Week 45 ahead on ESF

November 2nd, 2007 at 09:02am David Bush - Iasta

Next week, I will devote these virtual pages to a special series on eSourcing and eProcurement and where their respective spheres cross. I have enlisted some friends in the industry to help give perspective on topics such as integration and next generation supplier networks.

Next week’s authors will include myself, Dave Stephens - CEO of Coupa, Gary Hare - CEO of Vinimaya, and Michael Lamoureux - blogger extraordinaire, consultant, and visionary. I truly welcome as many other opinions and guest posters as can be stuffed in to the party. If you read something next week that inspires your own lengthy agreement or rebuttal, please let me know and it will be published.

My original goal was to tackle a concept that gets discussed regularly but rarely, ever implemented. The concept of an integrated platform for sourcing and procurement. There are legions of people on both sides of the value proposition of this argument, and probably always will be. Since I had a couple posts come to me in favor of the idea, I decided to stump strongly against the idea. In reality, I do side more on the “against integration” side of the fence, but I do also see the value in seamless applications. My post will explain why in much more detail as I believe integration is a word mastered much more by good sales reps and much less by practitioners. I absolutely do not believe there is a right answer to these problems, there are only individual scenarios that must be analyzed and acted on within a vacuum.

I hope the posts are thought provoking and valuable to others and very much appreciate those that helped me try to flush out some of these issues. As I mentioned, I do not believe any one can state one method is better than another but there are very well thought out arguments for both coming soon.

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