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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…

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. …

Dinner, Drinks, and……. A Roundtable on Sourcing Success

By Andrew Bartolini January 31, 2011Articles, Events, General, Process, Strategic SourcingNo Comments

Dinner, Drinks, and a Movie Roundtable on Sourcing Success – what could be better? One of the first reports that we published at Ardent Partners, Sourcing in the 2010’s: The…

The Formula

By Andrew Bartolini November 3, 2010Articles, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

I find it interesting that Ardent Partners’ recently published research report, Sourcing in the 2010s: The Formula for Success (registration required), is, at its core, a report about spend analysis.…

Sourcing – The Formula for Success

By Andrew Bartolini October 29, 2010Articles, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology4 Comments

We’re pleased to announce that Ardent Partners, a leading analyst firm focused on supply management (and in case you forgot, the partner entity to CPO Rising), has published its first…

Monday Morning Query: When Will Spend Analysis Start Working More Like Google?

By Andrew Bartolini October 4, 2010Articles, General, Strategy, Technology2 Comments

As we progress from the Future of P2P (more this week) to the Future of Strategic Sourcing technology we will inevitably spend time talking about Spend Analysis; ahead of that,…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis (Part 2B)

By Andrew Bartolini July 12, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

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)

By Andrew Bartolini July 9, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, People, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

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…

Enel: Making the Case for Spend Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini July 2, 2010Articles, Chief Procurement Officers, General, People, Process, Strategic Sourcing, TechnologyNo Comments

Last week we introduced you to the procurement operations at Europe's second largest utility company, Enel and its procurement executive in charge of the technology infrastructure and the company processes…

People Get Ready, the Visibility Train is Coming

By Andrew Bartolini June 30, 2010Articles, General, TechnologyNo Comments

Dateline: Sunday June 27 – FIFA World Cup Round of 16: Germany 4 England 1 Full Story on Lampard’s goal that never was. Replay of Lampard's goal that never was.…