Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, and Supply Chain Management
European Leaders recently picked up on a story that Dell was recently hit by a supply disruption due to a fire at one of its largest suppliers. According to the story, “The world’s second-largest PC maker said that [a] fire at LG Chem — South Korea’…
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Editors Note: This is the second part of a three-part series. Part 1 provided background and context for D&B’s new Spend Management applications. Part 2, below, analyzes two of D&B’s new products and how they stack-up in the market. And Part 3 will p…
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If you paid $300 million to a company run by a 22 year old CEO and his certified massage therapist VP, would you double check to make sure you got what you paid for? Heck if I ordered a pizza from a couple of characters like that I would look inside the box before ever [...]
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It looks like my predictions that the China craze may soon be coming to an end, first expressed in mid-2006 when I asked if low cost country sourcing to China was really innovative, are coming true. Consider this recent Slate article that points out how we’re now in the last days of cheap chinese [...]
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Who says that bloggers can’t attract the attention of CEOs? As a follow-up to a post and comment exchange with Hubwoo’s CEO, Mark Williams, JP Massin recently sat down with the leader of the European-headquartered provider. And it would appear from t…
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IACCM Americas just wound down earlier today, but I’ve gathered dozens of pages of notes from various presentations. In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing some additional dispatches from the event. For those who are not familiar with IACCM, you should…
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When I go to conferences, it’s the rare opportunity that I have to spend the full event time attending the festivities. Usually, I follow a fly-in / fly-out model based upon speaking commitments or catching specific sessions (or meetings) that I’ve s…
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There comes a time in every consultant’s life when he would love nothing more than to throw in the towel on his current practice area and try something entirely new. I’m not going there just yet — after all, we’re just starting to build Spend Matter…
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A Discussion With Pierre Mitchell
I recently had the chance to catch up with my old friend and colleague, Pierre Mitchell, on a variety of topics. The main focus of our chat was to discuss Hackett’s latest procurement capability maturity model. Th…
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Gartner recently named Source One’s free WhyAbe.com platform as a Cool Vendor in Procurement and Finance for 2008. This is a big score for the sourcing and contract management toolset, when you consider that not many sourcing providers get this recognition from Gartner and that previous winners have included FreeFlow, Vinimaya, and BIQ - [...]
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