Straight to the Bottomline co-author Doug Smock’s recent post on product costing has drawn a lot of attention and comments. I have elected to reprint those of Jessica Dunlop, head of ITT Industries’ e-sourcing program. As noted in previous posts, reverse auctions are a key tool in ITT’s sourcing tookit. Here Jessica offers an alternative view on how reverse auctions are […]
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Thanks again to Doug Smock for igniting the discussion around product costing and the convergence of design and supply.ÂÂ
I agree with Doug: Harley-Davidson was indeed a supply management innnovator before its time. As a senior editor at Purchasing magazine in the pre-Internet boom, I had the opportunity to do a cover story on Harley’s advanced […]
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Today, I’d like to welcome back Supply Excellence guest blogger, Doug Smock. Co-author of the supply management best-seller, Straight to the Bottom Line, Smock will continue his findings on new strategies and systems for product should- and future costing.
In a recent post on Spend Matters, Jason Busch briefly reviewed a CAD-based costing technology from a […]
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