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- About Me:
- Procurement professional
- My Interest in Competitive Intelligence is:
- I'm passionate about applying business intelligence and analysis methods in the strategic sourcing process. The CI / BI - disciplines have many relevant applications for Procurement, e.g. in the selection of financially and commercially viable suppliers and in the post-award monitoring of suppliers.
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Intelligence in Procurement?
Procurement professionals are expected to select suppliers that provide best value-for-money for the company they work for. Implementing some solid business intelligence methods in the supplier selection process is one way of securing best value-for-money and reducing the risk of supplier failure.
Does any of you members on this Forum have experience from using BI in Procurement?
I'm not sure whether there are full-time Procurement professionals on this forum besides me, but maybe there are so… Continue
Does any of you members on this Forum have experience from using BI in Procurement?
I'm not sure whether there are full-time Procurement professionals on this forum besides me, but maybe there are so… Continue
Posted on May 31, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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One of the challenges expressed in some earlier discussions on the "Intelligence Collaborative" forum was how to widen the network internationally, to create a truly international group. Approaching various International Chambers of Commerce…
Hi Eric!
Thank you for creating this new Group. Living in a world which essentially has bursted in the last couple of years, one in which the smoke has yet not cleared enough for anyone to be able to see where the new pockets of opportunity and lat…
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Passing on information collected from tenders to other internal departments is a bit of a touchy subject, as there typically is a representation in a confidentiality agreement (that binds the procurement organization) that the information contained…
Analyzing a supplier's cost structure to assess the viability of the supplier's tender prices contains some challenges as to collecting the information in a legitimate way. Cost analysis would require e.g. investigations into the prices of the suppl…
Hi Tom,
If you are interested in a book about the use of CI/BI/MI in Procurement operations, Robert Handfield's "Supply Market Intelligence: A Managerial handbook for building sourcing strategies" is very valuable.
Best regards,
Ari
I've come across a couple of informative articles that discuss the use of CI in Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
This article from 2007 in Supply Management discusses the use of CI in Procurement
http://www.supplymanagement.com/EDIT/CURRENT…
Procurement professionals are expected to select suppliers that provide best value-for-money for the company they work for. Implementing some solid business intelligence methods in the supplier selection process is one way of securing best value-for…
Hello there...and a thank you to Arthur Weiss for creating this group. Let's soon plan and see how we can develop this "island" forum. All the best...
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