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Replace The Words “This Shirt” With “My Supply Chain”
December 7, 2023
What is the right answer, 2, 4, or 6? 30
In Business Since 1982, A Who’s Who Client List In The Food and Beverage Industry, and Real-Time Market Price Coverage and Analysis – Do You Know Me?
December 6, 2023
When I started writing this blog in May 2007, one of the reasons was to provide unknown companies such as Coupa, Zycus, and others with a venue through which they could connect with a wider and more direct audience. By the way, here is the very first post about Coupa titled “Moving Procurement Practice Beyond […]
How Did Bollinger Make The Transition To Manufacturing EV Commercial Trucks?
December 5, 2023
“The B4 & B5 were created to address problems we saw in commercial trucking & last mile transport. Built from the ground up to be the solution to those issues, tackling sustainability, fleet transition & ultimately making the change to an EV fleet as seamless & efficient as possible.” – Bollinger (November 28th, 2023) This […]
A Red Wagon, 2 Cent Glass Bottles, And The Evolution of Coca-Cola’s Circular Economy
December 5, 2023
As a reminiscent aside, in the 1960s, I remember my friends and I taking a little red wagon around the neighborhood collecting glass bottles to return to the store at 2 cents apiece. we bought a lot of our candy this way while being part of an early circular economy 😉 – My Life At […]
Heineken Speaks And Consumers Should Listen
December 3, 2023
Click this Link To Watch the Above Video Before I share my take on the above video, I want to provide some context. In the following excerpt from my article “How Painful Are the Hidden Costs of an ESG Strategy?” I wrote the following: “I am not writing this article to suggest we put the […]
Substitute “Solar System” With “Supply Chain” . . .
December 2, 2023
The words “supply chain” suggest a sequential and orderly process, e.g., what many people think. How Supply Chains Actually Work Rather than a chain or chains, we are actually dealing with constantly evolving supply networks that, albeit somewhat synchronized, have different paths or trajectories of their own. What would happen if the planets’ orbits changed? […]
5 Questions All Procurement Professionals Must Answer To Succeed In 2024
December 1, 2023
📢 Calling all procurement and supply chain professionals: YOUR VOICE MATTERS! For the next issue of our magazine, which will be out by the first half of December, we drafted some questions for Jon Hansen, Strategic Advisor from Procurement Insights. Jon thought those were “universal questions all professionals should ask themselves“, so we decided to propose them to you! […]
Frayed Wires: Is The Consumer Market Unplugging From The EV Industry?
November 30, 2023
“The lithium-ion battery, one of the primary components of an electric vehicle, requires various minerals, including cobalt. However, mining these minerals comes at an ethical, moral, and environmental cost.” Iain Campbell McKenna, Silent Victims: The Moral Cost of Electric Cars (April 12th, 2023) https://bit.ly/3pcqW5f “The stream of used cars heading to West African ports is only expected […]
Procurement Insights 
For Practitioners Only – How Have You Used Your Data To Improve Your Procurement Outcomes?
December 7, 2023
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is an excerpt from my response to a LinkedIn post that was championing the importance of data. Does anyone in this discussion stream believe that eating right, getting regular exercise, and at least 8 hours of sleep AREN’T good for you? I went through the list of the 100 people who reacted […]