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Guest Post: Just Imagine—a Flawless Procurement Merger Integration! (Author: Glenda Leatherman)
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
The Procurement Insights Blog is now Available in Chinese
March 14, 2008
Over the past six months the Procurement insights Blog has been picked-up in various forms such as simulposts, URL Links, association web sites as well as cross-pollination exchanges with other blogs. So needless to say, we are happy that the PI Blog is now available in Chinese. With a combined (and growing) syndicated network that reaches an […]
Posted in: News & Updates
Further to the Barry Bonds Post . . .
March 14, 2008
The response to the Barry Bonds post through both the PI Blog as well as e-mail has been tremendous. Be sure to check out the comments that have been posted (with more to come), as they are indicative of the prevalent attitudes amongst stakeholders in terms of the Government of Canada’s Shared Services strategy. One […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
Shared Services Simplified or How Barry Bonds’ Bat Weight Explained GoC Thinking
March 12, 2008
I was recently asked to provide a contextual point of reference that would assist the uninitiated public in understanding the reasons why the GoC’s Shared Services program has become such a contentious issue. The Answer was Baseball! Rather than getting into a complicated dissertation of the differences between an agent-based model versus an equation-based model […]
Posted in: Public Sector Procurement
Procurement Insights 
March 27, 2008
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