Supply Watch report subscribers likely know about this (and have hopefully registered already), but the Category Management team is holding one of their Top 5 Categories to Source Now webinars tomorrow. The details:
Thursday April 1st at 11am Eastern Time (3:00 GMT)
Register here.
On the agenda tomorrow are:
Mike Petro, Lead Category Manager, North America
Loriann Andersen, Category Manager, [...]
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Someday you’ll be sorrySomeday when you’re freeMemories will remind youOf what was meant to beBut late at night when you call for helpThe only sound you’ll hearIs the sound of your voice callingCalling out for helpJust throwing it all awayThrowing it all awayAnd there’s nothing that I can sayWith apologies to Phil Collins, that slightly modified verse just keeps playing over and over again in my head. This recent article in Industry Week on optimizing outsourcing relationships for today’s market realities has me shaking my head. Manufacturers signed contracts to outsource more than $10.4 billion worth of IT …
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Last year, I told you how you could Get Hip with Hiperos, an “Extended Enterprise Management” platform that allows you to manage your risk, performance, compliance, sustainability, and supplier information through a single portal that they dubbed R3. Knowing that you can’t stay still in the quickly evolving supply chain space (and knowing that there were lots of point players with deeper solutions in each), they’ve been hard at work on R4 since that time. Last week, I had the chance to do a detailed review of R4, and am pleased to say that they did a great …
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C-SPAN has never been known for their riveting programming line-up. Even die hard political junkies like myself shun the channel these days in favor of alternative sources of news and analysis. But C-SPAN’s value changes dramatically if you can cut out the bloviating and get to the meat of what you would like to see. [...]
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A recent blog entry on strategy on the morph from The Conversation over at the Harvard Business Review had three great tips on how to get your strategy right in these turbulent times that need to be highlighted. Distribute the right to make strategy throughout your organization Strategy needs to be a collective effort — not an edict handed down from on high — and people need to be empowered to make the right decisions. One process does not fit all decisions Some processes need to be long …
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While the cost to deliver a unit of computing resource continues to fall, there is a “traitor” to the cause of lower costs – Software. Software, eight years ago, was typically in the 40% range of the total cost to deliver a MIPS. Now, we see …
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Since I last covered Algorhythm and their supply chain optimization rhythm, they’ve been pounding out a steady beat and extending the breadth and power of their unique supply chain optimization platform. Not only do they have extensive optimization capabilities in production planning, network planning, and logistics planning — with specialized solutions for oil, steel, and packaging, but they now have a best of breed multi-echelon inventory optimization capabilities and a best of breed distribution network design optimization platform that can take multi-echelon inventory requirements into account and allow you to optimize your distribution network around your detailed inventory requirements, which …
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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 — and it will continue to do so.The following is a short selection of upcoming webinars and events that you might want to check out in the coming weeks:Date & TimeWebcast2010-Mar-3012:00 GMT-05:00/CDT/ESTCollaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment in the Global Supply Chain Sponsor: PMAC2010-Mar-3014:30 GMT-05:00/CDT/ESTConnecting the Dots – Identify, Negotiate and Realize Savings Sponsor: Zycus2010-Mar-3013:00 GMT-05:00/CDT/ESTCirrus Logic Improves Its Supply Chain Planning and Execution Capabilities Sponsor: Supply …
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An interesting article appeared in Bussinessweek.com regarding the new approach that the Chrysler Corporation is attempting with its supply base. Chrysler Chief Procurement Officer Dan Knott is attempting to undo the past few years of hardship that the economy and Chrysler has bestowed on its suppliers. Collaboration around accelerated payments and working capital management will [...]
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Today’s guest post is from Dalip Raheja, President and CEO of The Mpower Group (TMG) and a contributor to the News U Can use TMG blog.Most of us missed it. They were trying to tell us about it when we werevery young. We were not even in nursery school yet! It’s all aboutthe vowels. It’s not about Old MacDonald’s farm, his pigs or hens or any of that … it’s about E-I-E-I-O! Now what do vowels have to dowith Sourcing and Supply Chain Management you might be wondering? Well, as it turns out … everything! …
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