Tapping Into … Managing Suppliers
Collaborative sourcing and supplier relationship management software may both have a place in your organization, but it’s not the same place. They are two distinct approaches to managing suppliers. In order to reap the benefits of both, mind the gap  know when to keep them apart and how to bring […]
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Dr. Lamoureux of Sourcing Innovation recently pointed out the Frasers/PMACNewsLetter to me and this month it has a great article on how to Use labor productivity to drive down purchase costs.
The article points out that suppliers often use wage increases to justify small nudges in prices each year since it seems reasonable, but wages […]
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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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I found the recent article in Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies of SupplyChainBrain.com entitled Looking Backward: Sony Ericsson Takes on Challenge of Reverse Logistics to be very interesting. The author, Robert J. Bowman, describes how Sony Corporation and Ericsson AB sought a competitive edge in the mobile-phone market by revamping the handling of […]
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Today we are happy to bring you some very thoughtful comments from Kevin Brooks at Apexon, a leading vendor in this section of supply management. Kevin’s background is originally with Ariba and now heads up marketing for Apexon in San Jose.
Anyone with even a passing interest in supply chain issues will tell you that […]
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Friday we introduced you to supplier performance management and yesterday we discussed some of the challenges in developing and implementing a supplier management program. Today we will discuss some best practices and steps to success.
Many of the eight best practices that we discuss below grow out of the C5 (connect, […]
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Yesterday we introduced you to supplier performance management, a methodology for reducing supply risk, driving continuous cost reductions and performance improvements, and accelerating savings. Proactive supplier performance management programs can improve service levels by 10 to 30%, improve invoice accuracy by 10 to 20%, and reduce inventory levels while increasing on-shelf availability. […]
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Last weekend we discussed supply chain risk and how important it is in today’s efficiency based supply chains where a single disruption can cost a corporation six, seven, or even eight figures and when more than 80% of supply managers reported in a recent Aberdeen study on Supply Risk Management that their companies […]
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I thought Michael Lamoureux did an excellent job in the past week with his analysis of supply chain risk. Supply risk is an area I’ve written about for quite some time, and I believe that it is just starting to get the respect it deserves. Thanks to supply risk evangelists like Jim Lawton at Open […]
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Friday we defined supply chain risk, discussed the reasons why supply chain risk is increasing, and indicated how prevalent it is in today’s enterprises. Yesterday we discussed the different types of supply chain risk that an organization needs to prepare for, the need for resiliency in its daily operations, and the classic strategies […]
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