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Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Just in ETime Newsletter Highlights Procurement Insights

April 2, 2010

I must admit that I was pleased to discover that the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) highlighted Procurement Insights as a Web Site of Interest in their April issue of Just in ETime newsletter. About ISM: Founded in 1915, the Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) is the largest supply management association in the world as […]

Branding Tales: The Great ISM Toaster Giveaway! and Ariba’s Tired Spentguise

February 17, 2010

I began a recent post on the Procurement Insights Blog with the statement that “the correlation between dynamic vision and technological ingenuity with brand development and acceptance in the emerging world of social media has yet to be really established.” Or citing my December 30th interview with The Marketing Doctor, Dr. John Tantillo, and his […]

Interactive Intelligence in Real-Time: The ADR Academy’s New Adaptive Learning Program

February 9, 2010

“Companies are scrambling to keep the skills of their buyers and supply managers up to the task of responding to wildly fluctuating costs and availability of key supplies. They need high quality training courses that are easily and instantly available,” said ADR North America CEO Bill Michels, C.P.M. “The ADR Academy fills that need with […]

Procurement Insights From Around The World

January 6, 2009

With our syndicated network continuing to grow, an increasing number of both new and existing publications from around the world are picking-up our posts. Two of the most recent examples include the Swedish-based Efficient Purchasing Magazine (December 2008 Issue), and closer to home the U.S.-based Commonwealth of Virginia eVA Connections (December 2008 Issue). Reaching 300,000 […]

Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 3) Revisited

June 23, 2008

As I have repeatedly stated with previous anniversary posts, time is ultimately the greatest sifter of fact from fiction, reality from opinion, clarity from confusion. However for the majority of purchasing professionals, the soundness of identifying Multiple Supply Chain Networks as one of the seven critical supply strategies is generally dismissed in a sea of […]

Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 2) Revisited

June 19, 2008

In the year since this segment was first published, I have written a number of follow-up articles that have focused on testing the metal if you will of my position that the majority of supplier development and management programs are inherently flawed. What is the old adage about the unexamined life? Everything, including what I […]

Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (Part 1) Revisited

June 17, 2008

As with any well researched article that is offered up for public review (and scrutiny), one can never really anticipate the ultimate reaction and therefore impact a particular piece will have on its readers. In fact to be truly effective and meaningful, the predalictions of a mass audience while understood, have to become secondary to […]

New Seminars for Supply Chain Professionals

February 4, 2008

To complement our critically acclaimed conference series The Changing Face of Procurement, we are pleased to introduce the following new seminars: Dangerous Supply Chain Myths (2-Day Seminar) Awareness of the continuing high-rate of ERP/IT-based e-procurement initiative failures to deliver expected results is now entering mainstream consciousness. While vendors and those associated with the recommendation and […]

SAP Procurement for Public Sector (White Paper)

January 18, 2008

Who Can Benefit from this Paper? This white paper is an essential resource tool for public sector organizations that are already a client of SAP or, are in the process of investigating SAP as a possible platform for their procurement practice. Utilizing an advanced research methodology, the primary objective of this paper is to provide decision-makers with […]