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Do you practice “Business @ The Speed of Thought?” Does your enterprise have a “Digital Nervous System?” If not, why?
April 5, 2008
What does "Business @ The Speed of Thought" really mean?
Posted in: Commentary
Guest Post: Just Imagine—a Flawless Procurement Merger Integration! (Author: Glenda Leatherman)
March 27, 2008
Picture yourself as a procurement professional in a regulated industry (e.g., telecommunications). Your company is one of three major players in this industry that are about to merge. Your assignment—should you choose to accept it—is to bring the three procurement organizations together into one functioning organization within months of Merger Day 1. With thought and […]
Posted in: Guest Posting
The Supply Chain Bloggers Council: Self-Governance through Collaboration and Cooperation
March 26, 2008
Supply Chain Bloggers Council – An Introduction As a result of the continuing high rate of e-procurement initiative failures (which is somewhere between 70% and 85%), as well as the recognition of the important role supply chain practice plays in the health of an organization, purchasing professionals want more “substance” and less “sizzle” in terms […]
Posted in: SCB Council
Measuring Buyer and Seller Performace (A PI Q and A)
March 26, 2008
Member Question: What methods are available to measure purchasing performance for both buyers and sellers? My Response: The challenges associated with quantifying (re measuring) performance extend beyond the mechanisms for capturing the data to include its timely application relative to ongoing real-world decision making. Specifically, is the current methodology capable of incorporating centrally established acquisition […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends, Professional Development
Why Six Sigma Initiatives Fail (A PI Q and A)
March 24, 2008
Member Question: What’s the #1 reason Six Sigma initiatives fail? (Maybe Six Sigma needs to be applied to Six Sigma . . . ?) My Response: At a Value Network Summit in 2007 Glenda Turner (a Supply Chain Integrator with Boeing) made the following statement; “Now that I know the value networks methodology, I would […]
Posted in: Procurement Trends, Professional Development
Popular SpeedQuest™ Service Now Available to PI Blog Readers
March 19, 2008
Have you ever had a specific question relating to supply chain practice including vendor engagement, technology assessment, vendor market performance or even public sector procurement policy in which you needed an answer in a short period of time? Are you presently in the midst of completing an accreditation assignment, studying for an exam or have […]
Posted in: Link To Our Sponsors, Professional Development
Optimization Modeling and the Modern Supply Chain (A PI Q and A) by Jon Hansen
March 18, 2008
Editor’s Update: Interesting that an article in 2013 talking about “integrating social and enterprise process” is thought to be covering new ground. I am of course talking about today’s Forbes post by Rawn Shah titled “SAP Realizes Enterprise Social Processes.” Back in 2008 I wrote an article on my government funded research in the late 90s titled “Optimization Modeling and […]
Posted in: Commentary, Procurement Trends
Procurement Insights 
April 6, 2008
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