It’s my opinion that Ariba is about to embark on its third transformation. And this one will prove no less challenging — though perhaps significantly longer-lived — than the first two. But if Ariba gets this one right, they’ll have a huge Blue Ocean ahead of them loaded with opportunity rather than competition. And in […]
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While it’s not exactly new news — milk good PR for all it’s worth, I say — Zycus’ spend visibility deal with Orkla is fascinating given the multi-lingual, multi-currency environment that its applications are supporting. According to Supply and Demand Chain Executive, the Norwegian company is “deploying Zycus’ spend data management solution to gain view […]
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Dave McCormick, an ex-FreeMarkets executive, continues to blaze trades in his DC career (too bad he’s working for a President who believes in free trade only when it supports his own interests). This morning, I offer my personal congrats to Dave for
securing an even more important post on the global trade front. Starting in […]
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The Supply Management Forum in San Jose last week was a venerable Who’s Who in high technology, with supply management executives from the world’s leading software, hardware, and media companies swapping stories and tips on global supply strategies. And that was just the audience.
Our featured panelists included Roll International Corporation Director of Strategic Sourcing Alvin […]
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Given my temperament to tout the talent gap that is now increasing daily, I was happy to see the recent article from the European Leaders Network that stated People Do Matter Most, Really. The article, which referenced a recently completed research study, revealed, again to my content, that the best performing CPOs are concentrating […]
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Over on Supply and Demand Chain Executive, Exostar’s Peter Scott has bylined an insightful column that examines ten of the common challenges manufacturers — and A&D providers, in particular — face when they operate in global, interconnected environments. The piece is a great primer for those operating worldwide today — from supply, manufacturing and customer […]
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Supply & Demand Executive recently ran an article that an organization can use to determine whether it needs a more strategic approach to manage external supply networks. The article presented ten questions and indicated that if an organization answered yes to at least half, then it should consider investing resources to better understand and […]
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This is my first full week back in the office after nearly two months of shuttling back and forth between conferences and clients. Fortunately, the “free time” — everything is relative, I guess — is giving me the opportunity to think more seriously about analyzing the future of Ariba and other vendors in the Spend […]
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What’s the best thing since the advent of the Internet? You Tube. No doubt about it. If you had any questions as to why, here’s further proof. My RSS hat goes off to Workday and Jeff Pulver’s aerobatics and creativity. An ERP implementation never looked more bloated…
- Jason Busch
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Frequent Spend Matters readers already know my view on “fair trade” products. Personally, I think the entire “fair trade” game is a marketing ploy — AKA, an emotional tariff — designed to entice yuppies to pay more for products that they’ll feel less guilty about buying without offering any advantage in quality (other than helping […]
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