Oracle Launches a New Approach to Supplier Management (Part 1)
At ISM this week, Oracle officially launched its new Supplier Lifecycle Management and Supplier Hub solutions. These products, built on Oracle’s Master Data Management suite, officially went GA in December of last year (yet are not able to be referenced at this point). While both solutions appear similar to other supplier information management tools on […]
Spend Matters, Live From ISM on Wednesday: Supply Risk Management Solution Analysis Session (Part 1)
This Wednesday at 9:00 AM PDT at ISM, I’ll be co-presenting with Sherry Gordon, a Spend Matters contributor and president of the Value Chain Group. Our session is titled “Understanding and Choosing Supply Risk Solutions: Software, Content and Analytics.” The two of us spent quite a bit of time analyzing the supply risk solution landscape […]
Friday Rant: It’s Off to ISM We Go — But for How Much Longer?
Along with hundreds of other practitioners headed to ISM this weekend or next week, I’m going to attend (and speak at) an event that has long been considered the single most important annual corporate gathering for North American procurement managers. Like all large events, such shows are always what you make of them. There’s no […]
Friday Rant: The Straight Dope on Procurement and Supply Chain Conferences (Part 1)
I’m often asked my opinion on events and conferences. While I’ve
tackled this subject on Spend Matters a number of times, it
seems that I?m getting more and more questions lately from providers
about what events they should sponsor this year…
