Interviews
What Will 2008 Bring in the Metals Markets?
Earlier today, Lisa Reisman and Stuart Burns penned a thoughtful and lengthy post over on Metal Miner offering up their predictions for the metals markets in 2008. Among the metals categories they take the…
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There was recently a two part interview on SCDigest with Ed Marien, emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin and director of its Supply Chain Logistics Management program. During it, I found some interesting quotes about the sourcing dynamic in some of his answers.
First off, he feels there is a talent and training issue [...]
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In this post I summarize the fifth installment of the CPO Agenda 2007 debate series - What are procurement’s key challenges in the next 1 years? that took place early this summer in Paris. [I think I’ll crack a bottle of Cabernet Franc in honor of our European clients.] My summaries of the previous [...]
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In this post I summarize the fourth installment of the CPO Agenda debate series - What Capabilities Do You Need To Operate In A Global Market? that took place in Milan in the Spring. My summaries of the previous debates on World Class Procurement - The British Perspective, Global Sourcing - A Scandanavian View, [...]
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Recently, in their Spring 2007 issue, CPO Agenda ran an executive debate in London with the goal of answering the question What does World-Class Procurement Look Like?. The debate included Andrew Boyd of Britvic, John Collington of the Home Office, Andy Collopy at BP, Philippe Corregelongue of EMEA/Emptoris, David Gilmour at Pilkington, Ben Jackson [...]
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I read a great opinion piece in ELP by Sven-Anders Stegare (what a cool name too), CPO of SEB Group in Sweden. His comments are laced with common sense and you can almost see the battle scars earned from years in the procurement trenches.
He describes how the attention is focused on direct materials and [...]
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I read a great opinion piece in ELP by Sven-Anders Stegare (what a cool name too), CPO of SEB Group in Sweden. His comments are laced with common sense and you can almost see the battle scars earned from years in the procurement trenches.
He describes how the attention is focused on direct materials and [...]
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7. What about language issues? Americans generally only speak English.
For India, suppliers tend to have good written English skills. Spoken English can be difficult because of different accents and because of poor telecom connections. A US buyer unfamiliar with speaking with people from India will need perhaps 5 or 10 hours of experience speaking on [...]
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7. What about language issues? Americans generally only speak English.
For India, suppliers tend to have good written English skills. Spoken English can be difficult because of different accents and because of poor telecom connections. A US buyer unfamiliar with speaking with people from India will need perhaps 5 or 10 hours of experience speaking on [...]
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Today, we welcome Carl Greppin from Transpac Access. We took some time to ask Carl questions about Low Cost Country Sourcing to get details on some of the finer points of this process. Part II of this interview will be up tomorrow.
1. There is still lots of buzz about low-cost country sourcing (LCCS). [...]
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