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http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/05/17/financial-services-vendor-risk-management/
BB&T Punts on Ariba, Scores Touchdown with Hiperos to Tackle Compliance Headache This case study analysis is based on commentary presented by BB&T and Hiperos at the Sourcing Interests Group (SIG) spring summit in 2013. BB&T (NYSE: BBT) is a large regional bank, predominantly active in the US southeast and Texas – over 31,000 full-time [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/05/10/conflict-minerals-compliance-checklists-templates-planning-documents/
The Spend Matters and MetalMiner team are busy wrapping up a week that featured our first live event on conflict minerals. Today, we share one of the resources given to attendees: The MetalMiner/Elm Consulting Conflict Minerals Checklist document. Organizations at any stage of developing a conflict minerals compliance strategy will find this Excel sheet useful [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/05/08/conflict-minerals-analysis-readiness-technology-and-questionable-practices/
In this analysis, Lisa Reisman summarizes the key takeaways and compliance recommendations from the Spend Matters/MetalMiner event: Conflict Minerals EDGE. How prepared are most companies to tackle conflict minerals compliance based on what you heard and saw? One point that I came away with was that many companies have greater capability than they think to [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/05/07/conflict-minerals-qa-sec-enforcement-china-scrap-and-supplier-views/
This Spend Matters PRO series is based on commentary and opinions expressed by the following industry experts at the MetalMiner/Spend Matters Conflict Minerals EDGE event: Jennifer Diggins (Nucor), Jeff Friedman (Kloeckner Metals), Lawrence Heim (The Elm Consulting Group), Rose of Sharon DeVos (Stainless Sales Corporation), Michael Pfeifer (Industrial Metallurgists LLC), Michael Loch (Motorola Solutions), Michael Littenberg [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/05/06/conflict-minerals-edge-live-blogging-compliance-technology-and-more/
Hi Spend Matters PRO members, The Spend Matters and MetalMiner teams are currently attending our Conflict Minerals EDGE event in Chicago. To get started, we’d like to offer up Thomas Kase and Jason Busch’s presentation on Conflict Minerals technology, which gives an insider glance into specific tools and templates and includes checklists, a technology decision guide, [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/04/17/the-policy-supply-chain-conflict-minerals-and-beyond-preparing-for-mandated-ethical-sourcing/
In the first brief in this research series, Economic and Policy Supply Chain: The “Non-Invisible Hand”, we covered the increasing importance for procurement organizations of looking at economic and policy issues focused on the “Non-Invisible Hand” as we termed it. As we continue our analysis, we will turn our attention to the role not only [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/04/15/beyond-bird-flu-2-0-inoculate-your-supply-base-against-supply-chain-risk/
Avian flu is not a new topic. The original bird flu strain (H5N1) that killed hundreds in the prior decade provoked a great deal of media coverage – and still lingers. There have been 11 reported deaths so far in 2013, which is actually higher than what has been reported with the recent H7N9 strain. [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/04/12/network-fees-and-innovation-are-you-considering-supplier-opinions/
The Spend Matters team has observed that in technology and supplier connectivity/network selection, the majority of procurement and AP organizations lack empathy (and total cost understanding) about the impact about their decisions on working with suppliers. In fact, many on the “buy-side” don’t even consider empathy and understanding with their supply base – they make [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/04/08/economic-and-policy-supply-chain-the-non-invisible-hand/
Adam Smith is famous for coining the phrase the “Invisible Hand” to suggest the collective transparent forces of a market that works together as a whole based on the self-interest of participating members. He only used the phrase a handful of times, but it’s a term we all associate with the famous theorist. See the [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/04/02/hicx-solutions-supplier-management-meets-master-data-part-2/
Please click here for the first installment of this series. Supplier Onboarding as You Like It Supplier onboarding and registration isn’t always as simple as it seems. Companies can take several routes based on open and closed registration processes. In this area, we were pleased to see that HICX has adopted the open funnel approach [...]
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