As Tim pointed out the other day, Telefonica has some impressive numbers to show for their e-sourcing efforts. But I think the truly amazing thing is that they’ve had such success while managing €25.2 billion in spend for the 4th largest telecom company on the planet, which operates across 21 countries. And given that they’ve [more]

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Sonoco’s Supply Systems Manager, Jennifer Roberts, gave an interesting talk on their Supplier Performance Management (SPM) efforts at Ariba LIVE in Brussels last week. Her team has led Sonoco’s efforts to move off of static Excel spreadsheets and to a more automated and far reaching approach. Ultimately, they want to bring every “critical” supplier into [more]

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