If you’ve been around e-Procurement for as long as we have you may remember when there were just a handful of hosted catalog formats like Ariba CIF files. Creating a file was a matter of downloading the Excel template, populating the data and re-uploading it to the...
I read a fascinating article about Las Vegas Sands last week that talked about an interesting concept, just-in-time purchasing. We’re all familiar with JIT for the manufacturing industry, which has been critical in the supply chain efficiency gains we’ve seen over the...
I’ve been seeing a lot of articles about states and governments announcing implementations of some benefits of e-Procurement, some are strictly vendor management or electronic RFP/RFQ and some are more advanced with full supplier enablement being in scope. In some...
Greenwing Technology is excited to announce our sponsorship of SAP Ariba Live 2019 in beautiful Austin, Texas. Bookmark your calendars for April 1-3 and be sure to stop by for a visit. SAP Ariva Live is one of the largest procurement conferences in the world and...
As an organization using Ariba you may be implementing Guided Buying. Guided buying allows buyers even more visibility and simplicity in the procurement process. It can step the user through the guidelines set by your organization and reduce questions about process...
As we approach the 3rd decade of e-Procurement’s existence it’s important to look back at its roots. E-Procurement began as an extension of an organizations’ procurement department. If we look back to the late 1990’s, when an organization needed supplies such as pens...
