CPO News – March 7, 2012
L'Oreal's CPO is Rising - Barbara Lavernos Takes Top Post Breaking News: Barbara Lavernos, Chief Procurement Officer for the L’Oréal Group has just been appointed the Managing Director of "L’Oréal Luxe…
CPO News – January 9, 2012
While we work hard to make the articles on CPO Rising as interesting, informative, and entertaining as we possibly can (I hope we're succeeding), we also hope that the articles…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling all Suppliers
CPOs on the Rise in 2011 continues - In our last article we introduced you to an EMEA-based Chief Procurement Officer who works for a company that operates in 38…
CPOs on the Rise in 2011: Calling All Suppliers
So, where were we? Ahh, that’s right – the CPOs on the Rise in 2011 series is back and with a big push coming up we plan to focus on…
CPO Shop Talk (London Edition): (1) Bravo’s Take on Procurement Value (2) Capital Assets (3) Career Planning
The second part of this week (and the reason for the late timing of this article) found me in London for two procurement-related events on behalf of BravoSolution (Bravo also…
CPOs on the Rise: Q&A with Luca Guzzaboca
Luca Guzzabocca, the Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE and Security Management at Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. (of the Montepaschi Group) has returned with us today to join…
Luca Guzzabocca – Banking on Procurement (Part 2)
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)
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)
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)
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…