by Debbie Wilson | April 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
Thought of the Week: How Not to Procure Services I had a very interesting call from a supplier earlier this week – they were having a very frustrating experience with a customer and were wondering if this is something they should expect more of from other customers. To make a long story short, and with [...]
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by Debbie Wilson | April 15, 2010 | Comments Off
In the News It was nice to see a recent I-many press release touting the vendors success in general contract management with a “top 5 global pharmaceutical.” In my humble opinion, vendors need to establish a strong leadership position in their own focus market before then can successfully diversity into others – something I-many has [...]
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by Debbie Wilson | April 9, 2010 | Comments Off
The tabulations are complete – ta da – and here’s the 2010 procurement technology heat map: What’s hot – procure-to-pay, strategic sourcing suites and procurement modernization. What’s not is vendor vulnerability (another good sign of the economy improving), stand-alone sourcing applications and procurement master data management. Services procurement (contingent workforce management, statement of work based purchasing) [...]
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by Debbie Wilson | April 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
Happy April Fools Day, and welcome Springtime! Here in northern New England we are happily seeing bluebird- blue skies once again after a long, windy, rainy storm. Thank heavens. There is, as usual, lots of interesting news from this past week. SciQuest, a well-known, North Carolina-based vendor with a catalog e-marketplace, supplier network and SaaS-delivered [...]
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