Few, if any, people still deny that US healthcare costs put the nation at a competitive disadvantage, wreak of inefficiency and must be confronted soon. And as Washington begins to debate the direction the nation will move, PBS Frontline’s Sick Around America program last night showed us the magnitude of the challenges ahead:
And while many [...]
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Despite my free trade leanings, I would never advocate that a company source 100% from abroad (unless, of course, global suppliers were willing to own inventory stateside and manage a JIT program at their expense). Wishful thinking. That’s why I foun…
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It appears that Republican Senators have convinced their fellow colleague, Arlen Specter, to vote against the card check legislation working its way through Congress. While I personally believe this is the right thing when it comes to helping Americ…
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Once upon a time, there was a beautiful old wooden hotel in the North Country. The owner had coaxed an award-winning chef with a new family away from the hurry-scurry of the big city, so the food was fabulous. The staff were locals imbued with the history of the region and an encyclopedic [...]
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Even though I’ve spent a good — and much deserved — amount of time recently beating up on SAP around some areas of eProcurement and the SRM 7.0 launch, I’ve not given our favorite German ERP provider the positive attention they deserve around spend…
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Recent Supply Excellence posts demonstrating why current economic factors (i.e., low demand, lower fuel prices, tight credit, and high unemployment) have conspired to create the best sourcing market in decades have been met with mixed response. While a number of sourcing managers are boasting how the current market has reenergized their sourcing automation (e-sourcing) programs, an [...]
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Although it was targeted at retailers, a recent Harvard Business Review article titled How to Market in a Downturn made a good point that enterprise software and solution providers need to heed, especially if they want to not only survive this downturn but pick up new business. The message is this: “Marketing is NOT [...]
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While I have not spent more than a few minutes reading Obama’s latest words about the government’s plan for GM and Chrysler, I can say my initial reaction is that I’m glad we have a President who is finally showing some tough love to Detroit. The nex…
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Here’s a little tidbit that provides further evidence that software as a services (SaaS) is taking over many subsets of the applications market. Concur, one of the leaders in the T&E space, is rumored to be dropping support for its behind the firewal…
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The Sourcing Innovation Resource Site, always immediately accessible from the link under the “Free Resources” section of the sidebar, continues to add new content on a weekly, and often daily, basis. The total number of unique, active resources exceeds the 2,400 mark, and breaks down as follows: [...]
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