Strategic Sourcing Europe

Capgemini acquires IBX

Jean-Philippe Massin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:53:36 +0000

The news came out yesterday: Capgemini Group today announced its acquisition of on-demand purchasing solutions provider IBX and with it, the availability of the industry’s first global end-to-end, Procurement-as-a-Service offering. Having collaborated together since summer 2009, Capgemini and IBX decided to join forces in order to drive development of a new global procurement service offering and further expand the addressable market for IBX’s best-in-class technology

Supply Risk in 2009: Top 10 learnings

Jean-Philippe Massin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:15:47 +0000

Ariba lately published a whitepaper about Supply Risk management. Wide topic indeed, which obviously shouldn’t be seen as a one-off action but as a continuous effort over time and a board-level matter. Supply risk emerged strongly – as the current financial market turned unsecure – and shall stay in CPO’s minds as the economy will [...]

Enporion, now a veteran-owned company…

Jean-Philippe Massin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:01:56 +0000

Enporion was initially a vertical eMarketplace, founded by 7 major US Utility companies ( Allegheny Energy Inc., Allete, Ameren Corporation, CMS Energy Corporation, KeySpan Corporation, PPL Corporation and UGI Corporation ) supposed to have enough business traction to make it happen. As we all know now, time for vertical eMarketplace was not yet there and quite early actualy, George Gordon, CEO and Chairman of the company took the right decision to bend the model and turn Enporion as a more general eSupply-Chain enabler (Source to Pay) for all industries, and with a private own technology to mitigate costs and maximize agility.

5 metrics to calculate your Savings performance

Jean-Philippe Massin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:11:20 +0000

How do you calculate your savings performance? This is a recurring question and I found a nice thread on linkedin "Savings performance calculation".

6 best practices to ensure eSourcing adoption

Jean-Philippe Massin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:15:40 +0000

Another good 20 page white-paper from SAP © 2006 describing 6 easy-to-use best practices and a couple of tips to support successful adoption of an eSourcing solution. Not rocket science, just basic change-management key success factors used in any transformation project but applied to eSourcing: Deming PDCA, Simplicity, quick wins and communication...what else?

Reverse Auction Best practices

Jean-Philippe Massin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:18:25 +0000

In 2006 SAP has issued a white paper about reverse auction best practices. You can find it now on its knowledge hub. Here you go. You will learn the essential, i.e. when to use RFx and reverse auctions, how to sell auctions to internal stakeholders, how to get supplier buy-in, how to choose the right auction settings and to run an auction.

5 Best Practices Toward Contract Compliance

Jean-Philippe Massin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:44:11 +0000

Zycus issued in last September 2009 an article titled "5 Best Practices Toward Contract Compliance". In there, You'll learn about what's key when looking after contract compliance: Including clauses sticking the contract to market conditions, defining the right contract metrics, not forgetting auditing the standardized contract management processes you should have put in place

A Gold Nugget: The Scottish Public Procurement Toolkit

Jean-Philippe Massin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:49 +0000

The Scottish Governement has developped a comprehensive Purchasing toolkit and a full suite of Strategic Sourcing templates in order to streamline its Sourcing and Procurement processes. Although devoted to the Public sector Buyers, most of the templates are re-usable by Private-sector Buyers. The whole toolkit can be found on the Scottish Government website. Below is an [...]

CIPSA Professional Resources : Top 20 websites in the world of procurement

Jean-Philippe Massin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:44:32 +0000

Below is the the list of the top 20 Procurement-related websites identified by CIPSA (CIPS Australia - original source-page is here). I'm proud to see that I'm in, nearby Sourcing Innovation blog, Spend Matters, Supply Excellence...