Analysts/Research
In a previous entry I talked about how the utilisation of Spend Analysis software makes the rational of a vendor reduction programme less relevant. When reading the latest report from The World Economic Forum on the risks for 2008 I am convinced this logic will now start to gain more momentum.
According to the WEF [...]
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There is an economic storm brewing and its called a recession. I believe Zig Ziglar once stated that experts have predicted 36 out of the last 2 recessions. The problem is, that nobody actually knows if we are in a recession until the economy is already pulling out of it. To start, [...]
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Now it seems like there is a never ending stream of coverage on regarding “The China Price” for outsourcing the manufacturing production of various products. So, when I ran across this article in Fortune Magazine, I was not surprised by the content and story line but was happy to see supply management guru, Andrew [...]
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Although I try to refrain from discussing Iasta or the Iasta solutions in this forum (as we have an entire website for that), I was pleased to notice that when reviewing Gartner’s 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008 (as reviewed in CRM Today), we’re already there with respect to at least four of the technologies and [...]
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I do not usually recommend signing up for reading material, but am making an exception here today. I receive a newsletter from ARC Advisory, available for sign up here, which is packed so full of information that I have trouble looking at it during the work day and have to save it for a [...]
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I ran across an interesting article, which continued my recent trend of running into a great deal of new content about reverse auctions. Sort of a strange phenomenon, but true. This one was discovered on CFO Magazine and tells the story about research being done to create software which attempts to infer the [...]
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A recent white paper by Morgan Chambers, Sourcing Governance: The Difference Between Success and Failure, notes that despite the relative maturity of the Outsourcing marketplace, there still seems to be a gap between the Sourcing activity and creation of the in-house capability necessary to manage these Sourcing relationships. The reality is that you [...]
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Well, I should start off by confessing that this post has nothing to do with the recent publication titled Sourcing From China - Lessons from the Learners from the Boston Consulting Group. It’s actually about a recent article in Supply & Demand Chain Executive called Global Sourcing: Is It Really Worth It? - which [...]
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Last week, in Part I, I brought your attention to a recent publication from the Boston Consulting Group, Sourcing From China - Lessons from the Learners that contained an exhibit that described the four stages of successful Low Cost Country Sourcing:
Test the Waters
Early Engagement
Full Integration
Make the Low Cost [...]
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Flipping through my ever increasing stack of Purchasing magazines, I noticed an article titled Purchasing Compensation: How to Negotiate a Higher Salary that I missed this summer which is actually quite interesting. Especially since it started off with the most important advice for anyone asking for a raise: know your value. Do your [...]
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