The week of knowledge

The week of knowledge

An interesting week. Filled with new knowledge, but on all kinds of different aspects in my working life!
The introduction to the new to be released European Public Tender rules was interesting from my Entrepreneur's view as well as from my Procurement-consulting's view. As a supplier I am very glad with the fact that those new set of rules attempt to force a more qualitative and considered way of working with some of the tendering governments. So dear suppliers, please let me urge you (us) all to keep them to that principles. But on the other hand, as a procurement consultant, delivering processes and procedures, and also a.i. purchasers to those same governments, it will force our competition to bringing their work at our level of quality, because the rules simply do not allow for shortage of carefullness anymore. In general I would say: hopefully it will help us professionalize our B2G market again for a little bit.
Let us wait and see from April 1st, ehm, really, April 1st...?

More knowledge this week came from an insight session we had at our office yesterday within SAP SRM 7.02. Insiders know that really (!) understanding what's new within a new Enhancementpack (EHP2 in this case) is key to being of distinctive added value to your customers. Thanks a lot to our German friends for giving us the opportunity again! We are certainly able to use the information in our product development and service delivery.

Last but not least, I started a study over the last few days towards the change effectiveness of eProcurement implementations and the differentiating behavior of key-figures in that effect.. way too much to tell about now, but it will keep me busy over the coming months so certainly it will be brushed upon a few times in this weblog!

Time to start thinking about an Easter weekend now..

Doede van Haperen
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