Like most of you, I spent the last week glued to my financial TV news outlets, rss feeds, Wall Street Journal and (because I was traveling) the USA Today Money section, trying to make some sense of the turmoil rocking the banking sector. When giant, old institutions like Lehman Bros. and AIG fail, and [...]
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September 24th, 2008 | Posted in Best Practices, Financial Value Chain, Outsourcing, Sourcing, Supplier Management, Supply Management, supply chain finance, supply market dynamics, supply risk
The Doctor at Sourcing Innovation created another cross-blog series, asking a number of us to give our Seven Grand Challenges for Supply and Spend Management. Some insightful posts have already tackled topics like spend data, currency, trade barriers and supply chain risks. But rather than echoing their lists, which I believe are largely right on [...]
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September 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Procurement, Sourcing, Supplier Management, Supply Management, predictions, supply market dynamics, supply risk
Few would deny that spend management has taken hold and earned it’s place at the table in the C-Suite of large companies. But in the mid-market (<$2 billion in annual revenues), adoption of the principals and tools of the “big companies” has been slower to take hold. In fact, we recently conducted a survey of [...]
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September 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Best Practices, Case Study, On Demand/SaaS, Procurement, Success Story, Supply Management, mid-market/growing enterprise, webinar