Exchanging ideas on Social Media usage for Procurement and Supply Chain Management Professionals for annual Ipsera 2012 conference in Naples, Italy

1. this is crowdsourcing researchintosocial media applicationsfor procurement and supply chain management professionals www.baqmar.be

2. please contribute … we are gathering up international examples of social media applications for procurement, purchasing and supply chain management professionals any suggestions? socialmedia4ipsera@gmail.com

3. what are we looking for? NOT the generic social applications like

4. … but specific social media tools for procurement, purchasing and supply chain management professionals, like apps tools blogs sites platforms throughout the world

5. we have already found some … iPhone apps: Einkaufslexikon (Germany) 700 purchasing definitions explained (mentioned by Martin Putters, Cap Gemini)

6. we have already found some … platforms: VendorRator (The Netherlands) b-to-b supplier rating platform for procurement profs (mentioned by Gertjan van Hardeveld, VendorRator)

7. we have already found some … (English-written) sites and blogs with international scope: (mentioned by RuudOlthoff, Rabobank) www.CPOagenda.com blog.procurementleaders.com www.scdigest.com www.supplychaintoday.com www.cardueliss.nl www.spendmatters.com CPOrising.com procureinsights.wordpress.com purchasinginsight.com www.ifpmm.org www.napmbuffalo.com www.escouringforum.com www.cebviews.com/category/taxonomy/procurement-strategies-planning www.npiconnection.org blog.itsourcing-europe.com davidcoethica.wordpress.com/ www.procurement-iu.com/blog/ innovationdrivenprocurement.blogspot.com/

8. how will we use your suggestion? we will add your suggestion to this presentation on slideshare: www.slideshare.net/socialmedia4Ipsera and frequently update the presentation

9. and present it at Ipsera 2012 the results will be used as a basis for a social media research paper presented at the annual Ipsera conference in Naples, Italy April 2012 www.nitl.ie/_fileupload/CfP%20IPSERA%202012.pdf

10. any suggestions? socialmedia4ipsera@gmail.com please indicate your: name country organization or whether you would like to remain anonymous

12. Drs. RuudOlthoff, CPO Rabobank, Netherlands

13. Twitter: SM4I

14. SlideShare: www.slideshare.net/socialmedia4Ipsera

15. Email: socialmedia4ipsera@gmail.com