Ev’rybody’s looking for a perfect world
where you could save everything your heart desires.
A perfect buy will happen every time
and the perfect order will set your world on fire.
What you gonna do
when one and one makes three?
And a vision of the future is impossible to see.
Nobody’s perfect
not even [...]
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World Trade has had some great articles of late. Personally, I find it fascinating how a publication aimed at the trade and customs crowd can be of even greater benefit for procurement and supply chain professionals. But unfortunately, I don’t think this compact trade rag is reaching many folks that own Spend Management issues within [...]
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Kudos to Jason Wood and Vinnie Mirchandani for surfacing an Optimize magazine article — and adding their own thoughts to it — on software myth busting. Here are some of the myths they point out that need to be busted:
Rule #1: Seat-licensing is the best way to price business software
Rule #3: [...]
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There is an online publication named Outsourcing Journal which recently ran a story on eSourcing technology and they got some very interesting quotes for the story, namely from Moi. Obviously, I am not going to run many opinions out here on the story, because my opinions are already in the story. I will [...]
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Ever wonder what your CEO is thinking? Well, a new study of 443 C-level executives from Saugatuck Technology and Business Week Research Services purports to have the answer. Here it is:
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Okay, stop laughing.
There really are some valuable insights buried in that chart — even if they’re not presented in the most coherent [...]
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At the moment, there are a lot of question marks out there about SAP MDM (Master Data Management). Sure we all know MDM can be used as a catalog content management system — which it is in SAP SRM 6.0 — but how much more is it really? In my view, historically speaking, MDM is [...]
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Actually, I really do enjoy the learning, social and speaking aspects of attending events, but I hate the travel and business disruption that the spring conference season causes. In the next two months, I’ll be headed to the following events: SAP Sapphire (Atlanta), Iasta reSource (Indy), Corporate United’s Synergy (Chicago), D/C Expo (Chicago), Ariba LIVE [...]
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They’re some blogs that I should add to my “everyday” reading list, but I usually only get to a few times a week. And one of those — which will soon be on my official bookmarks — is CombineNotes. Paul Martyn, CombineNote’s blogger-in-chief, has had some posts of late (even if they’re self-trumpeting, I [...]
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When I posted my 2007 predictions for the supply management discipline earlier this year, one projection caused considerable backlash: “You will rethink your low-cost country sourcing strategy.”
I argued that the risks, lead-times, and hidden costs of emerging market hotspots — particularly India and China — would make these faraway regions less attractive as sourcing destinations. [...]
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As you know, Supply & Demand Chain Executive recently announced their Pros To Know for 2007. Like Jason, I think some names were missing from that list. Jason pointed out that Mickey North Rizza and Mark Hillman were conspicuously absent.
Today I make my first nomination to the Pros You Should Know – But [...]
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