Supply and Demand Chain Exec has a fantastic article on eSourcing process integration, which is written by Andy Sealock of Pace Harmon. If you can get past the incredibly unfriendly user obstruction for printing and viewing the article on 7 different pages, you will be able to really get a ton of great information. […]
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This article in supply management is a classic misconception that just by adding together more of the same does not always equal lower unit costs. As highlighted by Michael Lamoureux there are a number of issues that inhibit collaboration like culture, time and timing.
I think the SM article gives us a great opportunity to […]
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The ISM Project Management for Supply Professionals Satellite Seminar Program Handbook, despite being limited mostly to presentation slides and a few article reprints, had a few great slides and a few great tips for supply management project management that are doubly true for e-Sourcing project management. Two slides in particular that I would like […]
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According to an article in the Outsourcing Journal back in March titled Suppliers Face a Changed World As First Generation Outsourcing Deals Expire, 43% of annualized outsourced contract value that is up for renewal over the next two years face a medium risk of getting restructured. Traditionally onshored deals will be offshored, mega-deals (that […]
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At long last, Iasta has finally released our newest version of SmartSource. I generally do not discuss happenings in Iasta-land on E-Sourcing Forum but this is significant from my perspective because we have been so excited about unleashing this monster, and, because it changes the e-Sourcing landscape even more with our expanding breadth across […]
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This is the last full weekend of the summer, and, thus, the last summer weekend series on e-Sourcing Forum. This summer we discussed, in detail, 12 topics in process and technology, supply management, and innovation that we hope you can use to help you design better sourcing methodologies. Today we are going to […]
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This is the last full weekend of the summer, and, thus, the last summer weekend series on e-Sourcing Forum. This summer we discussed, in detail, 12 topics in process and technology, management, and innovation that we hope you can use to help you design better sourcing methodologies. Today we are going to review […]
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This is the last full weekend of the summer, and, thus, the last summer weekend series on eSourcing Forum. This summer we discussed, in detail, twelve topics in process and technology, supply management, and innovation that we hope you can use to aid you in your design of better sourcing methodologies. Today we […]
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On Friday we reviewed our series to date and indicated the importance of purchasing to new product development (NPD) and innovation and yesterday we reviewed some recent research from Aberdeen Group that qualified and quantified the importance of procurement to NPD and innovation and the benefits it produced. We then introduced the […]
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In the past year, Aberdeen Group has released a number of significant research reports on new product development and innovation, starting with the Product Innovation Agenda Benchmark (September, 2005), continuing with New Product Development: Profiting from Innovation (December, 2005), and, more recently, Procurement in New Product Development: Ensuring Profit from Innovation (March, 2006) […]
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