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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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Hello!
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…
A collective of professionals and passionate amateurs around the globe who analyze a world in transition and help guide leaders in their most critical decisions.
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...
A group for people based in the UK (& Ireland) with an interest in competitive & marketing intelligence.
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- At 1:35pm on April 15, 2009,
Andrew Beurschgens said…
- Welcome Ari, welcome!
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Missed again, darn! Hope you enjoy the SCIP conference.
My pleasure.
Great links! Thanks.
http://knol.google.com/k/interviewing-and-elicitation-in-competitive-intelligence#
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The sad truth is that many rogue consultants do exist within the competitive intelligence community. They will lie, cheat, and steal to obtain infor…
Yes Stephen,
The dilemma in information collection:
Is casting wide net [ CWN } appropriate or the Kingfisher approach.
Joining random isolated dots and the ability to see the big picture.
I believe it is the ability to read the subtle emissions…
Tad Sir,
Ha..ha..ha.. LOL.
Client References! There are many ways to interpret this.
Sometimes we use it for branding, and sometimes because we want to show our competence.
We are like the Chef. We have our own signature, and nobody can replicat…
Don't worry, Vivek! None of us is suspicious to such a degree as to be paralyzed. However, none of us is simultaneously as gullible as Roger Prince, Sr. in the video ( http://fedcba.ning.com/video/client-lists ) quoted in one of my comments on Bonni…
Hi Vivek. Thanks for writing! It's the timeless dilemma - we (or our clients) need the information, but if we were 100% honest and transparent about EVERYTHING with a source we would never obtain it.
For the record, I'm not here to cast judgement o…
Way to have a good time last night! Thanks for coming to our dinner, all 37 of us! We sort of took over the upper level of the Meskerem and had a memorable experience together as we mopped up the Ethiopian cuisine with the spongy bread that replaces…
Stephen,
The wheels of Deception.
Just a little bit of humor:-
One type of Deception can be advocate competitive intelligence very strongly and fool the world into believing that we are holier than thou.
This way the world will believe that we a…
UAV is a machine with many intelligence gathering uses, isn't it ( http://fedcba.ning.com/xn/detail/2516803:Comment:9429 )? :-)
James,
Well, first I think referring to this as a "value analysis project" or surmising that the Value Analysis methodology is appropriate for this kind of question set isn't accurate. VA and it's counterpart, FAST, tend to be frameworks for NPD re…
I think we'll have a good 20 people tonight since Martha and her gang of 5 or so are also coming! remember the reservation is under "Ellen". I thought Intelligence Collaborative would be too long especially when they didn't even want to take my last…
Intelligence Collaborative Dinner at Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant
March 10, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Meskerem Ethiopian Restaurant
Join us for dinner after SCIP at 7:30 PM in the charming Adams Morgan neighborhood. Meskerem is 0.8 miles from the SCIP Conference at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.
Check out the http://meskeremethiopianfood.c…
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