Today’s guest post is from Bernard Gunther of Lexington Analytics. He can be reached at bgunther <at> lexingtonanalytics <dot> com.During the course of my work, I am always surprised at the large number of procurement organizations who still perform their analyses by dumping AP data into Excel or Access and developing their own reports. An […]
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Today’s guest post is from Bernard Gunther of Lexington Analytics. He can be reached at bgunther <at> lexingtonanalytics <dot> com.Over the last 15 years, I have had hundreds of discussions about commodity structures with CPOs. Invariably, I am asked, “What is the right commodity structure to use?” Or, “Use the UNSPSC structure. It’s an […]
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Today’s guest post is from Bernard Gunther of Lexington Analytics. He can be reached at bgunther <at> lexingtonanalytics <dot> com.Every year, I look forward to going to conferences with the hope that I will get a chance to see a great deal of innovation and learn something new. Most years, I am largely […]
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Today’s guest post is by Brian Daniels (brian <dot> daniels <at> cvmsolutions <dot> com), VP of Strategic Marketing at CVM Solutions, a sourcing and procurement content and application solution provider to mid-market and large enterprise companies, including half of the Fortune 500.In 2007, North American companies began to wake up to the dangers of supply […]
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the doctor is pleased to welcome Dick Locke of Global Procurement Group back to Sourcing Innovation.My guest post on the issue of keeping talent mentioned a ten-question quiz on global supply management skills. After the post, there was a surge of people who took the quiz. I have to say the results were disappointing. I […]
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Today’s guest post is courtesy of Andy Monin, President and CEO of VendorMate and fellow blogger over on Vendor Compliance.I’ll join Michael Lamoureux et al. in opining that of all industries, healthcare has the greatest opportunity to benefit from e-Procurement. In my opinion, Healthcare Materials Management professionals have the toughest job in all of […]
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Today I’d like to thank Vinnie Mirchandani of Deal Architect and New Florence. New Renaissance. for allowing me to re-post his thoughts on Healthcare - Three Way Matching as part of Healthcare Week.At the HiMSS conference a couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of having an industry veteran - Dave Watson - as […]
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Join me in welcoming another guest author to Sourcing Innovation with his post questioning where GPOs will fit in the Health Care industry of tomorrow! Where will GPOs fit as the Health Care industry starts leveraginge-procurement and the Internet to the level other industries have? Beforeanswering this, let’s start by quickly summarize the value […]
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Today’s post is from a contributor, who’s a buyer and not a cutter, who wishes to remain anonymous.The Canadian medical and healthcare landscape is a patchwork of publicly funded services (which, for the most part, operate as a legal monopoly) and privately funded services. With some exceptions, the traditional, physician-based, services are generally provided […]
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Today I’d like to thank Dave Stephens of Coupa for letting me re-post his thoughts on efficiency vs. cost in health-care providers. Coupa has been working with a number of healthcare organizations lately, and so we thought we’d share some of the e-procurement challenges that we see as unique to that industry.We’ll start with […]
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