Supplier participation is critical for the success of any eProcurement initiative. However enabling and managing supplier catalogs have long been the Achilles heel of most eProcurement initiatives, leading to issues ranging from a failed implementation to a significantly lower than expected ROI from the system. Industry research states that purchasing organizations grossly underestimate the level of effort and budget required to enable and manage supplier content. This paper identifies the key issues involved with enabling suppliers and suggests a solution that facilitates supplier enablement at significantly lower costs and resource requirements...
 

The most effective Procurement Executives manage their performance like any other executive. They have standard metrics that help them gauge the health of their operations and benchmarks for relative comparisons. However, they are challenged to demonstrate their impact in commonly understood and accepted enterprise financial terms. As part of CPO's Strategic Agenda research series, Aberdeen Group has explored this opportunity in detail with over 500 procurement executives from around the globe...