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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SpendMatters unveiled its new sponsor today, the JV Kelly Group, a professional services firm headquartered in New York that specializes in developing and implementing innovative spend management solutions and effective, measurable procurement results that Jason Busch has called a best-kept Spend Management secret.
All I can say is that thanks to their innovative investment […]
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During my most recent Silicon Valley foray, I had a chance to catch up with Provade again and talk about how they seamlessly enable services procurement for companies with and without a PeopleSoft stack. If you remember, one of the three points I covered in my last post was how they built their solution […]
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When I was in Chicago, I had the chance to sit down with Bart Richards, a Principle of The Claro Group, and talk about their consulting practice and their sourcing practice in particular. Although the Claro group is relatively new, being in existence for less than two years, it’s team, made up of a […]
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Last week at Aptium Global’s private 10 Ways to Significantly Improve EBITDA and Reduce Operational Risk in Your Portfolio Companies, Lisa Reisman, Mark Pruitt, and Ara Surenian presented ten real-world examples of cost reduction and EBITDA improvement in small and middle market operations that proved that Lean can be used to save significant amounts of […]
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Your supply chain will be disrupted. Bet on it. You’ll win. The only two things more absolute in this world are death and taxes. I’ve told you that there is Real Risk in your supply chain. I’ve reviewed the basics of Managing Business Risk. I’ve even went so far […]
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In yesterday’s post, Strategic Service Management, I talked about the importance of making the customer efficient while maintaining a profit - something you are likely to only achieve in today’s highly competitive marketplace with strategic service management - a proactive approach to service management that balances service strategy, resources, commitments, and pricing that supports the […]
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As I’ve been mapping out the supply chain space, one of the oft-overlooked areas that I keep stumbling on is service management - and by that I am referring to customer service management, and not just outsourced services management. After all, I do preach Total Value Management (TVM), and unlike Total Cost of Ownership […]
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