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http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/03/11/lost-sourcing-savings-survey-data-suggests-a-crisis-part-3/
Please click here to read the first and second installments in this series. If we were to point fingers at where technology can help companies drive implemented savings, these areas would rise to the top: demand aggregation, collaboration (internal and supplier), strategic sourcing (with an emphasis beyond driving to negotiated outcomes alone), analytics and architecture/information [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/03/06/lost-sourcing-savings-survey-data-suggests-a-crisis-part-2/
Click here to read the first installment in this series. If we were to point our fingers at the highest-level drivers around why companies fail to implement as close to 100% of savings as possible from strategic sourcing and supplier management initiatives, the following five elements would immediately jump to mind: No CFO (or CEO, [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2013/03/04/lost-sourcing-savings-survey-data-suggests-a-crisis-part-1/
Last week, I participated in an ISM webinar highlighting how (and why) procurement organizations fail to implement sourcing savings. During the event, Spend Matters asked the audience (approximately 500 practitioners) a number of poll questions: Does your organization have a formal program to ensure that identified savings through sourcing and supplier management programs become implemented [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2012/11/20/offsets-local-content-and-supplier-information-management-part-2/
We wrote in Part 1 about offsets in the defence industry, and the commonality they have with wider issues around “local content” – using procurement and supply chain activities to show support for building capability and capacity in local economies and supply chains, often as a lever to win contracts, concessions (e.g. mining) or similar. [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2012/11/14/offsets-local-content-and-supplier-information-management/
I’ve written – but at no great length – in the past about issues around ”local content” and how this appeared to be a growing area of interest for procurement leaders. One discussion that stimulated my interest a year or so back was a presentation from a very large mining firm, who explained that they [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2012/09/26/cpo-corner-focus-focus-focus-learning-from-sainsburys/
CPO Corner is where we feature advice, insight and ideas (generally not technology related), aimed squarely at practitioner leaders in the procurement and supply chain community. Here’s the first of a regular series from Peter Smith, Editor of Spend Matters UK/Europe and an ex-CPO himself in three large organisations. One business that has gained from [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2012/09/18/apple-the-global-market-monster-supply-chain-voodoo/
“You remind me of a man. (What man?) Oh, the man with the power.” …Atomic Fireballs With around 50 inventory turns (fifty turns!) and a practically magical product touch, Apple has long been an admired supply chain leader, locking in the Number 1 spot on Gartner’s Top 25 list for many years now. Not only [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2012/08/14/cortera-looking-at-supply-chain-risk-through-the-ar-lens/
Today, August 14, Cortera (formerly eCredit, but quite different these days) opens the doors to their Purchase Insights offering. Cortera has built critical mass among their subscribers and are now able to offer a new risk product drawing on $1.6 trillion in annual B2B spend data assembled from their 5,000+ corporate members reporting on their [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2012/07/16/exploring-e2open-digging-into-the-next-likely-public-procurementsupply-chain-vendor-part-3/
Click here for Part 1 and Part 2 in this series. This review is based both on our examination of their tool and conversations with a client. If it wasn’t clear from the previous sections, this is a deep tool, and while examining this solution, we’re glad at least one of us has an engineering [...]
http://www.spendmatterspro.com/pro/2012/07/09/exploring-e2open-digging-into-the-next-likely-public-procurementsupply-chain-vendor-part-2/
Please click here for Part 1 of this analysis. Network delivery E2open provides its collaborative execution capability through a cloud delivery model that enables business-to-business integration, procurement, forecasting, planning, execution, supply and logistics planning, order and inventory management. As mentioned in the first part of this series, even though E2open provides integration behind the scenes, [...]
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