A few colleagues of mine were at SIG earlier this month, and they all had (some) good things to say about it. I, of course, wasn’t there as SIG events are typically members only and I’m not a member - as it’s primarily for companies and not bloggers and independent consultants. But I’m always happy […]
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During my last Toronto trip, I had the chance to sit down with Wayne Burgess, Head2Head’s Supply Chain practice lead and discuss Head2Head’s rather unique supply chain recruitment solution. Head2Head was founded in 2000 by two guys in a basement who thought an innovative approach was required in recruitment. Today, they have roughly 30 employees […]
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Continuing in my effort to overview the smaller specialty service firms in the sourcing and procurement space in addition to the product companies with some of the more innovative offerings, even though I wasn’t able to connect with Archstone in their San Francisco office last month, I made a point to track Bob Derocher, partner […]
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Recently I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with one of the partners and co-founders of Denali in their new headquarters, one of the few boutique consultancies specializing in supply chain with over ten years of experience in strategic sourcing. I was impressed with what I heard. Although the Denali V4 (Volume-Velocity-Value-Vehicle) […]
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The services spend space is unique in several ways compared to goods spend. One of the primary differences is the use of a “supplier-funded†approach to pay for the deployment of a spend management solution.
If you’re not familiar with the supplier-funded concept, it entails a service provider short-paying a supplier up to […]
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Over the past year, I’ve blogged a number of guest posts over on eSourcing Forum, including forty posts last summer as part of the weekend series. For new(er) readers to the blog, here is a list of all guest posts over on eSourcing Forum with direct links.
Weekend Series Posts
Purchasing Innovation […]
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Whereas most restaurants believe, like the American School System, that when it comes to calories, the more the merrier, T.G.I. Friday’s, as noted in this Knowledge @ Wharton article, realizes that when it comes to healthy eating it is the right portion of the right food at the right price, not calories, that counts. […]
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Avotus recently released a whitepaper on eSourcing for Communications and Why You Need More than Ariba, Procuri, and SAP’s Frictionless Commerce.
According to the white-paper, sourcing and procuring business-critical products and services such as voice and data communications requires a solution specifically designed for the complexities of that environment. This is because the […]
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Since the blog software trashed my formatting, here are my responses to Emptoris’ Setting the Record Straight.
Response, Part I
(1) They should read the post again.
(a) I said MindFlow was in many ways far superior, that MindFlow had a better sourcing model, and that it contained many elements that should have […]
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My analysis of Emptoris’ optimization capabilities based upon publicly available information have already been posted over on Spend Matters as well as Emptoris’ Response and my follow-up comment, so I’m not going to repeat it here. What I am going to do is attempt to analyze their new Advanced Sourcing Service offering based upon […]
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