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Cloud computing meets supply chain transparency and risk

Cloud computing meets supply chain transparency and risk

By Tom Raftery on April 25, 2014

Supply chains? Yawn, right? While supply chains may seem boring, they are of vital importance to organisations, and their proper management can make, or break companies. Some recent examples of where poorly managed supply chains caused at best, serious reputational damage for companies include the Apple Computers child labour and workers suicide debacle; the Tesco […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, Infor, supply chain, supply chain risk, supply chain transparency, transparency

Vertical Solutions Extends Customer Experience And Field Service Footprint With Three Partnerships

Vertical Solutions Extends Customer Experience And Field Service Footprint With Three Partnerships

By R "Ray" Wang on April 7, 2014

Vertical Solutions Partnerships Showcase Why Complex Field Service Is A Critical Glue Between ERP and CRM In Improving Customer Experience   Announced March 4th, 2014 at the Microsoft Convergence event, Vertical Solutions, made three significant partnerships with Blue Horseshoe Solutions, Cincom, and Vidcie.  The Cincinatti, Ohio based customer experience software vendor provides cloud contact center […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 2014, Apps Strategy, Business Transformation, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Service Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, Constellation Research, CRM, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer relationship management, customer relationship management (CRM), customer service, Customer Support, CXO, CXP, Digital Disruption, Digital Strategy, DigitalBiz, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Field service, microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics Convergence, MIcrosoft Dynamics CRM, MIcrosoft Dynamics ERP, Microsoft integration, News Analysis, Next Gen Customer, Next Gen Customer Experience, Next Gen CXP, NextGen, NextGenCXP, partnerships, Post sales service, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, service, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, supply chain, suppy chain management, vendor strategy, Vertical Solutions, Video | 1 Response

2014 Predictions: The Return (and Supply Chain Evolution) of the Private B2B Marketplace

2014 Predictions: The Return (and Supply Chain Evolution) of the Private B2B Marketplace

By Jason Busch on January 15, 2014

Back in the early 2000s, independent electronic B2B public marketplaces gave birth to the software to run them, which then gave birth to the brick and mortar companies that wanted to control their own destinies to use such software to run industry consortia marketplaces. But, they found the technology lacking in deep support for much […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged 2014 Predictions, supply chain

Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spend management

Sourcing reinvented: cloud supply chain and spend management

By Phil Wainewright on May 13, 2013

If the future is a networked world, then we may well find that the future belongs to sourcing vendors. No other category of vendors has had its landscape transformed so fundamentally by the advent of the Web, to the extent that leading vendors such as Concur and Ariba took early decisions to wholly rearchitect their […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Ariba, Cloud Computing, EnSW2013, eurocloud, sap, supply chain

HPthe other transformation

HPthe other transformation

By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 9, 2013

With all the negative news swirling around HP, it is easy to lose focus on the complex operations that continue to drive the $120 billion behemoth. Every global supply chain was rocked by the Japanese tsunami and the Iceland volcano explosion impact on European air travel. HP’s mammoth supply chain which produces 2 printers a […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Cloud Computing, DocuSign, hp, salesforce.com, supply chain | 3 Responses

The SAP Business Suite and HANA

The SAP Business Suite and HANA

By Jason Busch on January 25, 2013

Most folks using procurement technology would rather not get into the underlying bits and bytes of technology architecture, let alone the nuances of database technology. For the most part this makes sense, though we’d argue that for systems integration, a lot of incremental business value in the P2P and services procurement areas can be derived […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Ariba, HANA, sap, SAP Business Suite, SAP Hana, SuccessFactors, supply chain | 1 Response

Cost Management Failures: 10 Reasons SMBs Stink at Procurement

Cost Management Failures: 10 Reasons SMBs Stink at Procurement

By Jason Busch on January 16, 2013

Last week, we began a blog series exploring the state of procurement in the small and middle market sectors. See 2013: The Year of Source-To-Pay Adoption for SMB Procurement and 3 Essential Procurement Services For Small and Middle Market Businesses. As we continue our analysis of SMB procurement practices, it makes sense to do a […]

Posted in Business | Tagged procurement, small business, smb, sme, supply chain

Some Secrets of the Industry Analyst Briefing

Some Secrets of the Industry Analyst Briefing

By Jason Busch on January 14, 2013

Over on Spend Matters PRO, my colleague Peter Smith recently penned a must-read column for software providers, BPOs and consultants in the procurement and supply chain ecosystem: Providers Take Note: A Look Inside the Brain of a CPO (subscription content – try before you buy here). His post got me thinking about writing a similar […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Consultant, Industry analyst, supply chain

KPMG to Acquire BrainNet -- Initial Reporting, Analysis and Recommendations

KPMG to Acquire BrainNet — Initial Reporting, Analysis and Recommendations

By Jason Busch on June 18, 2012

On Friday, KPMG announced it was acquiring European-based procurement and supply chain consultancy, BrainNet. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, Spend Matters estimates the value of the transaction at between $50-100MM. This range is based on estimated BrainNet revenue slightly above $50MM — which may have been even higher — and relative 1-2X […]

Posted in Business | Tagged BearingPoint, BrainNet, KPMG, supply chain | 1 Response

The End of Global Sourcing as We Know It? The MIT/Sloan View (Part 2)

The End of Global Sourcing as We Know It? The MIT/Sloan View (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on May 29, 2012

Please click here for the first post in this series. In an article in MIT Sloan Management Review, supply chain academics and experts David Simchi-Levi, James Paul Peruvankal, Narendra Mulani and Bill Read offer up a number of hypotheses examining how global sourcing is changing. On Spend Matters, we have explored the authors’ second argument […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Asia, Global sourcing, Mexico, MIT Sloan Management Review, supply chain

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