Comments on: Spend Intelligence Found http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/01/09/spend-intelligence-found/ The source of information and best practices in strategic sourcing. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:06:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: David Rotor http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/01/09/spend-intelligence-found/#comment-4228 David Rotor Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:15:05 +0000 http://www.esourcingforum.com/?p=339#comment-4228 Thanks for the link to the post on micro and macro analysis. It was also interesting to see the hat tip to Bernie Gunther and Tariq Hassan's new "The Buying Triangle". I had a team take a hard look at their approach and the response was very favourable. I'm just a procurement practitioner and look to guys like you and Tim Minahan for insight and research, but I'll comment when I think I can contribute. Cheers, David Rotor Thanks for the link to the post on micro and macro analysis. It was also interesting to see the hat tip to Bernie Gunther and Tariq Hassan’s new “The Buying Triangle”. I had a team take a hard look at their approach and the response was very favourable.

I’m just a procurement practitioner and look to guys like you and Tim Minahan for insight and research, but I’ll comment when I think I can contribute.

Cheers,

David Rotor

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Thank you for your comments and insightful post. I just found your blog this week and have been regularly popping in to review. We recently wrote on micro-map vs macro-map that you may find interesting:

http://www.esourcingforum.com/?p=309

I look forward to more collaboration and discussion. db

]]> By: David Rotor http://www.esourcingforum.com/archives/2007/01/09/spend-intelligence-found/#comment-4225 David Rotor Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:35:44 +0000 http://www.esourcingforum.com/?p=339#comment-4225 David, I have a slightly different view on thefuture of expenditure analysis. That said, I understand and value the historic approach, as I wrote today on my blog: "I agree in the value of expenditure analysis, in 2006 I led a team that needed to understand $20 billion in purchasing across over 100 organizations. It will come as no surprise to anyone in procurement that among the very first thing we did was start grabbing data to build an expenditure database, and then started mining that database to understand both micro and macro purchasing behaviours." I don't want expenditure analysis to tell me that my process cost $120/transaction and wiped out all the savings. I want expenditure analysis to tell me it's happening, before my savings are wiped out. Cheers, David Rotor David,

I have a slightly different view on thefuture of expenditure analysis. That said, I understand and value the historic approach, as I wrote today on my blog:

“I agree in the value of expenditure analysis, in 2006 I led a team that needed to understand $20 billion in purchasing across over 100 organizations. It will come as no surprise to anyone in procurement that among the very first thing we did was start grabbing data to build an expenditure database, and then started mining that database to understand both micro and macro purchasing behaviours.”

I don’t want expenditure analysis to tell me that my process cost $120/transaction and wiped out all the savings. I want expenditure analysis to tell me it’s happening, before my savings are wiped out.

Cheers,

David Rotor

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