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Friday Rant: Treat Contracting as a Business and Sourcing Process, Not Just a Legal One

Friday Rant: Treat Contracting as a Business and Sourcing Process, Not Just a Legal One

By Jason Busch on March 5, 2010

In last Friday’s first rant, I shared some thoughts and anecdotes about the role contracting can play in helping companies more quickly realize identified savings. In this rant, I?ll focus on some of the roles contracting can play in identifying addi…

Posted in Business | Tagged Contract, Contract Management, Friday Rant

Friday Rant: The Receivables Exchange Needs to Market Less Like a Loan Shark

Friday Rant: The Receivables Exchange Needs to Market Less Like a Loan Shark

By Jason Busch on February 26, 2010

I’m a big fan of collaboration between supply chain financing and procurement/accounts payable to reduce supply risk and enable vendors to access working capable at more reasonable rates. I’m even a fan of The Receivables Exchange, one of the pioneer…

Posted in Business | Tagged Financial services, Friday Rant, Loan shark, Receivables Exchange, supply chain, supply chain management | 2 Responses

Friday Rant: Coupa Sam Talks Smack to Ariba Spendman

Friday Rant: Coupa Sam Talks Smack to Ariba Spendman

By Jason Busch on February 19, 2010

This is a rant. I won’t pretend to dig into details of the accuracies, fallacies, and potentially overlooked comparisons in Coupa’s latest napalm drop on Ariba. No, I’ll save the meat of my analysis for a regular post or two next week that takes a more objective look at some of Coupa’s claims in its […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Coupa, Coupa Sam, Friday Rant, Mission Impossible, software as a service, Spend Management, supply chain

Friday Rant: What's Holding Ariba Back? (Part 2)

Friday Rant: What’s Holding Ariba Back? (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on February 12, 2010

In the first part of this column from last Friday’s Rant, I shared a few thoughts on what I thought was holding Ariba back from even larger growth, from the perspective of solution and customer communications. In the second installment of this rant t…

Posted in Business | Tagged Ariba, Freemarkets, Friday Rant, Spend Management, Strategic sourcing

Friday Rant: Doubling Down on Spend Matters (Part 2)

Friday Rant: Doubling Down on Spend Matters (Part 2)

By Jason Busch on December 18, 2009

In a column from last Friday, I provided some background details on the current state of Spend Matters as well as intimating what might be around the corner. To summarize, for those who missed it and don’t want to read the first installment in this s…

Posted in Business | Tagged Friday Rant, innovation, Jason Busch

Friday Rant: Doubling Down on Spend Matters (Part 1)

Friday Rant: Doubling Down on Spend Matters (Part 1)

By Jason Busch on December 11, 2009

There comes a time in the evolution of any idea — or business —
where rapid introspection is preferable to any long, drawn-out
goal-setting or visioning development process. Over the course of 24
hours in early November, I had one of these…

Posted in Business | Tagged analysts, Business Model, Friday Rant, Goal setting, procurement, purchasing, SpendMatters

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