The Twelve Days of X-Mas 2008 On the twelfth day of X-Mas my blogger gave to me a pound of cunning, another vendor hyping, blog posts worth keeping, l’il hampsters dancing, thoughts for a shilling, strategies for winning, tactics for saving, five golden rings, four little words, tri-focal lens, […]
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In the spirit of April Fools, I’m going to play a dirty trick on all of the web sites that play a dirty trick on you, by exposing the dirty little secrets they don’t want you to know about. (Why? Because I’m sick and tired of people believing the hype that only “hits” […]
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On the first day of X-Emplification my blogger gave to me Notes on Some Bartering ToolsOn the second day of X-Emplification my blogger gave to me Some Spending Rules and Notes on Some Bartering ToolsOn the third day of X-Emplification my blogger gave to me Optimized Buys Some Spending Rules and Notes on Some Bartering […]
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Sooner or later you have to pay the piper, and that’s why I saved this topic for last. Although e-Payment falls under the e-Procurement umbrella, that we covered back on Day 5, most e-Procurement solutions don’t handle e-Payments, and most e-Payment solutions are actually stand alone solutions. Thus, it’s important that this topic […]
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On Day 2 we talked about strategic sourcing decision optimization, the technology you need to make the right buy given the myriad of constraints you have to adhere to and the large number of costs and bids you need to take into account. Today we’re going to talk about supply chain optimization - the […]
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Trade Data Management is a broad topic, and means different things to different people. As far as I’m concerned, Trade Data Management is the process of tracking all of the data that you need to manage the global trade cycle, as defined in the Global Trade Primer on the e-Sourcing Wiki. Global Trade […]
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Tactical procurement doesn’t cut it anymore. It doesn’t even come close. You need to source strategically, and if you’re not sure how to do that, you need to get help. There’s nothing wrong with asking for help from someone better than you (as long as you make the effort to learn from […]
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Market Intelligence is defined as information relevant to a company’s markets, gathered and analyzed specifically for the purpose of accurate and confident decision making in determining market opportunity, market penetration strategy, and new market development metrics on Wikipedia. For our purposes, it is essentially the information you need to make the right buy from […]
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Little GPO, you’re really lookin’ fine Three staplers and a printer only $389! “GPO” by Dot and the ‘Riba BrothersIf this is all you’re looking for in a GPO, then you’re looking for the wrong thing. It’s not selection or price, it’s service. Furthermore, the fact of the […]
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A number of vendors have a number of representatives whose sole job is to pound on your door and tell you about all the advantages of a supplier network - advantages that, as a few of you have unfortunately realized, never materialize unless you have the right network with the right suppliers participating. And […]
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