Conferences
A Spontaneous Podcast from Procuri Empower
After downing a couple of pints of Sierra Nevada last night, I decided to take part in a spontaneous podcast with fellow blogger Charles Dominick and reporter/editor/author extraordinaire, Doug Smock. If …
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Earlier today, Emptoris announced the release of Emptoris 7, the vendor’s latest platform upgrade. While I won’t get into all of the details about the announcement in this post, I had the chance to walk through some of the enhancements with Emptoris …
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This morning, I’m catching an early flight from Procuri Empower in Atlanta to Emptoris’ International Users Conference in Boston, the event formerly known as Emptoris Empower (is that enough empowerment for you or what)? While I’ve only got half a da…
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Innovation Matters
I’ve only had the opportunity to meet Burton Goldfield twice since he took the helm of Ketera, but in both instances I was struck by two things. The first is his genuine curiosity in exploring and bouncing ideas off those around…
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I’m spending the day at Ketera’s Connect conference. So far, it’s been a series of whirlwind discussions, panels and presentations — most of it pushing the limit on the thinking we frequently hear from vendors in the space. Later in the week, I’ll b…
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Two weeks back, I swung by Columbus, Ohio for the first edition of MFG.com’s Fusion road show that brought together what I reckon was 100 sourcing professionals and suppliers (all machine shops, it appeared) for a half-day session. I spoke at the Col…
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Personally, I think that most trade shows are not worth the time or money (even considering all the trinkets and trash I get to bring home from them for my kids). Sure, there are gems out there, but the amount of pay-to-play systems at most makes the…
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Earlier today, I posted a blog entry highlighting some of internal facts and figures that Ariba disclosed on the mainstage at LIVE. In this post — the last covering Ariba LIVE — I’ll talk about some of the customer adoption metrics that Ariba also brought to light on the main stage. And I’ll apologize in [...]
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In the past couple of months, there have been two major acquisitions in the world of supply chain finance and EIPP (electronic invoice payment presentment). Chase announced its acquisition of Xign and American Express closed on its acquisition of Harbor Payments. Clearly, this is a train that has left the proverbial station, and at [...]
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Earlier today, Ariba announced the publication of a survey conducted in conjunction with CFO Magazine that investigates finance’s view of procurement. Most of the results are not necessarily surprising given the findings that many of the goals of CFOs, controllers and the like are aligned with those of procurement executives. For example, spending on production [...]
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