Aberdeen recently released an informative research brief entitled The Supplier Enablement Challenge that pointed out the importance of supplier enablement. They found that Best-In-Class companies that had achieved decent supplier enablement had 15% more spend under management (78% to 63%), requisition-to-order costs that were 30% less ($22 vs $32), requisition-to-order cycles that were […]
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I ran across an interesting article, which continued my recent trend of running into a great deal of new content about reverse auctions. Sort of a strange phenomenon, but true. This one was discovered on CFO Magazine and tells the story about research being done to create software which attempts to infer the […]
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A recent article in ecommercetimes points to information from Booz Allen Hamilton on carbon footprint in food processing. Their basic definition is good for understanding the reasons for designing better ways to increase energy efficiency.
“The four primary factors driving businesses’ interest in the energy-efficient supply chains are cost savings, productivity gains, regulation […]
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e-Procurement is the counterpart to e-Sourcing, starting where e-Sourcing ends and ending where e-Sourcing begins. It is the “e” implementation of the procurement cycle which is concerned with the requisitioning, receiving, and reconciliation of the received goods as opposed to the analysis, auction, and award that takes place in the sourcing cycle. It […]
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When the subject of supplier enablement for e-procurement comes up, a discussion regarding the merits of supplier networks usually isn’t far behind. Today, as companies work to drive bottom line savings from their e-procurement system investment, using a supplier network is usually the pat answer provided by consultants, analysts or recommenders with regard to supplier […]
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Boston Consulting Group, a highly respected consultancy, has released a new publication named Sourcing From China - Lessons from the Learners. It is another one of these reports that I have come across recently which is a digestible size and easily read. I recommend downloading and saving, if your organization does any offshoring […]
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Recently, there was a fine article on spend analysis which was written by Tariq Hassan, of The Buying Triangle. (Apologies, this site uses frames and I cannot link directly to the article.)
Hassan suggests that spend analytics is coming back into favor with CPOs for a number of reasons. One such reason was described […]
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Last month Purchasing ran an article on how supplier diversity can yield growth which stated that in 2006 AT&T documented that supplier diversity was a factor in generating 11 billion in revenue. 11 billion!
According to the article, diverse suppliers can act as powerful advocates for the company sourcing from them, especially since some diverse […]
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The Supply Chain Management Review recently ran a great article on Supplier-Supplier Relationships: Why They Matter, excerpted on the SCMR site, that pointed out that it’s important to know the types of supplier-supplier relationships you are likely to encounter, since this can help you improve efficiency and drive down costs.
The article notes that there are […]
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Over on Spend Matters, Jason has been busy with his 28 part series on China sourcing and supply risk. Here on the ESF home front, I have an update that is a little closer to home and based on the recent Mattel recall.
A few nights ago, my wife and I had to […]
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