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Iasta releases SmartSource 8.0

Last month we had a major release for our clients, with the long awaited functionality for supplier information management, or whatever terminology kids use these days for vendor data management. As you can read in the press release, our COO was quite…

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Strategy for Success in eSourcing: Sourcing Execution

I originally wrote this post for the Sourcing Innovation series for this month. You can follow the link and see the other efforts, or just take my word for it and know that this was the best guest post.
As any one who has been around e-Sourcing techno…

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Process integration for eSourcing

Supply and Demand Chain Exec has a fantastic article on eSourcing process integration, which is written by Andy Sealock of Pace Harmon. If you can get past the incredibly unfriendly user obstruction for printing and viewing the article on 7 different pages, you will be able to really get a ton of great information. [...]

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Collaboration – More does not always equal less.

This article in supply management is a classic misconception that just by adding together more of the same does not always equal lower unit costs. As highlighted by Michael Lamoureux there are a number of issues that inhibit collaboration like culture, time and timing.
I think the SM article gives us a great opportunity to [...]

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e-Sourcing Project Management Tips from Confucious

The ISM Project Management for Supply Professionals Satellite Seminar Program Handbook, despite being limited mostly to presentation slides and a few article reprints, had a few great slides and a few great tips for supply management project management that are doubly true for e-Sourcing project management. Two slides in particular that I would like [...]

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Outsourcing Gets Tough

According to an article in the Outsourcing Journal back in March titled Suppliers Face a Changed World As First Generation Outsourcing Deals Expire, 43% of annualized outsourced contract value that is up for renewal over the next two years face a medium risk of getting restructured. Traditionally onshored deals will be offshored, mega-deals (that [...]

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Iasta SmartSource 7.0 Released

At long last, Iasta has finally released our newest version of SmartSource. I generally do not discuss happenings in Iasta-land on E-Sourcing Forum but this is significant from my perspective because we have been so excited about unleashing this monster, and, because it changes the e-Sourcing landscape even more with our expanding breadth across [...]

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Weekend Series Wrap Up III: The Innovation Revolution

This is the last full weekend of the summer, and, thus, the last summer weekend series on e-Sourcing Forum. This summer we discussed, in detail, 12 topics in process and technology, supply management, and innovation that we hope you can use to help you design better sourcing methodologies. Today we are going to [...]

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Weekend Series Wrap Up II: Supply Chain Management

This is the last full weekend of the summer, and, thus, the last summer weekend series on e-Sourcing Forum. This summer we discussed, in detail, 12 topics in process and technology, management, and innovation that we hope you can use to help you design better sourcing methodologies. Today we are going to review [...]

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Weekend Series Wrap Up I: Process and Technology

This is the last full weekend of the summer, and, thus, the last summer weekend series on eSourcing Forum. This summer we discussed, in detail, twelve topics in process and technology, supply management, and innovation that we hope you can use to aid you in your design of better sourcing methodologies. Today we [...]

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