Technology
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies recently ran an article that asked if supplier portals were so great, then what went wrong? that had a really good history of supplier “portals” and some insights into the reasons why they may have failed. However, I have to question whether or not their statement that the [...]
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A recent Industry Week article on Implementing Supply Chain Management Solutions made a good point — the biggest factor in the collapse of supply chain management (SCM) implementations is … change — the type of change inflicted on an organization with little regard for how greatly it will impact the people and processes that serve [...]
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A recent article in Information Week on The Road to Making BI Available to Everyone noted that, on average, only 25% of workers use BI. Considering that we’re in the information age, this is rather pathetic. Why is this?According to the article, there are five major reasons for this: The tools themselves [...]
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Last month, Jason Busch gave the sourcing world an introduction to EcoVadis in his two part series (Part I and Part II) over on Spend Matters. In his posts, he noted that EcoVadis was a European (and, in particular, a French) provider of a sustainability solution for evaluating and monitoring suppliers whose primary focus is [...]
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Today I’d like to thank Vinnie Mirchandani of Deal Architect and New Florence. New Renaissance. for allowing me to re-post his thoughts on Healthcare - Three Way Matching as part of Healthcare Week.At the HiMSS conference a couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of having an industry veteran - Dave Watson - as [...]
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Manufacturing & Logistics IT recently ran an article on The 10 Fallacies of Logistics Productivity Management that noted that productivity management often represents the lowest hanging fruit for companies interested in reducing supply chain costs. It also noted that the failure to implement advanced productivity management systems may be related to a number of [...]
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A recent article in Strategy+Business which started off by noting that today’s Chief Information Officer must enable the organization to meet its strategic goals and to envision goals that were never before possible caught my eye. The article, which quickly quoted Michael Giledman who said that you (need to) spend a lot of time [...]
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The McKinsey Quarterly recently published an article on eight business technology trends to watch that was not only quite good, but a good summary of the trends that you should be implementing, appropriately, in your supply chain. In this second part of this two part series, we are going to review the remaining trends [...]
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The McKinsey Quarterly recently published an article on eight business technology trends to watch that was not only quite good, but a good summary of the trends that you should be implementing, appropriately, in your supply chain. In this two part series, we are going to review each of the trends and give you [...]
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One of the subjects that is important to discuss from time to time on a sourcing blog is the subject of services sourcing. I’ve discussed the subject of Strategic Service Management a few times on this blog, along with the service management capabilities of Servigistics and Provade, but I’ve never dived into the subject [...]
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