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I delivered a webinar on Master Data Management The webinar which was sponsored by Zynapse, a division of Zycus, has been archived and can be accessed…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

Aligning Processes and Systems II – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 14, 2011Articles, General, Process, Technology1 Comment

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…

Aligning Processes and Systems I – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 13, 2011Articles, General, Process, TechnologyNo Comments

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.…

eSourcing 2.0: Making the Case – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 7, 2011Articles, General, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

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…

More eSourcing Myths – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 6, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

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…

eSourcing Myths (and How to Deconstruct Them) – Reprise

By Andrew Bartolini January 5, 2011Articles, General, Lists, Strategic Sourcing, Technology1 Comment

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…

ROA – Software (Maintenance & Support)

By Andrew Bartolini December 20, 2010Articles, General, Strategy, TechnologyNo Comments

In this Return on Assets series, we have previously discussed how improving the usage of sourcing/procurement software can improve your returns (here and here). Yes, software can be a huge…