Today’s economic updates are full of sour news – we hear about faltering stability in the Euro Zone caused by high debt to GDP ratios and high rates of unemployment in Greece, Spain and Italy. North America is dealing with their own economic contraction: both the U.S. and Canada face increasing unemployment, slow job creation, […]
“There’s a false dichotomy between cost and safety. Are we willing and able to account for the many costs of not having a quality operation: lack of cooperation, poor leadership, waste, and incidents and accidents? If we really and truly account for them, then safety can pay for itself. Getting it wrong is more expensive […]
While we all know it is important to stay on top of supply management blogs and publications, there is something to be said for taking in general media content as well. You just never know where your next idea will come from. I recently read an article that provides a broad perspective on the options […]
“The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.” – Simon Cowell (The X Factor, American Idol) The goal of the sourcing process is to award at least one contract – a ‘winner’ you might say. In […]
I will start my contributions to Procurement Insights by laying the truth right out in the open: I am terrible at math. But that confession is just the beginning. In college I took advanced music theory to avoid calculus, and I got my MBA by learning just enough about finance and accounting to get through […]
I am pleased to welcome Buyers Meeting Points’ Kelly Barner as a regular contributing columnist to the Procurement Insights Blog. Kelly recently received the well deserved honor of being a 2012 Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘Pro to Know’ for her (and partner Cindy Allen-Murphy’s) incredible work in both informing and empowering procurement professionals the […]
On the 28th of March I will have an opportunity to talk with ADR International’s Bill Michel about his organization recently being acquired by the Institute for Supply Management or ISM. For those of you who have followed both this blog and the PI Window on Business Show on Blog Talk Radio, you know that […]
Last week’s commentary surrounding the post in the Strategic Sourcer Blog regarding Spend Matters Jason Busch’s condescending dismissal of WhyAbe while touting Ariba within the context of free e-Sourcing solution viability has caused quite a stir. In fact I received an e-mail over the weekend that asked about the decline of the old guard and […]
We have just announced the New 2011 Fall Schedule for the PI Window on Blog Talk Radio, which includes two new shows that will connect directly with my readers from the Procurement Insights Blog. Here is a copy of the official PI Window Fall Schedule Post: The New 2011 Fall Schedule for the PI Window […]
As one might reasonably conclude, my February 8th, 2011 Procurement Insights post titled “According to study conducted over three decades buyers warrant little consideration in terms of value to the organization,” was somewhat incendiary . . . although few actually disagreed outright with its observations. In essence, we all know something is broken but do […]
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