Best Practices
A recent article in the Supply Chain Management Review outlined A Plan for Building a New Supply Chain because, according to the author, supply chains need to be redesigned from the ground up to remain competitive. Now, I wholeheartedly agree that the average supply chain lacks efficiency and needs to be improved - [...]
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I was very pleased to see a recent article in the Supply Chain Management Review that said it will be necessary for procurement professionals to develop new ways to define and identify needs inside their organizations, to assess the capabilities of the organizations’ internal resources to meet those needs, and to match them against all [...]
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The House Energy and Commerce sub-committee on Oversight and Investigations had some of the nation’s top food company CEOs on the witness stand this week. Congress’ look at the record breaking recall of 143,000,000 lbs of beef, piled on top of the tainted vegetable stories of the last year, serves to highlight another example of [...]
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The McKinsey Quarterly recently published an article on eight business technology trends to watch that was not only quite good, but a good summary of the trends that you should be implementing, appropriately, in your supply chain. In this second part of this two part series, we are going to review the remaining trends [...]
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Mehdi Hassan, blogging for South Asia Biz, recently highlighted a Forrester report on the growing dissatisfaction with IT outsourcing in India. As Hassan points out, firms are struggling with the falling dollar, unrealistic expectations, scalability, possible tax code changes and believe it or not, scarcity of top IT talent.
I couldn’t agree more with the assertion [...]
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The McKinsey Quarterly recently published an article on eight business technology trends to watch that was not only quite good, but a good summary of the trends that you should be implementing, appropriately, in your supply chain. In this two part series, we are going to review each of the trends and give you [...]
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The dip in soybean production caused by farmers gravitating to ethanol production got you down? Well, the 2/25 issue of Business Week (sorry it’s print only, but a PDF version of the article is here) highlights another potential shortage you might see in 2008: Television ad time.
The shortage is caused by the need for [...]
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I hope you enjoyed this special mini-series on Talent and associated issues this week. With the talent crunch about to hit in a big way, we could all be losers in the talent war if we don’t start taking steps to make sure we have the talent we need in place when we need [...]
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Yes folks! the doctor just keeps on giving! In addition to the specific questions on Spend Analysis, e-RFX and e-Auctions, Decision Optimization, Contract Management, e-Procurement, and e-Payment functionality that you should ask your prospective vendor before you even think about making any commitments, as x-emplified during the 12 Days of X-emplification, there are [...]
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With the run up in product recalls and food concerns last year, product quality and supply risk management have captured the attention of the C-suite and the general public. Supply managers have an opportunity to leverage this crisis to boost their brand in the organization and help their companies turn the strategic balancing of cost, [...]
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