Browsing All posts tagged under »mro«

Another Here We Go Again: This Time SDI Overgeneralizes Tail Spend Managenment And Automation

April 24, 2025

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What are the reasons ProcureTech initiative failures will continue to fail well into the next decade?

If Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder, How Do I See Focal Point, SDI, And LevelPath?

March 10, 2025

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Which one of these three ProcureTech suppliers can best serve the beauty industry?

AI Compares 1998 RAM To An Updated 2025 Version

March 2, 2025

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How do you choose the right ProcureTech solution provider in 2025?

Procurement’s “Real” Acres Of Diamonds In 2025

February 28, 2025

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What impact do Commodity Characteristics have on ProcureTech's success?

How MRO Principles Are Crossing Industries?

July 5, 2024

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Why is MRO important?

A Direct and Indirect Procurement Decoupling? My Response To A Great Post By Jason Busch.

October 29, 2023

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Direct and indirect procurement have never looked more different. And I expect a decoupling of the two areas in 2024 . . . I see a decoupling of direct and indirect on the horizon based on the evidence at hand — at least in the near term. – Jason Busch, LinkedIn Post (October 27th, 2023) […]

From the telegraph to wearable devices, supply chain collaboration in the modern era has come a long way by Jon Hansen

September 29, 2014

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It was the late 90’s, and I was heading up a project that would enable the Department of National Defence to acquire Indirect MRO spare parts online from suppliers throughout North America. The challenge went beyond the mere sourcing process, as the DND required that parts be delivered within 24 hours to one of their 40 bases across […]

Buyers need not apply by Jon Hansen

March 24, 2014

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Post Update: Of course, everyone knows by now that the person I am teaming up with to write the book is @BuyersMeetPoint Kelly Barner. Look for it to be released later this year. In the coming weeks, I will be making an official announcement sharing with you the news that I will be partnering with […]

Hochfelder’s bold MRO prediction? by Jon Hansen

February 6, 2014

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Okay I know that coming on the heels of my previous post in which shall we say, I questioned the veracity of a research paper by The Hackett Group on supplier consolidation, this next post may cause some to suggest an absence of bran in my diet.  Or maybe that the winter has been far […]

Hackett Group research article on supplier consolidation surprising . . . for all the wrong reasons by Jon Hansen

February 6, 2014

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“Consolidating suppliers within specific supply markets is a proven strategy to concentrate buying power and reduce purchase prices. The activity can be taken further, though, especially within non-production (indirect) spending areas . . . Consolidating suppliers within specific supply markets is a proven strategy to concentrate buying power and reduce purchase prices. The specific business […]