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The High Cost of Low Costs (Women Pursuing Careers in Supply Chain) by Kelly Barner

April 23, 2013

I have recently become aware of a growing interest in women pursuing careers in supply chain. There are new recognitions for women in leadership roles, and groups being started to discuss the unique issues faced by women in supply chain. Other groups are founded to support the interest of employers to find qualified females to […]

Procurement in Your App Store by Kelly Barner

March 20, 2013

As procurement professionals make increasing use of social media and online collaboration, the associations we belong to are doing the same. Search for procurement in your Apple or Android App Store and you’ll come up with more results than you might expect. Some of the best uses of the app format are companions to the […]

Cutting Costs is Too Easy by Kelly Barner

February 25, 2013

In addition to reading a number of supply management blogs and publications, I find it helpful to read sales articles. Sales professionals deal with many of the same challenges procurement professionals do. They also seem to have a better grasp of how we need to learn to collaborate and network in order to create mutual […]

Procurement in My Stocking by Kelly Barner

January 31, 2013

If you were good last year, you may have been lucky enough to find a treat in your stocking on Christmas morning. I must have been very VERY good last year. Not only did I get some of my favorite treats in my stocking, but one of those treats came with it the basis for […]

The Prognosticators Series: 2013 Predictions by Kelly Barner

January 4, 2013

Editor’s Note: As is often the case when the hands of time tick relentlessly forward into another new year, we take this opportunity to look ahead to what the next 12 months might hold in store for us both personally as well as for the purchasing industry as a whole. In this the first installment […]

How High is Your Procurement ‘EI’? by Kelly Barner

November 12, 2012

One of the best things about being active in social networking is that people ask you questions you don’t know the answer to. I never mind admitting to not having an answer, but like to follow that response with, “let me see what I can find out…” I was recently asked what I knew about […]

Fuel Category Management at Delta Air Lines (Revisited) by Kelly Barner

September 5, 2012

Back in May, I wrote a guest post for Procurement Insights about Delta Air Lines’ decision to buy an oil refinery as part of their fuel category management strategy. It is a good example of an ‘out of the box’ or differentiating solution to a spend management challenge that plagues the entire airline industry: the […]

Is Procurement Trying Too Hard? by Kelly Barner

August 22, 2012

One of the interesting stories to come out of the 2012 London Olympics is that some of the badminton teams were disqualified for trying to LOSE matches. That’s not exactly what you expect from the most competitive athletes in the world in any sport. They weren’t trying to lose because they wanted to go home, […]

Are public sector employees on the endangered species list?

July 24, 2012

In today’s post by Buyers Meeting Point’s Kelly Barner (Austerity Measures: Coming to a Company Near You?), she talks about how “many governments in Europe are considering austerity measures,” and “reducing national debt by spending less, particularly on public service.” Based on a recent article which indicated that since 2009 approximately 600,000 state and local […]

Austerity Measures: Coming to a Company Near You? by Kelly Barner

July 24, 2012

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, […]