E-Sourcing: What’s Changed in the Past Five Years (Part 2)

Thomas Kase - May 23, 2013 3:08 PM | Categories: Commentary

In the first installment in this series, we talked a lot about the changing e-sourcing landscape based on observations from a deep dive sourcing analysis we’re currently working on. Today we’ll share some of the remaining “gotchas” to bring our subscribers up to speed on what’s changed in the past five years. But first, here’s a summary of our initial points: Non-western expertise and sourcing suites gain stature The rise of truly integrated end-to-end solutions is finally here (in certain cases) Optimization (i.e., flexible and alternative bidding submissions, application of buyer constraints, scenario analysis) has finally gotten easy to use Larger [...]

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P2P Channel Strategy Spaghetti: Pasta that Will Keep Your Company Lean!

Guest Post - May 23, 2013 1:26 PM | Categories: Commentary

Spend Matters welcomes a guest post from Michael Eckstut and Len Prokopets of Archstone Consulting. A commonly held view by most top managers today is that simplifying processes and taking a “lean” approach to all business operations is the golden path to business success. We have seen over and over again companies successfully re-engineering their business processes to take out complexity and become more effective and efficient, better able to compete in the marketplace by meeting customer service and quality goals while driving down costs. However, there are times when simplifying processes can go too far and little “messiness” is [...]

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Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25, Big Gas Savings, Pet Spending

Sheena Moore - May 23, 2013 11:36 AM

US retailers are reluctant to join in on international plans to improve safety and working condition...

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BravoSolution’s Customer Event: Procurement Health and the Dangers of WebMD!

Jason Busch - May 23, 2013 10:43 AM

Bravo’s Mickey North Rizza facilitated a great discussion yesterday with the metaphor of “health...

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BravoSolution’s Customer Event – Learning To Drive Fast

Jason Busch - May 23, 2013 9:01 AM

When people purchase anything but a boring econobox of a car – or the Prius, which is really just...

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Analyze This! – Supplier Performance Management Based on Real Data

Thomas Kase - May 23, 2013 8:01 AM

To drive change and improvements, it is critical that internal stakeholders and suppliers rally arou...

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BravoSolution’s Customer Event — Touching Down

Jason Busch - May 23, 2013 5:57 AM

I touched down in New Orleans yesterday morning to attend the BravoSolution customer conference. I c...

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25 Procurement Productivity Improvements You Can Make Right Now (Part 1)

Pierre Mitchell - May 22, 2013 2:49 PM

In April 2013, Spend Matters conducted a research study (sponsored by Hubwoo) with ISM (The Institut...

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Sourcing Validation as a Best Practice

Guest Post - May 22, 2013 1:14 PM

Spend Matters welcomes another guest post from Jeff Muscarella of NPI, a spend management consultanc...

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H7N9 Under Control, Apple to Build Factory in Texas, Best Buy Cuts Costs, Google’s Conversational Search

Sydney Lazarus - May 22, 2013 11:23 AM

The H7N9 virus appears to be under control, according to UN experts. The epidemic has led to roughly...

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Transactional Data Interchange: The Large/Small Company Disconnect

Jason Busch - May 22, 2013 10:01 AM

KPMG’s 2013 Global Manufacturing Outlook features a diagram that immediately caught my attention w...

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Supplier Network Fee Modeler: A Q-and-A With the Inventor (Part 2)

Jason Busch - May 22, 2013 8:09 AM

Please click here for the first part of this interview. Spend Matters:  Ariba’s fees look ine...

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Hackett’s P2P Performance Study: The Best Freemium P2P Benchmark in the World

Pierre Mitchell - May 22, 2013 6:04 AM

My alma mater, The Hackett Group, has launched their bi-annual Purchase-to-Pay benchmark study. Unli...

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E-Sourcing: What’s Changed in the Past Five Years?

Jason Busch - May 21, 2013 3:14 PM

This post discusses the capabilities and mentions vendors like MyBiz, Ivalua, Pool4Tool, Zycus, Full...

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Supercharging Procurement’s Buying Leverage

Guest Post - May 21, 2013 1:09 PM

Spend Matters welcomes a guest post from Jim Kiser of GEP. In today’s competitive business environ...

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Apple the “Tax Dodger,” Your Donated Clothes, Global Brand Supply Chain Woes

Sheena Moore - May 21, 2013 11:44 AM

Tim Cook was questioned by a US Senate subcommittee about Apple’s offshore cash, after being accus...

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