Tomorrow, I am moderating the monthly member call for the LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group. This month’s topic is KPIs. So please join us if you have KPI questions or insights, or if you’d just like to hear your peers engaged in a lively discussion of the subject.
The details:
Tuesday, August 31st
9am Pacific Daylight Time
No [...]
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The glory days of the Private Equity (PE) world are certainly not over but they are changing. Firms today are struggling to attract new investments and to manage the portfolio companies they own.
The days of the quick buy and sell are long gone. The PE firms today are faced with attempting to figure out how [...]
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When I asked the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group members to suggest topics for upcoming calls, there were a lot of requests pertaining to indirect spend. So, this Friday, the group’s July member conference call will be an open discussion on indirect categories (marketing and consulting will definitely be covered – if you have [...]
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I recently asked my fellow Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group members on LinkedIn for topics they’d like to cover on our monthly conference calls this summer. Lots of great ideas, but the one that caught my eye as an opportunity to have an immediate impact was the suggestion by a Supply Chain Analyst at a [...]
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The ISM NMI (Non-Manufacturing Index) came in at 53.8, which is down from 55.4 in May. The Business Activity Index was 58.1, down from 61.1 in May, and New Orders was 54.4, down from 57.1 in May. The employment index came in at 49.7, slightly below the growth threshold of 50. Here are some bullet points about [...]
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I caught up with Procurement Leaders‘ Mark Perera at Ariba LIVE in Amsterdam earlier this month. A year after our first 2 interviews (Part 1 and 2) on working capital management, Mark gave us an update on managing cash trends, priorities and success stories.
All of the interviews with attendees and speakers (about 40 videos) from Ariba [...]
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I had the good fortune of catching up with Tim Cummins, President of IACCM, at Ariba LIVE in Amsterdam recently. Tim shared a few minutes of his time to talk about contracts and the role they’re playing in buyer/supplier collaboration.
We’ll be posting more interviews with attendees and speakers from Amsterdam on the Ariba YouTube channel. So, [...]
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The Reverse Auction celebrates its 15th birthday this year (I know, they grow up so fast don’t they). At Ariba LIVE in Orlando recently, Harikrishnan Shankaranarayanan of Aegis Limited shared how their approach and results have evolved over the 10 years the company has been doing reverse auctions.
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Following hot on heels of a great April group member call on Commodities (replay available here), our Strategic Sourcing & Procurement discussion this month will be led by Murillo Xavier. Murillo is a Supply Chain Project Manager at Nestle Waters North America as well as the author of ‘Strategic Sourcing – Suppliers Are From Mars, [...]
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Lead Category Manager Mike Petro explains how non-price factors indicate a shift from buyer’s to seller’s market conditions.
This segment is a clip from the LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member conference call on commodities. You can stream the full replay here (embedded player top center). Request to join the group here.
Justin Fogarty is Managing [...]
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