Every generation ultimately laments technological progress and loves to reminisce about “the good old days” as we grow older. As the rate of technological change and innovation continues to grow exponentially — accompanied by a human propensity to c…
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Share This on Linked In A recent article in i2’s Supply Chain Leader by Kevin O’Marah of AMR on how [do] you design a supply chain organization to achieve maximum value did a great job recounting dozens of statistics that we already know about how great supply chains make great companies, but [...]
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Ariba had a mixed bag of a quarter. You can read the highlights from this Reuter’s dispatch here. In short, revenue was slightly down year-over-year (to $83.9 million) but profit edged ahead of expectations. Subscription revenue (i.e., SaaS applicati…
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Share This on Linked In In A New Supply Chain Normal?, Dan Gilmore of the Supply Chain Digest asked if there will be a new supply chain normal coming out out of the recession as many of the financial experts are expecting a new financial normal. His answer was that there [...]
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With apologies to other less fit solutions providers that would rather trade thoughts over a meal than over a run, a number of members of the BravoSolution team somehow cajoled me into signing up for the Chicago Marathon this Fall (rumor is that one …
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Without question, our most renowned and well published social philosopher in the history of the U.S. was Benjamin Franklin. His Bostonian Puritan birthright and teenage flight to Quaker Philadelphia where he established his own newspaper positioned h…
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Share This on Linked In I couldn’t help but notice this recent article in Intelligent Enterprise that noted that SAP offered 91M for SAF. Now, good inventory management software is extremely valuable because it can significantly reduce the 30%+ overhead (on product cost) that many organizations lose in inventory each year, but SAF [...]
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Over on Charles Dominick’s Purchasing Certification Blog, a recent entry suggests that as “communication methods have changed throughout history, negotiation has followed”. He gives a bit of bartering history noting that, “prior to the industrial rev…
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I’m hoping that every Spend Matters reader in North America who either has control over fleet spend or their own personal automotive purchases is doing their patriotic duty to not buy American. Or at least to not buy Government Motors or Chrysler. Be…
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Share This on Linked In In Win-Win Sourcing by Bill Jackson and Michael Pfitzmann in Booze Allen’s Sourcing Reloaded, the authors define knowledge-based sourcing as an approach where manufacturers and suppliers share a long-term commitment to improving each other’s capabilities, starting by working together to eliminate wasted effort and other inefficiencies. They then [...]
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