Spend Management
European Leaders recently picked up on a story that Dell was recently hit by a supply disruption due to a fire at one of its largest suppliers. According to the story, “The world’s second-largest PC maker said that [a] fire at LG Chem — South Korea’…
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Editors Note: This is the second part of a three-part series. Part 1 provided background and context for D&B’s new Spend Management applications. Part 2, below, analyzes two of D&B’s new products and how they stack-up in the market. And Part 3 will p…
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Who says that bloggers can’t attract the attention of CEOs? As a follow-up to a post and comment exchange with Hubwoo’s CEO, Mark Williams, JP Massin recently sat down with the leader of the European-headquartered provider. And it would appear from t…
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IACCM Americas just wound down earlier today, but I’ve gathered dozens of pages of notes from various presentations. In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing some additional dispatches from the event. For those who are not familiar with IACCM, you should…
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When I go to conferences, it’s the rare opportunity that I have to spend the full event time attending the festivities. Usually, I follow a fly-in / fly-out model based upon speaking commitments or catching specific sessions (or meetings) that I’ve s…
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There comes a time in every consultant’s life when he would love nothing more than to throw in the towel on his current practice area and try something entirely new. I’m not going there just yet — after all, we’re just starting to build Spend Matter…
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A Discussion With Pierre Mitchell
I recently had the chance to catch up with my old friend and colleague, Pierre Mitchell, on a variety of topics. The main focus of our chat was to discuss Hackett’s latest procurement capability maturity model. Th…
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It’s been an enjoyable 18 hours so far in Scottsdale and IACCM Americas 2008 event. The content in many of the presentations has been up and down, but in general, the crowd is receptive to really taking the issue of contracting — and what it means f…
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Even though it’s hard to find conclusive facts on the frequency of child labor in the developing world, there’s no doubt that its commonplace in certain industries and regions. A recent Supply Chain Digest article quotes a column from Forbes noting t…
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A Discussion With Pierre Mitchell (Part 1)
I recently had the chance to catch up with my old friend and colleague, Pierre Mitchell, on a variety of topics. The main focus of our chat was to discuss Hackett’s latest procurement capability maturity …
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