Auctions
Gartner recently named Source One’s free WhyAbe.com platform as a Cool Vendor in Procurement and Finance for 2008. This is a big score for the sourcing and contract management toolset, when you consider that not many sourcing providers get this recognition from Gartner and that previous winners have included FreeFlow, Vinimaya, and BIQ - [...]
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Just like we did in the X-emplification series, we’re going to start with e-RFX and e-Auction as we tackle the generic questions that you should be asking every vendor, and the types of answers you should be expecting. 1. What do I have to do to get a good handle on how to make [...]
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So, I bet you’re all wondering - what’s to x-emplify? I’m sure you’re saying that it’s just RFx and e-Auction … it’s been around for 10 years … and it’s pretty self explanatory. My answer to that is that you’d think it should be, but given the wide range of capabilities that exist [...]
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With respect to e-Auctions, there’s a host of myths out there that need to be busted. Where-forth they sprang from, I don’t know, but to the graveyard, they must go! I’ll start with some of the more dangerous ones, and maybe the experts from e-Sourcing Forum and Where Next will chime in with [...]
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Another stop on my whirlwind tour of North Dallas was
Sorcity. My goal was to find out if they were an on-line auction platform, an e-marketplace, a combination of both, or something entirely different … since their site left me asking as many questions as it answered.
Founded in early 1999, it is possibly the oldest [...]
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Monday we defined a basic strategic sourcing process, indicated there were five critical process driven phases that can be greatly enhanced by software solutions, and indicated that we would spend one day discussing each of these technologies this week. Monday we discussed spend management and spend analysis and yesterday we discussed RFX. Today we are [...]
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