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CPO Shop Talk (SAP Procurement Summit): Contract Management (1) Deployment (2) Feedback (3) Supply Risk
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... Read more
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Scott Singer – Global Procurement Transformation in the Cloud at Rio Tinto (Ariba Live)
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... Read more
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Are You a Servant to Your Master Data?
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I delivered a webinar on Master Data Management The webinar which was sponsored by Zynapse, a division of Zycus, has been archived and can be accessed... Read more
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Webinar: Spend Data Classification
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. ... Read more
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Innovation: Pushing Boundaries at Concur Fusion
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:... Read more
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Aligning Processes and Systems II – Reprise
More on the universal challenge of properly aligning processes and systems… When you talk to procurement organizations large and small about the primary challenges that impede that group’s ability to... Read more
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Aligning Processes and Systems I – Reprise
Traded comments this week with a friend of the site, where I made the point that many challenges facing procurement departments are universal – for both large and small enterprises.... Read more
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eSourcing 2.0: Making the Case – Reprise
Editor’s Note: This article kicked off one of last year’s most popular topics: eSourcing 2.0. For more than a decade, strategic sourcing consultants, professionals, and solution providers have been working... Read more
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More eSourcing Myths – Reprise
Editor’s Note: We continue our look back at articles from our first year by exposing five more commonly-held eSourcing myths (or what are also commonly-used excuses to bypass eSourcing). eSourcing... Read more
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eSourcing Myths (and How to Deconstruct Them) – Reprise
Editor’s Note: One of my favorite topics this past year has been eSourcing 2.0. This code/policy/doctrine was introduced in our articles, research, and presentations in 2010, but was developed over... Read more