e-Sourcing Marketplace
This post does not need to be very long, I just wanted to point out a nice blog by Sourcing Innovation, which describes the difference between eProcurement and eSourcing. Yes, there is a big difference here, but not every one understands this. To this day, I still get people that go into technology [...]
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Purchasing B2B had a good article over the summer called Suppliers Like You Because? Discovering All Your Leverage Points by Terence Lillew that had a list of nine discussion points that should be considered in the development of a cost management strategy for a category.
1. Dollar Volume
Dollar volume is generally the [...]
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There is an economic storm brewing and its called a recession. I believe Zig Ziglar once stated that experts have predicted 36 out of the last 2 recessions. The problem is, that nobody actually knows if we are in a recession until the economy is already pulling out of it. To start, [...]
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I have heard from a few different sources that an eSourcing vendor is close to being acquired by a major consulting firm. Now this would not be the type of acquisition that has already occurred, between Perfect and Cormine, which has virtually no impact on the eSourcing landscape. The potential acquisition I speak [...]
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Ever since October, things have been off the hook here. Of course, we have had our normal growth trajectory over the course of 2007, but Q4 blew out the doors. From a profile standpoint we have added:
15 new software clients
3 additional verbal commitments
3 Fortune 100
6 Fortune 500
2 Fortune 1000
2 mid market
The remaining companies [...]
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I took a trip in the way back machine and reviewed some of my favorite posts of 2007, which I have neatly repackaged in concentrate form here, its a mixture of good strong best practices and interesting topics:
Hello World! Announcing eSourcingWiki!
Two stage reverse auctions
We are very, very special
Issues in eSourcing: Adoption and Penetration
The 7Cs Cheat [...]
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Although I try to refrain from discussing Iasta or the Iasta solutions in this forum (as we have an entire website for that), I was pleased to notice that when reviewing Gartner’s 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008 (as reviewed in CRM Today), we’re already there with respect to at least four of the technologies and [...]
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The Doctor, who runs Sourcing Innovation blog, is never short on heavy hitting analysis. I particularly like when he takes on topics in eSourcing (big surprise). Last week, he had an in depth breakdown of the core functionality that most think of for eSourcing -eRFx/eAuctions. Additionally, you will notice his theme of [...]
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Supply Chain Finance is the optimization of both the availability and cost of capital within a buyer-centric supply chain. The availability and cost of capital is usually optimized through the aggregation, integration, packaging, and utilization of all of the relevant information generated in the supply chain in conjunction with cost analysis, cost management, and various [...]
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I do not usually recommend signing up for reading material, but am making an exception here today. I receive a newsletter from ARC Advisory, available for sign up here, which is packed so full of information that I have trouble looking at it during the work day and have to save it for a [...]
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