Sourcing Innovation
Back in May, I overviewed seven critical supply strategies for succeeding in a dynamic world, as summarized in the article Succeeding in a Dynamic World that was jointly written by the ISM, CAPS Research, and A.T. Kearney after an initial foray into the data returned by a survey undertaken by the parties in an effort [...]
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As my loyal readers will know, I started the “Future of Sourcing” craze right here on this blog last August. By bringing all of the bloggers together and focussing them on one topic, I’ve managed to organize over two dozen of the leading minds in the sourcing space on one very important issue - your [...]
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In the spirit of our recent cross-blog series on The Future of Sourcing (recap I and recap II), I’m going to wrap up coverage on the 5th International Symposium on Supply Chain Management with a presentation from RSM Richter Consulting on key features and directions for supply chain software solutions. The presentation overviewed [...]
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In yesterday’s post I introduced you to Sourcing Life-cycle Management (SLM), a new dawn for aerospace, automotive, defense, medical device, and high-tech / electronic manufactures with complex direct sourcing problems. SLM is the integration of the supply chain centric business processes of sourcing, procurement, PIM, and supplier management that were always meant to be together. [...]
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Strategic Sourcing is great. Technologies that enable it greater still - since even an across-the-board 5% reduction in spend can have more of an impact on the bottom line than a 25% increase in sales. And with the right tools and techniques, the former is a lot easier to achieve. However, today’s [...]
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Pre-script: This post deals with the sustainability issue most important to me - me! As time goes on, not only do I continue to spend a significant amount of time having what seems to be the same one-sided conversation explaining what I do, what I don’t do, and why I do, and do [...]
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First of all, here are the posts to date. The Future of eSourcing - Less is More Alan Buxton The Future of Sourcing: Results-Based Process Specialization Charles Dominick Sourcing Innovation Series [...]
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Even though a few bloggers have disappeared into the woodwork, I think it’s time to start wrap up the sourcing innovation 2007 series. First of all, I’d like to thank all of this years contributors to date and summarize the posts in an easy reference table. Then I’m going to recap each one before recapping [...]
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In honor of the great work Jason’s been doing on the vendor front this week, I’ve decided to manually index many of the great vendor posts from both of our blogs to allow you to quickly and easily find independent, (mostly) objective, third-party analysis of your favorite vendors. Enjoy! [...]
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When I said calling bloggers to action was a bit like herding cats last week, I was wrong. Herding cats is easier. However, as you have noticed, a few more bloggers, and guest bloggers, have roused and more contributions have appeared. Here on sourcing innovation we’ve had guest posts from Alan Buxton of [...]
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