With all the negative attention that China has been getting lately, I only thought it fair to point out that before you think of jumping ship to one of its closest neighbors, India, it also has its share of problems. According to Speeding Up, but still not ahead in the Business Standard, despite [...]
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In our last post, we discussed the importance of employee representation and their need to freely associate, corresponding to section F of the report. In today’s post, we cover section G of The John Lewis Partnership’s Responsible Sourcing Supplier Workbook which covers working hours. In some countries, such as Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and [...]
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My hosting provider will be performing maintenance and site updates again today, 2007-07-25, at 10:00 pm UTC-7 (Pacific Daylight Time). This means the blog will be down temporarily. (Estimated: 6 hours) …
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I’ve been pretty confused by all the back-and-forth reported by traditional media surrounding the upcoming auction for a measley 30Mhz slice of the upper band of the 700Mhz spectrum (shown above). Comments from Google, Verizon, the FCC itself and countless others have provided a lot of color but no clarity. What’s the fuss about?
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Over on Supply Excellence, Tim Minihan posted a VERY SERIOUS piece entitled Purchasing is Dead. (And Other Conspiracies.) that calls to light the recent injustice of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to supply and spend management professionals everywhere! It’s so devastating, that I asked for kind permission to re-post Tim’s original blog post [...]
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As proof that you can’t believe everything you read, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that overall employment for purchasing and supply managers is expected to “grow slower than the average for all occupations through the year 2014.”
What?
Don’t tell that to the VP of Procurement and Operations at a Massachusetts-based manufacturing company I met [...]
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Coupa, who just hosted their first webinar, is still heads down in their quest to make their enterprise e-Procurement application better and better by the day, and still succeeding. Now covering the full order management cycle from requisition to two-or-three way reconciliation, the only thing it doesn’t do yet, at a basic level, is [...]
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This article in supply management is a classic misconception that just by adding together more of the same does not always equal lower unit costs. As highlighted by Michael Lamoureux there are a number of issues that inhibit collaboration like culture, time and timing.
I think the SM article gives us a great opportunity to [...]
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For those of you looking for a good introductory overview of decision optimization for strategic sourcing, two new resources hit the bit-stream today. First of all, there’s the “What is Supply Chain Optimization?” (Part I and Part II) podcast, part of the Next Level Purchasing’s podcast series that features [...]
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Today, Supply Excellence would like to welcome Chris Happ, Executive Vice President and co-founder of blueSolutions Inc., a technical and business strategy consulting firm focused on assisting with supply management technology and strategy deployments. A veteran consultant himself, Happ tackles the ever-elusive questions of What is supply management, really? And how can it deliver value [...]
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