First of all, the doctor would like to thank all of the bloggers and guest bloggers who participated in the first Sourcing Innovation sponsored cross-blog series of 2008. With nineteen participants and well over thirty postings on the topic, the doctor believes it was a great success. In case you missed a post, [...]
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Yesterday, Wired published an article summarizing the recent State of Green Business 2008 from Greener Media which gives a bracingly candid interpretation of businesses’ green and greenwashing efforts. The report found that only 8 of 20 indicators showed progress in 2007 while 2 of the indicators, e-waste and carbon intensity, actually got worse. [...]
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In a previous entry I talked about how the utilisation of Spend Analysis software makes the rational of a vendor reduction programme less relevant. When reading the latest report from The World Economic Forum on the risks for 2008 I am convinced this logic will now start to gain more momentum.
According to the WEF [...]
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Over on Spend Matters, Jason Busch points out that the market, and not regulation, is the reason sustainability wins. He points out that maybe we should review Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point to better understand how trends become standard practice. He notes that sustainability in the supply chain is on the verge of [...]
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In their winter edition, the CPO Agenda just published another article on everybody’s favorite person – the CPO. This one was called More Than Just The Goalkeeper.
But before I review it, I should note that a number of similar articles have been cropping up – exclaiming the importance of this individual – over the [...]
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Sustainability may be more … much more … than being green, but that doesn’t mean one should ignore the great article that recently popped up over on Chief Executive.The article essentially starts off by noting that while CEOs would argue that global warming is a legitimate universal problem to be solved, they may not be [...]
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Purchasing B2B had a good article over the summer called Suppliers Like You Because? Discovering All Your Leverage Points by Terence Lillew that had a list of nine discussion points that should be considered in the development of a cost management strategy for a category.
1. Dollar Volume
Dollar volume is generally the [...]
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Last November, the Supply Chain Management Review ran an article on The Sustainable Supply Chain that noted that being sustainable is now a source of competitive advantage and a matter of corporate survival rather than a costly inconvenience. The article, based on a study by A.T. Kearney and the ISM that surveyed a diverse [...]
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Eric Hiller gave us a granola definition in his first post on sustainability over on Cost Cents. Eric’s take on the debate is that a business should understand how to cost or value the profit of a sustainability initiative, since businesses have to be sustainable themselves before they can “go green” or “save the planet”. [...]
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There is an economic storm brewing and its called a recession. I believe Zig Ziglar once stated that experts have predicted 36 out of the last 2 recessions. The problem is, that nobody actually knows if we are in a recession until the economy is already pulling out of it. To start, [...]
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