Next Level Purchasing’s Annual Purchasing Survey is now available. Sourcing and Procurement professionals who complete the survey will receive Strategic Sourcing Questions & Answers, a document that answers questions about the most common issues related to implementing a strategic sourcing initiative, from how to build a cross-functional sourcing team to what some of the pitfalls […]
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Perusing the CFO Research Services site, I came across the Corporate Performance Management: How Committed Leaders Drive Results Report, consisting of conclusions papers from the CFO executive conference held earlier this year in New York, New York.
The second mini-paper in the report was Aligning the finance function to strategy execution based on a presentation […]
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Tim Minahan of Supply Excellence offered us a great post on How to Assess Your Net Worth back in June IF you were a purchaser in the US, leaving Canadian purchasers out in the cold. Fear not, as reported in this month’s Frasers/PMAC NewsLetter, the 2006 Purchasing b2b/PMAC Salary survey was recently released and here’s […]
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One of at the presentations that I really wanted to see at the Fourth Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management was Jon Hansen’s presentation on The Change Management Myth: Why e-Procurement Initiatives Fail. Unfortunately, as happens from time to time, the author could not make it. However, Jon Hansen, of e-Procure Solutions Corp., did […]
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It’s Saturday (my day off from sourcing), and since I don’t have any Flaming Laptops or Weasels to report on, I’m going to tell you about the best place to do international business in Canada, and why. If you want the short answer, it is Halifax, Nova Scotia, but since I know some of you […]
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Another great presentation at the Fourth Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management was Head2Head Purchasing’s talk on Driving Competitive Advantage thru an Effective Talent Supply Chain.
The presentation by Wayne Burgess & Paul Dodd, Managing Partners, pointed out that the human element makes talent procurement distinct and volatile. According to them:
Attraction is Critical
The […]
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Today Emptoris finally announces what we’ve all known for a long time (see David’s post on eSourcing Forum back in February), that it has acquired MindFlow Technologies, a leader in inbound supply chain planning and sourcing optimization. I’m going to refrain from commenting at this time*, but say that I’m pleased that a North American company […]
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This month, Wired released it’s annual list of The Wired 40, a list of trendsetting companies that Wired believes is leading the way. This list included software companies in the Supply Chain / Customer Relationship Management space.
In particular,
(10) SAP, for rolling its own code and crafting slick modules for everything from analytics to […]
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Last week, in No Prix Fix Here: A Consolidator’s Menu Part 1 and Part II , Jason Busch of Spend Matters, despite his general skepticism of technology acquisitions, outlined a number of opportunities in the spend management sector that might just be “too good to pass up”. As always, most of these were prime specimens. […]
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