Blog Profile / Supply Excellence
| URL : | http://www.supplyexcellence.com/blog/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance | |
| Posts on Regator: | 453 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.8 | |
| Archived Since: | August 14, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Peer Discussion Tomorrow with Roy Anderson: What will procurement look like in 2020?
I saw an advance copy of the “Procurement 2020? report last week..and it’s got some VERY interesting insights and provocative questions from industry leaders. One of the CPOs interviewed for the report is Roy Anderson, former MetLife CPO and current VP of Procurement Services at Metasys Technoloogies. Roy offered to speak with the Strategic Sourcing [...]
Help with The Hackett Group survey on Inflation and get a copy of results
Perfect timing for The Hackett Group’s survey on inflation and its impact on procurement and supply chains. This week the topic of inflation is sure to be front and center on the businesss section of any newspaper as US Fed Chairman Bernanke goes before Congress for his semiannual report. With inflation (or at least the [...]
Interview with Maureen Kelsey: Change & Transformation
This Thursday at 9am Pacific Time, I’m moderating the monthly member call for the LinkedIn group Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. Group members know that I choose the topic every month based on feedback, ideas and volunteers from the members. So when Maureen Kelsey stepped up and offered to share some of her insights on ‘change [...]
Peer Discussion Replay: “What’s on your Dashboard?”
Last month, we kicked off the 2011 Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member conference calls with a lively discussion of Dashboards. What’s on them?, How did you decide what to measure?, How do you share them?, Where are they heading in the future?, and a host of other related topics made for a great [...]
“What’s on your Dashboard?” - Join the call to discuss
Let’s get 2011 off to a great start with our January Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member call on Dashboards. The topic has come up often in the group. So it’s time to get our collective heads together and share Dashboard challenges, best practices, metrics and anything else that helps us quantify performance, success [...]
Replay: ‘Unpacking Oliver’ Discussion with Kate Vitasek
Hopefully you were able to attend the December Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member call with Kate Vitasek last month. We had a lively discussion centered around the paper she co-wrote - “Unpacking Oliver - 10 Lessons to Improve Collaborative Outsourcing “ (download here). Nobel Laureate Dr Oliver Williamson’s work dug into the incentives [...]
Fill in the blanks: “2010 was ___. And my goal for 2011 is ___.”
Another year is nearly behind us. As we’re counting the minutes before holiday parties, vacations and ski trips, I thought it would be good to reflect on 2010 and look forward to 2011. And since I know everyone is busy scrambling to meet business and personal deadlines, let’s do this short and sweet. In the [...]
Q&A with Kate Vitasek on Collaborative Outsourcing
Kate Vitasek, who literally wrote the book on Vested Outsourcing and spoke on that topic on a Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn Group member call earlier this year, has volunteered to lead our Nov/Dec Group member call to discuss… “Unpacking Oliver - 10 Lessons to Improve Collaborative Outsourcing “ The paper (which you’ll want to download here [...]
Green Hotel Built in 2 Days (Now THAT’S Collaboration!)
I would really love to hear the collaborative conversations that must have gone on with the suppliers that made constructing this 15 story green hotel in China in just 2 days possible. This is where the business world is headed. The right suppliers working with the buyer of choice to innovate. Justin Fogarty is Managing Editor of [...]
Discuss ‘Nuisance Spend’ with your peers tomorrow
Tomorrow I’m moderating the October LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call. This month’s topic is ‘Nuisance Spend’ - that low volume, high SKU count spend that can be the most difficult to bring under management. As always, we’ll be encouraging participation - questions, insights and discussion - from the audience. These calls are [...]
VIDEO: Gartner’s Dennis Gaughan on eCommerce Trends
This week at the Ariba Commerce Summit in New York, Gartner’s Dennis Gaughan shared their firms insights into b2b commerce trends, including ‘the cloud’, working capital management and collaboration. We’ll be shooting a lot of interviews at the Commerce Summits over the next few weeks. So, check back here, on Ariba Exchange or our YouTube channel [...]
Video: Dana Gardner on 3 ‘Mega Trends’ in IT (cloud, mobile & community)
This week at the Ariba Commerce Summit in Atlanta, Interarbor Solutions‘ Dana Gardner shared his view of how these 3 Mega Trends - cloud, mobile and community - are changing the IT landscape. We’ll be shooting a lot of interviews at the Commerce Summits over the next few weeks. So, check back here, on Ariba Exchange [...]
Increasing Cash Flow: How to approach suppliers
Last week on the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call, we discussed the relationship and HUGE opportunity for procurement and finance to work together. That internal collaboration can be the 1st step towards increased liquidity that doesn’t come at the expense of supply chain health. Once the procurement/finance working capital management goals are established, [...]
Sourcing ‘Sexy’ Categories (Like Coffee)
Today in the US, it’s National Drink Coffee Day. Now I don’t know if that’s an official holiday of any kind or just another internet meme, similar to Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th). But the ‘holiday’ reminded me of a recent discussion thread on Ariba Exchange about sourcing coffee, which dug into strategy [...]
Conference Call on Procurement & Finance this Thursday
This Thursday, I’m moderating the September LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call. This month, we’re talking about Finance, specifically the relationship between finance and procurement. Helping us navigate this...Show More Summary
Podcast: S&DCExec’s Andy Reese on technology, trends & executive attitudes on procurement
I had the good fortune to interview Andy Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine, on the current state of procurement, executive attitudes about technology and the cloud, and his ‘crystal ball’ predictions for 5-10 years out (Podcast available here). It was a great opportunity to turn the tables - the interviewer becomes [...]
Replay of call on KPIs is available
Through the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group on LinkedIn, we had an open conference call for members to come together and collaborate on KPIs. It provided a great opportunity for people to ask and answer questions with their peers about this extremely important topic. The replay is now available for anyone to listen to (it’s the [...]
Trader Joes: Happy customers, employees & suppliers
A week ago the Huffington Post featured a slide-show look at Trader Joe’s - The Semi-Secret World of Trader Joe’s: The Tasty Bits. As a long time TJ’s shopper and arguably decent cook (well, if you ask my 6 year old son anyway - he swears by my grilled pizzas), I like getting a glimpse [...]
KPI discussion with your peers tomorrow
Tomorrow, I am moderating the monthly member call for the LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group. This month’s topic is KPIs. So please join us if you have KPI questions or insights, or if you’d just like to hear your peers engaged in a lively discussion of the subject. The details: Tuesday, August 31st 9am Pacific Daylight Time No [...]
Private Equity ready for the Commerce Cloud?
The glory days of the Private Equity (PE) world are certainly not over but they are changing. Firms today are struggling to attract new investments and to manage the portfolio companies they own. The days of the quick buy and sell are long gone. The PE firms today are faced with attempting to figure out how [...]