In this penultimate post of this eight-part series, I’m going to help you understand the subtleties of using escalation clauses.
Wait. There’s a problem already.
Do you know what it is?
Well, think about the term “escalation clause.” What d…
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By: Dinesh Goel, Partner, TPI
Speed sourcing is the industry’s new buzzword. Speed sourcing refers to the process of getting to outsourced contracts in timescales much shorter than the traditional approach.
Why now? Nothing has changed in the sourcin…
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A large portion of companies operate in the blind when it comes to negotiating transportation/rule contracts because they leave the negotiating process in the hands of a Traffic Manager, Purchasing Agent or Cost Account who may have little or no unders…
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Mike McMenamin, Associate Partner & Director, Contact Center Services, TPI
In the past 3-5 years contact center outsourcing, a $60 billion market, has experienced significant consolidation. Here is a timeline of how the consolidation progressed:
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The primary difference between “Spend Radar” and previous Spend Classification/Reporting tools is that the entire application has been developed with a “data-driven architecture”. How is this important to our customers, channel partners, and …
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After reading the first five parts of this series, it may seem that all you have to do is communicate properly and you’ll always get what you want, when you want it.
Well, you will indeed avoid much of the heartburn that less educated buyers experien…
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I originally wrote this post for the Sourcing Innovation series for this month. You can follow the link and see the other efforts, or just take my word for it and know that this was the best guest post.
As any one who has been around e-Sourcing techno…
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Courtesy of I Can Has Cheezburger.com. For managing your supply chain … For dealing with oil crises … For environmentally friendly shipping of live animals … [...]
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Starting next week, Sourcing Innovation will be running a special series on “Sourcing Tomorrow: The e-Leaders Speak” that will feature pieces from the visionaries behind many of the top e-Sourcing and e-Procurement vendors. So far, a dozen leaders of a dozen leading e-Sourcing and e-Procurement vendors have agreed to put their thoughts to paper [...]
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Share This on Linked In A recent article in Industry Week, which noted that logistics [is] on a bumpy road to recovery, had a scary statistic: 7% of the available capacity on US highways was eliminated last year as more than 3,000 trucking companies went out of business. And many more [...]
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