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All social media networks not equal in their support to procurement
Listening to suppliers can be the difference between success and failure
CIPS Africa launched to support region's members
Supplier relationship programs – Procurement’s “Long Tail”
"E" Does Not Change The Fundamental Nature Of Anything
09-14-2012 - Using social media in a professional context
Technology Changes the Game for Procurement
New Research on Why CEOs Should Use Social Media
Using social media in a professional context – an idiot’s guide
New! Procurement Systems Integration Within the Enterprise: Exploring Integration In The Cloud
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Social media - the new weapon to combat late payment
Explore purchasinginsight.com (Feb 15 2013)
Everyone knows that times are tough and times are toughest for small businesses. They’re faced with obstacles that can seem insurmountable – paperwork, regulation working capital costs. But there’s one obstacle above all others that can strike fear into the every small business – the late payer. They are a scourge. Over years, an obsession with the optimisation of DPO (that’s accountant-speak for funding your business at the expense of your smaller, weaker suppliers) has become a central financial strategy for many large organisations.
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Skype in the workspace caters to small business
Explore Technology News and Analysis (Nov 9 2012)
Many people were aghast when Microsoft forked over a hefty $8.5 billion in May of 2011 to purchase Skype. The software giant took awhile to get going with its new toy, but now we are starting to see the results. Microsoft announced a brand new platform set to improve communications for small business. Skype in the workspace connects these companies to customers, partners and suppliers all around the world. The best part may be the price -- "It's a free-to-use online platform for small businesses and entrepreneurs" states Skype's Ural Cebeci. So far, so good. Microsoft provides experts ...
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Next week's annual procurement networking event attracts 600 attendees
Explore SmartProcurement.co.za (Nov 7 2012)
Smart Procurement World 2012 has attracted more than double the participation it enjoyed last year. Smart Procurement can this week confirm that more than 600 procurement and supply chain professionals will gather en mass at Gallagher Convention Centre on 13 November to attend the multinational procurement networking event.
(Read Full Article)“They’re coming because they want to be part of an event that challenges the leading trends in procurement and supply chain in Africa,” Bernie van Niekerk, Commerce Edge CEO, tells SmartProcurement.
Mentions: Africa South Africa Transnet
09-14-2012 - Using social media in a professional context
Explore archive.aweber.com (Sep 14 2012)
Calling it an idiot's guide is fairly safe. I'm unlikely to offend anyone. The fact that you're reading this confirms you're not an idiot. There has been some pretty high profile research into the power and effectiveness of social media. McKinsey estimate that it's worth $1.3 trillion in terms of the extra value that the global economy can extract through it's use. And we do see it used effectively.
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The Exploding Business of Bartering
Explore HBR Blog Network (Sep 11 2012)
Companies are bartering everything from cars to jet fuel to legal services.The International Reciprocal Trade Association reports that in 2011 over 400,000 companies worldwide used bartering to earn an estimated $12 billion on unwanted or underused assets. Our Global Trends research, along with discussions with senior executives around the world, show that in response to tighter credit and budgets companies are exploring new ways to create and capture value.
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Using social media in a professional context – an idiot’s guide
Explore purchasinginsight.com (Sep 4 2012)
How do individual professionals in procurement or finance use social media in a professional context?
Whether you know it or not, you are already using social media effectively. Blogs such as Purchasing Insight, Spend Matters, Sourcing Innovation, Accounts Payable News etc, etc, represent an important social medium through which experts can provide insights, commentary and stimulate valuable debate and discussion. Not everyone gets it of course and for those who don’t, as well as for those who only half get it, knowing where to start and what to do is a challenge.
Calling it an idiot’s guide is ...
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Technology Changes the Game for Procurement
Explore Accounts Payable News (Aug 29 2012)
Digital communities and the technology underlying them have changed the world. As consumers, we are more connected and enabled to shop, share information, and make better decisions than ever before. And these technologies are having a similar impact on procurement.
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Mentions: Ariba Asia Tim Minahan
New Research on Why CEOs Should Use Social Media
Explore HBR Blog Network (Jul 26 2012)
For CEOs who are trying to decide whether participating in social media is worth their time, there's new research that could help tip the balance. The new report from CEO.com and business intelligence firm DOMO notes that social media is more pervasive than ever among consumers: 50% of the population currently uses Facebook, and more than 37% use Twitter. Yet among Fortune 500 CEOs, the report says, only 7.6% are present on Facebook........
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Social media and procurement – what's wrong with sourcing in public?
Explore procurement-iu.com (Jul 25 2012)
Purchasing professionals are notoriously slow on the up-take on social media. Perhaps understandably for a function that is a risk advice back-office. Buyers do not require the publicity that Twitter brings, and conducting confidential commercial discussions in the public arena is considered inappropriate at best.
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Mentions: Procurement Intelligence Unit
New! Procurement Systems Integration Within the Enterprise: Exploring Integration In The Cloud
Explore Spend Matters (Jul 5 2012)
P2P systems integration is one of the top enablers (and requirements) for driving lasting eProcurement impact and change. Yet precious little research focus has been devoted to it in the past, until now, with our latest Spend Matters Perspective: Pro...
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"E" Does Not Change The Fundamental Nature Of Anything
Explore Sourcing Innovation (Jul 4 2012)
Purchasing Insight just ran an awesome article by Ian Burdon who talked about the e-wheels on my wagon. Attempting to carefully explain why the e-Procurement debate is at least ten years behind the curve (and that if you're not doing proper e-Procurement by now, you probably just crawled out of a cave somewhere ... or at least that's the doctor's interpretation), he makes a great point that has been often missed in the internet age that must be repeated: ...
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SAP's CIO: You're Putting Your Executive Career at Risk if You're Not Social
Explore forbes.com (Jun 13 2012)
Picture yourself as an Executive in 2017, struggling to make sense of how many of your peers failed to become social. Many of them pushed aside by their more savvy underlings who built up both internal and external social networks. Their large networks wield tremendous power, collective intelligence and the ability to influence both employees and customers. Many of the executives that didnât adapt were caught in a type of âvocational innovatorâs dilemmaâ; where they stubbornly refused to
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Manufacturers turning to innovation and collaboration for survival
Explore Engineering News (Jun 4 2012)
A new survey from global advisory firm KPMG has suggested that the continuing sluggish recovery in the global economy was driving manufacturers to seek new approaches to innovation and collaboration across the value chain.The ‘2012 Global Manufacturing Outlook: Fostering Growth through Innovation’ stated that globally, manufacturers were looking to improve their processes and existing products over the next 12 to 24 months through increased ‘process innovation’ and ‘incremental innovation’.
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Deutsche Telekom launches procurement platform
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (May 31 2012)
Telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom has announced the launch of a new machine-to-machine (M2M) marketplace to ’bring together global supply and demand’. The new website enables manufacturers and dealers from around the world to sell their machine-to-machine communication hardware, software and applications.
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Mobile Apps & iOS - Taking Procurement to the Floor
Explore Spend Matters (May 25 2012)
Cloud, mobile apps, iOS, social media... leave me alone! What in the world does this have to do with procurement and sourcing, you ask? Good question, and as a former skeptic let me share some thoughts. First, let's look at iOS – this is the operating system driving iPad, iPhone, iPod and other Apple products..
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The social media evolution – where to from here?
Business-to-business (B2B) companies are finally showing signs of spending more of their marketing budget on social media, finding more varied channels to connect with customers, suppliers and their supporters. Although they have been slow to allocate budget towards on-line social media they are being caught up in the wave. Social media isn’t ...
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Social Media and the Supply Chain
Explore mypurchasingcenter.com (Apr 19 2012)
It appears that we are missing an opportunity to engage with our community on a deeper level. This is an exciting time not just for marketing but for supply chain as we navigate this new world of building relationships through social media. How are you mak…
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Social Media Guidelines: How IBM Does It
Explore 15inno by Stefan Lindegaard (Apr 18 2012)
As you begin using social media for your innovation efforts, it’s important to have in place clear guidelines such as the ones below developed by IBM (called social computing guidelines). This is important in order to guide to guide your employees through the often treacherous waters of what they can and cannot do as they engage with social media.
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CIPS Africa launched to support region's members
Explore supplymanagement.com (Apr 11 2012)
CIPS is launching a regional office to bring together its operations in east, west and southern africa. Called CIPS Africa, the move announced today will see the CIPS office based in Pretoria manage the process of bringing together the institute’s 16,000 members across sub-Saharan Africa.The new office will bring together operations in east, west and southern Africa in a move encompassing 16,000 members.
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Mentions: Africa South Africa Balfour Beatty
What Matters In Social Business?
Explore dachisgroup.com (Mar 29 2012)
There’s no doubt that social business has arrived. In three short years, we’ve adopted this umbrella concept to encompass function-specific concepts like word of mouth marketing, consumer advocacy, and Enterprise 2.0. But what exactly is social business? As a definition, a social business harnesses fundamental tendencies in human behavior
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Supply chain interdependency creates new risks
Explore Procurement Leaders Network (Mar 29 2012)
Increasing levels of interdependency across complex global supply chains are creating significant new business risks, a new report has claimed.
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Sharing information key to successful supply chain collaboration
Explore supplymanagement.com (Mar 27 2012)
Buyers and suppliers are on the same page when it comes to what they want from their partners.
Collaborative Execution: Speed, innovation and profitability, published this week by SCM World, found that around half of buyers (49.1 per cent) see the sharing of information, such as supply capacity and delivery lead times, as most important to collaboration. The picture is similar from the supplier side with 40.8 per cent wanting buyers to keep them up to date with forecasts, future plans and promotions.
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Mentions: Australia
Lund: 'Nothing Beats Facebook' - Businessweek
Explore Businessweek (Mar 19 2012)
Social media entrepreneur Morten Lund on spotting the next trends in digital media
"Tradeshift is changing the landscape for business software", Lund
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Social media policy needed to avoid risk
Explore supplymanagement.com (Mar 15 2012)
"You can't stop employees using social media, you can only guide them in how to use it appropriately and explain to them the consequences if they fail to do so" Nick Thomas, a partner at law firm McGrigors.
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