First of all, here are the posts to date. The Future of eSourcing - Less is More Alan Buxton The Future of Sourcing: Results-Based Process Specialization Charles Dominick Sourcing Innovation Series […]
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Even though a few bloggers have disappeared into the woodwork, I think it’s time to start wrap up the sourcing innovation 2007 series. First of all, I’d like to thank all of this years contributors to date and summarize the posts in an easy reference table. Then I’m going to recap each one before recapping […]
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In honor of the great work Jason’s been doing on the vendor front this week, I’ve decided to manually index many of the great vendor posts from both of our blogs to allow you to quickly and easily find independent, (mostly) objective, third-party analysis of your favorite vendors. Enjoy! […]
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When I said calling bloggers to action was a bit like herding cats last week, I was wrong. Herding cats is easier. However, as you have noticed, a few more bloggers, and guest bloggers, have roused and more contributions have appeared. Here on sourcing innovation we’ve had guest posts from Alan Buxton of […]
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In this post, we welcome back Eric Strovink of BIQ. At the incessant prodding of Michael Lamoureux, here are some prognostications for Spend Analysis in 2008. The distinction between data-warehouse-based spend analysis tools and Business Intelligence tools will erode, as it is already doing. The only requirements on the […]
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Today I’d like to welcome Alan Buxton of Trading Partners. Anyone remember SAP circa 1998? The way SAP integrated everything was great. Except it was completely unusable. Then along came Ariba’s e-procurement system and it’s whizzy interface. Here was a system that would address SAP’s legendary user-unfriendliness, and drive adoption of improved purchasing […]
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If you haven’t guessed already, calling bloggers to action is a bit like herding cats … except the cats move faster … much faster … and use real claws if you tick them off. And even though they recognize that Web 2.0 time goes by faster than dog years, when it comes to the big […]
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Every now and again I search for Sourcing Innovation on Google, expecting to find this blog and companion website, a few Spend Matters posts, Nine Sigma, a service for innovation seekers looking to hook up with innovative solution providers using open innovation, and maybe the Wikipedia definition for innovation. But I recently ran the search, […]
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Spend Analysis. Decision Optimization. Cost Modeling. Almost since the beginning, these have been the six dirty words of strategic sourcing. Study after study has found that these techniques easily save 8% to 15% for just about any organization that spends more than 500M a year, but yet, on average less than one fifth of companies […]
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Last summer, as part of the Sourcing Innovation sponsored cross-blog series on The Future of Sourcing, Jason Busch theorized over on Spend Matters that securitizing direct materials and capacity was in sourcing’s future and that suppliers would benefit from the model as well as buyers. Under the securitized capacity model, suppliers would be […]
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