Learning / Research
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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Thanks in part to strong regional growth the Asia-based Global Supply Chain Council (which used to be known as the China Supply Chain Council) is booming. According to a recent press release, the five-year old group has risen to “become the largest a…
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While cruising about on the excellent blog Strategic Sourcing | Europe, I came across this elegantly simple downloadable template to use when thinking about category prioritization for strategic sourcing initiatives. In the words of the author, “Nothing fancy here, only pragmatic factors about markets, suppliers, products and ‘buying’, sorted in a .xls table to review [...]
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