Entries Categorized as 'Cost Cutting'
by Debbie Wilson | January 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
Critical Capabilities for Best of Breed E-Procurement Vendors Critical Capabilities for ERP-Based E-Procurement Solutions This pair of documents (subscription required) rates e-procurement vendors against 11 major capabilities including fixed asset acquisition, internal store support; basic purchasing functionality; invoice matching; catalog support; specialized casual user interface; supplier collaboration; public-sector functionality; extended configurability; heterogeneous integration; and multisite [...]
Category: Cost Cutting E-Procurement Research Library (Subscription/Purchase Required) Tags:
by Debbie Wilson | November 6, 2009 | Comments Off
This new research (subscription required) answers the most common e-procurement-related questions that end users are asking Gartner. Sample questions include how to maximize the ROI for e-procurement, how to drive user adoption, what to expect if you are integrating a best-of-breed solution to an ERP(s) and whether, for public sector, funding the initiative through supplier [...]
Category: Cost Cutting E-Procurement Research Library (Subscription/Purchase Required) Transaction Enablement Usability Tags:
by Debbie Wilson | November 3, 2009 | 2 Comments
I had an interesting client call yesterday that reminds me that the flexibility of a SaaS subscription can work both in favor of the SaaS vendor (hey, you don’t have to have a capital budget for us . . . just a bit of operating funds!) and against them. (Hmmm [says the buying organization] we [...]
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by Debbie Wilson | September 22, 2009 | 8 Comments
I’ve been reading the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ever since my undergraduate days – in the ‘80s, when the newspaper was assigned as reading for my Economics 101 class. Since then, it’s been a staple of my life and a way to keep in touch with the world while taking a break from the luminescent blue screens of [...]
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by Debbie Wilson | August 25, 2009 | 3 Comments
My colleague and friend Andrew White was kind enough this morning to send me a link to a very interesting article in today’s Financial Times: When Procurement is a Matter of Life and Death. I think it’s a good article from the standpoint of bringing up that procurement need not be a backwater for “little [...]
Category: Cost Cutting Procurement Staffing Tags:
by Debbie Wilson | July 22, 2009 | 2 Comments
One of my favorite things to do is to bury myself in a spreadsheet for some good, old-fashioned data analysis. This long-term interest in numbers is evidenced by my undergraduate degree in economics, with a special interest in statistics. So yesterday was a very happy day as I spent much of it digging through my [...]
Category: Contract Management Cost Cutting E-Procurement Procurement Market Research Strategic Sourcing Tags:
by Debbie Wilson | July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment
I’ve had a string of inquiries over the past few weeks from smaller organizations that are keen to invest in procurement technologies – to improve their sourcing processes, to support requisitioning, and to connect online with suppliers. For me, these calls are often a source of deep frustration. (Remember I am and forever will be [...]
Category: Cost Cutting Procurement Market Research The Business of Software Tags:
by Debbie Wilson | June 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
I was just reading an interesting blog on PurchasingNet.com – see http://www.purchasingnet.com/p2padvisorblog/?p=168 . I used to think that voluntary use of an e-procurement system was an OK idea – especially in companies where the culture has been to “empower” requisitioners to buy what they want when they want it and from where they want it, [...]
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by Debbie Wilson | June 24, 2009 | 3 Comments
I am really pleased to be able to announce the availability of the first ever Gartner rating of the e-procurement market. Critical Capabilities for Best of Breed E-Procurement Vendors assesses the capabilities and prospects of fourteen vendors including Ariba, Basware, Birchstreet Systems, Coupa, Elcom, ePlus, Ketera, Perfect Commerce, Periscope, PurchasingNet, Proactis, Puridiom, SciQuest, and Verian. [...]
Category: Cost Cutting E-Procurement Tags:
by Debbie Wilson | April 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week, I commented on Professor Rob Handfield’s overly supplier-centric recommendations on helping distressed suppliers through a financial crisis. No one could accuse Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, a global brewing giant, of being too considerate of its suppliers. According to”AB InBev Suppliers Feel Squeeze,” from the April 17th US edition of the Wall Street Journal, this [...]
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