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Knowledge Groups Sprouting on ELP

August 27th, 2007 at 06:16am David Bush - Iasta

Every few months or so, I like to peruse the European Leaders in Procurement website, since it is very content rich and makes improvements regularly. Last week, I took notice to some interesting new areas that I, at least had not noticed previously. These are what ELP is calling Knowledge Groups and are described as:

Knowledge Groups offer a rich source of content, ideas and innovative concepts around a variety of strategic procurement areas.

The groups provide member-only news and articles, cutting-edge research and knowledge on the most important topics across the procurement landscape. Each Knowledge Group is moderated by an interactive leader and driven by an advisory board and steering committee with extensive experience in the field.

Members are provided access to events, roundtables, meeting transcripts, presentations, white papers, research and a variety of other topic-related information.

Two in particular, look interesting to those in the eSourcing knowledge space.

Spend Management
Procurement leaders are making a step-change in spend analysis and are looking at spend management as a platform to support an analytical, data-driven approach to managing procurement and operations on a sustainable basis. Not simply about good data, successful spend management should highlight compliance leakages, be repeatable, results driven and realize savings.

Strategic Sourcing
This Knowledge Group will provide best practice for effective strategic sourcing that delivers ongoing results for the business. Members will have the opportunity to contact experienced practitioners, read the latest opinions and thinking, and share real-life examples with others.

It seems to have better structure than the same concept from Purchasing.com. However, this is merely a design problem for Purchasing, I believe. My first impression was that ELP was simply better and more useful but this really seems to be because the have a better site design. They are missing RSS feeds (PM provides) which is a big omission, and make much of the site subscription based, which Purchasing does not. Little things, like displaying the date stamps though, just make the site seem really fresh and new. Both are very useful and worth saving for continual usage.

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