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CPO Shop Talk (London Edition): (1) Bravo’s Take on Procurement Value (2) Capital Assets (3) Career Planning

By Andrew Bartolini July 22, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

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…

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,…

CPO Shop Talk (BravoSolution Edition): (1) Strategic Sourcing (2) Perimeter (3) Transportation Spend Management

By Andrew Bartolini May 27, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, Solution Providers, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

BravoSolution’s North American User Conference, held this past Wednesday, delivered a great blend of user case studies, best practices and thought leadership. Set in the heart of Chicago at Café…

CPO Shop Talk (SAP SAPPHIRE Edition): (1) Overview (2) Portfolio Synchronicity (3) Users

By Andrew Bartolini May 25, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

Don't think me unkind, but those procurement pros who were in Orlando last week and spent all of their time at the ISM conference missed another great procurement event just…

CPO Shop Talk (SAP Procurement Summit): Contract Management (1) Deployment (2) Feedback (3) Supply Risk

By Andrew Bartolini May 2, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, Technology2 Comments

Last week brought me to Palo Alto to present the keynote at SAP’s Procurement Summit West, an event that SAP's SRM/Procurement team uses to bring its customers together for networking…

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, &…

Scott Singer – Global Procurement Transformation in the Cloud at Rio Tinto (Ariba Live)

By Andrew Bartolini April 20, 2011Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, Events, General, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

Today’s article focuses on the customer keynote presentation delivered by Scott Singer, Rio Tinto’s Head of Procurement, at Ariba LIVE last week. First, one quick story about Scott that, I…

Are You a Servant to Your Master Data?

By Andrew Bartolini March 28, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

A few weeks ago, I delivered a webinar on Master Data Management The webinar which was sponsored by Zynapse, a division of Zycus, has been archived and can be accessed…

Webinar: Spend Data Classification

By Andrew Bartolini March 14, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

Just a short lead in for an upcoming webinar that I will be presenting next week. The upcoming webinar is sponsored by Zycus and you can register for it here. …

Innovation: Pushing Boundaries at Concur Fusion

By Andrew Bartolini February 18, 2011Articles, Events, General, Solution Providers, TechnologyNo Comments

Innovation will be a bigger theme at CPO Rising this year, it will also be the central focus of our major research report in the first half of 2011 [Sidebar:…