only of the season), I was a virtual attendee of this year’s SAPPHIRE NOW & ASUG 2013 conference held last week in Orlando. With... Read more
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Keynote from Ariba LIVE 2013: Ramsay Chu
When I last spoke with “friend of the site,” Ramsay Chu in early 2012, he had just been hired as the new Global Head of Procurement (“CPO”) at Rio Tinto... Read more
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Ariba LIVE 2013: Keynote from Down Under
Ariba LIVE was held this week in Washington DC and the analyst team from Ardent Partners was there in full force. Yes, just us and 2,000 customers, staffers, partners, sponsors,... Read more
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CPO News – May 6, 2013
CPOs on the Rise From “CPO” to Chief Executive Northrop Grumman has appointed former British Ministry of Defence (“MoD”) executive in charge of operations and procurement, Andrew Tyler, as Chief... Read more
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CPO Shop Talk (1) Supply Risk (2) More Supply Risk (3) Featured Webinar
After taking 2012 off, the series “CPO Shop Talk” is back. This is the series where, from time to time, we will attempt to share some of the less-formal conversations... Read more
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Intesource Innovation ’13: Raley’s (Procurement) Comet
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... Read more
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Keeping Score
Even the Chief Procurement Officers who focus almost solely on savings realize that procurement can deliver value across a wide range of areas. To misquote Vince Lombardi, “Savings isn’t everything….... Read more
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CPO News – March 1, 2013
All the CPO News That’s Fit to Print New South African Chief Procurement Officer to Lead Transformation and Fight Huge Corruption Earlier this week, South African Minister of Finance, Pravin... Read more