I was surprised and pleased to learn Vance will be announced shortly as Aberdeen’s new leader for its Procurment and Supply Management. He strengthens an already strong team there. Spendmatters broke the news here.
Vance and I worked together for years at Oracle. During the .com boom days Vance was ‘CEO’ of Oracle’s Exchange.Oracle.Com business. He […]
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August 8th, 2006 | Posted in Opinion, Procurement Blogs
David Bush, my good friend who helped found the e-Sourcing outfit Iasta, invited me to write a guest post on e-Sourcing Forum. The topic was procurement & innovation, and I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to talk about until I started typing. Right away, my mind struck upon how open source is emerging […]
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July 5th, 2006 | Posted in Opinion, Open Source, Procurement Blogs
If you thought blogging was goofy, think again. SCDigest alerted me to a new corporate blog by Global #1 (or was that Public Enemy #1?). The Wal-Mart blog, named Check-out, “are buyers or merchandisers in a number of product categories (e.g., “gadgets†or “lawn and gardenâ€Â) who went through detailed training in how […]
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May 1st, 2006 | Posted in General, Procurement Blogs, Supply Management Best Practices, checkout blog