Archive for the 'SupplyWatch' Category

Open Discussion with Murillo Xavier (author of ‘Suppliers are from Mars, Customers are from Venus’)

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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Buyer’s or Supplier’s Market? Non-price factors as indicators

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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Supplier Risk: Shift from financial to operational

Category Manager Bob Zieger discusses the shift in supplier risk focus away from financial and towards operational.

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 Editor [...]

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Q2 SupplyWatch Issue is posted

As many of you know, the Category Managers who contribute to Supply Excellence also create a quarterly report called SupplyWatch. The Q2 issue is posted and includes detailed category breakdowns for…

Metals
Plastics, Rubber & Raw Materials
Transportation
Electronics, Electrical & IT Hardware
Paper & Packaging
Services & Capital Goods, Construction & Engineering

This quarter’s feature article is on Working Capital [...]

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Details for Friday’s Commodities Discussion

I recently posted about the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member call on commodities that’ll be conducted this Friday, but wanted to provide a couple updates for those who’d like to listen or participate. Below are the details, format and experts we have lined up.
First, the 1-hour call is this Friday, April 30th at [...]

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Reverse Auction Strategies for Metals

The fifth and final category in the recent Top 5 Categories to Source Now webinar was metal stampings (full replay here). With commodity prices rising, any strategy that alleviates some cost pressure in metals will be greeted with open arms.
So, what were Category Manager Tom Arbogast’s recommendations for reverse auction strategies for metals?

The full [...]

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Commodity Prices: Open discussion with your peers & experts

Spring has sprung. The markets, manufacturing and perhaps even … employment may be emerging from hibernation. And while we’re all happy to see the economy awakening from a brutal recession (please don’t hit the snooze button), it will mean some changes as we shift from buyer’s market conditions. Indeed, we’re already seeing commodity prices rising, [...]

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Sourcing Commercial Print in today’s market

Another category identified for cost savings in last week’s Top 5 Categories to Source Now webinar was commercial print (full webinar replay here). With marketing typically driving decisions on commercial print, it’s a category many companies have had trouble bringing under management of the procurement team. However if approached properly, commercial print provides great opportunities [...]

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Top 5 Categories to Source Now webinar – Thursday April 1st

Supply Watch report subscribers likely know about this (and have hopefully registered already), but the Category Management team is holding one of their Top 5 Categories to Source Now webinars tomorrow. The details:
Thursday April 1st at 11am Eastern Time (3:00 GMT)
Register here.
On the agenda tomorrow are:

Mike Petro, Lead Category Manager, North America
Loriann Andersen, Category Manager, [...]

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Supply Risks during the Economic Rebound

While there are early signs that economic growth is returning to many parts of the world, it’s important to not put Supply Risk Management initiatives on the shelf.
A recent World Economic Forum report, “Global Risk Report 2010″ highlights the very real risks that all organizations face every day.
While the risks are many and range from [...]

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