Procurement Insights

AUGUST 22, 2024

I felt the same way I do now when I gave a radio interview after selling my company for $12 million in January 2001. Remember, this is January 2001, and this is the CFO. On February 15th, 2001, Reuters reported, “Nortel cuts 2001 earnings and sales forecast in half, blaming severe erosion in U.S.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A Little Background When Kelly Barner recently contacted me suggesting I connect with Rod Sherkin, I had to admit that although his company, ProPurchaser, has existed since 2001, I had never really heard of them. What may surprise you is one of the last things I consider is the technology platform.

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Supply Chain Trend

MAY 5, 2023

Imagine a planner with a more interesting and engaging job and career, supported by a machine that frees up 40% of their time to work on interesting stuff, rather than tinkering for 50% of their time with data and being on the treadmill of planning-disruptions-replan-replan-replan and make reports and IBP decks.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

3) SuperEfficient Company : Michael Hammer (2001) explained that, the true challenge was to streamline the process you share with other companies. In this article, he explained how real companies incorporated the reengineering concept to improve integration.

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Procurement Tactics

AUGUST 29, 2022

Lousin began her career in finance in 2001, on the high-pressure trading floors of investment banks. The book, Breakthrough International Negotiation that he co-authored with Susan Rosegrant won the CPR Institute’s Prize for the best book in the field of negotiation in 2001. . Marijn Overvest.

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Spend Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

Categories: Accounts Payable , P2P , Payments , Procurement Systems & Architecture , Spend Management , Technology Tags: PRO Medius began life in 2001 in Sweden as an AP automation solution; in 2006 it opened offices in Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands; in 2008 in Poland.

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ivalua

MARCH 22, 2023

First opened in 1967 on Nashville’s Music Row, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum launched its current downtown location in 2001. Our conference sessions will be held at the “one-and-only” Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum , located in downtown Nashville.

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Strategic Sourceror

JULY 7, 2022

WebVan was a California tech startup that promised at-home grocery delivery services for a relatively low price, eventually going bankrupt in 2001 as the bubble began popping. Let's take a step back for a moment to days of the 1990's-2000's tech boom and consider a company so far ahead of its time that it was doomed to fail.

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Procurement Insights

JULY 25, 2024

2001 Zycus India (U.S.) To access my article archives of any of these providers, type their name in the search box. Each has a unique journey. That being said, how do you measure or quantify success?

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

3) SuperEfficient Company : Michael Hammer (2001) explained that, the true challenge was to streamline the process you share with other companies. In this article, he explained how real companies incorporated the reengineering concept to improve integration.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

System Complexity The interconnectivity of elements within a system as well as between a system and its environment (Chan, 2001). Chan, Serena, Complex Adaptive Systems (2001). In most situations, the longer the planning horizon, the higher the business impact. This article was first published in Foresight issue 48. References.

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2019

Tiger Global Management, LLC was founded in 2001 and is based in New York with affiliate offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangalore and Melbourne. Such investments have included Spotify, Juul, Harry’s, Warby Parker, Peloton, JD.com, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yandex, Mail.ru Group, Despegar and Ola. About ARDIAN.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

MAY 24, 2024

CCIL) is a central counterparty (CCP) that was set up in April 2001 to provide clearing and settlement for transactions in government securities, foreign exchange and money markets in the country. This will help reduce errors and miscommunications, enabling transactions to be executed correctly.

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The Good Spending

MAY 13, 2024

NHS IT System (2001-2011) The national program for IT in the health service is the largest civilian computer project in the world. It was spawned in late 2001 and early 2002. Can we make appropriate conclusions to prevent that from happening again? The first step is to deepen our study of such cases beyond populistic cliches.

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Procurement Insights

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By selling my software company for $12 million in 2001, I have even been a part of the evolutionary process. .” Eating The Elephant – Figuratively Having been in the high-tech world for over 40 years – and almost as long in procurement- I have witnessed some pretty impressive technological breakthroughs first-hand.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2023

” Dale Neef’s 2001 book E-procurement: From Strategy to Implementation talked about the EDI barrier, and the emergence of XML as a better way to engage more second and third-tier suppliers immediately comes to mind. .” – Christian Lanng (LinkedIn Post) Nov.

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Positive Purchasing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Since February 2001, more than 10,000 procurement professionals have attended this unique platform for learning and sharing knowledge about the myriad of developments that have transformed purchasing and supply chain processes in the 21st Century.

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 25, 2013

According to Lummas et al 2001 , the word "Logistics" in English appeared in the article as early as in 1898. The purpose of this article is to shed the new light on this topic, who coined the terms, the true meaning of the terms and its relationship with other disciplines. 1) Current State.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

We dug that company out of terrible financial difficulty after the “internet bubble” burst in 2001. In reality, a few abrupt moves and getting laid off in 2001 by Dell drove a sharp left-hand turn in my career in 2002 that evolved to where I am today. My tenure at AMD was amazing.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Past Positions: Director, VP of ProcurementDirector, VP of Procurement – Pillsbury CPO, VP of ProcurementCPO, VP of Procurement – Ball Packaging Owner – Propurchaser.com Inc (Feb 2001 – Present 23 yrs 11 mos) 30

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry. The University of Chicago Press. Hester, R., E., & Harrison, R., Agricultural Chemicals and the Environment. RSC Publishing. Hoyle, W., & Lancaster, M. Clean Technology for the Manufacture of Specialty Chemicals. RSC Publishing. Smiley, R.,

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Procurement Insights

MAY 31, 2024

As a side note, I sold my self-learning algorithm, a nascent AI company, for $12 million in 2001. Over the years, it has been interesting to see the company’s evolution from one of the early stars of the dot-com era. Sometimes, I regret getting out so early—sometimes, not.

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Procurement Insights

MAY 14, 2024

Parts 1 and 2 ) In 2001, the first full year in which eVA had been in place, less than 1% of the total “identified” spend was processed through the program. Remember one other important point—employees are internal stakeholders. What do the numbers say about external stakeholder retention, e.g., suppliers? Yes, Virginia!

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 9, 2024

In 2001 the name was simplified to Gartner. Well, in December 2001, The Bain/Oracle E-Business Impact Project was released in which Bain & Company, Inc. Source: Wikipedia Step right up ladies and gentleman as I dazzle you with the amazing wonder tool! ” I wonder if Oracle has ever been part of that equation?

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

2001: Responding to advancements in computing power, the DES was replaced by the more robust Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption algorithm. Similar to the DES, the AES is also a symmetric cryptosystem, however, it uses a much longer encryption key that cannot be cracked by modern hardware.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Jayesh has been in the marketing field since 2001 and with Fortress Mobile since 2020. He is also the author of “Rogue’s Guide to Acquisition: Principles from the Final Frontier” listed on Bill Gates Recommended Summer Reading of 2012. Article originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on September 16, 2021.

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Procurement Insights

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Industry studies for 2001-2005 indicate that 75-85% of all programs fail to achieve the promised results. But rather than focusing on new and emerging technologies, today’s procurement professionals seek insights into the actual processes that drive their enterprises.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 28, 2024

Getting It Right Or Being Right This past year, in particular, has been one of the most eye-opening of my 40-plus years in the industry regarding what is behind the curtain of too many solution provider offerings – including the dotcom collapse in 2001.

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 17, 2024

Before I sold my company in 2001, an analyst firm called Meta, eventually purchased by Gartner , approached me because of our tech and the successful results from our first big implementation. During the meeting with my executive team, they said that we were definitely on the leading edge, and they wanted to “cover” us.

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Procurement Insights

JUNE 1, 2024

Having built up and sold my software company in 2001, I understood the need for economy and how the big analyst firms charged a staggering amount to get coverage and exposure in the industry. A Great Journey Not long after I launched this blog in May 2007, Dave Stephens contacted me about sponsoring Procurement Insights.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

” In 2001 Doug Laney articulated the concepts of volume, velocity and variety in describing Big Data. I believe this to be critical to the understanding of Big Data because it is not just about the amount of data.

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Procurement Insights

AUGUST 30, 2023

Process Understanding and Refinement Drives Success Between 2001 and 2005 75 to 85% of all e-procurement initiatives failed to achieve the promised results in terms of savings.

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The Procuretech Podcast

JULY 12, 2022

In 2001 they were offered the Scottish government's P2P service, which they're still running. In 2001 they were offered the Scottish government's P2P service, which they're still running. They developed a piece of software with MIT in Boston to run the ordering and procurement process for the business.

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IBM Supply Chain Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

We are at an inflection point, where we have witnessed 100,000-fold reduction in cost since the human genome was first sequenced in 2001. Today, the rate of data volume increase is similar to the rate of decrease in sequencing cost.

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Solvoyo

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Until recently, Agile, started by Agile Manifesto drafted by a group of technologists back in 2001 was a methodology used in software development. Let’s start with Organizational Agility and the role of Digital Transformation in making this happen. What does Organizational Agility mean?

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Procurement Insights

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Based on the results for the end clients, I made a mistake that I regret to this day—I sold my company and corresponding patent in 2001 for $12 million. The heart of the program was my use of advanced self-learning algorithms within a nascent AI platform.

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The Good Spending

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Agile Manifesto was created in 2001, but Agile-like ideas, concepts, and even realizations have been floating around since the 1940s (or maybe earlier): 1991 - James Martin published the book "Rapid Application Development." 1948-1975 - Toyota Production System development (just-in-time production).

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