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When it comes to sustainability, is procurement ready to negotiate?
February 5, 2024
How can procurement negotiate beyond the lowest cost to achieve sustainability objectives?
For What It’s Worth: Tackling the supply chain digital transformation shortage, optimizing your negotiations amidst all of the chaos, and COVID four years later”
January 22, 2024
Your thoughts on the digital transformation shortage, optimizing negotiations, and COVID four years later?
Does technology by itself remove functional silos? Unraveling the o9 Solutions’ Barilla Press Release mystery
December 29, 2023
Unraveling the o9 Solutions' Barilla Press Release mystery.
What “technology musicians” are in your procurement automation orchestra pit?
December 27, 2023
Who are the technology "musicians" in your automation orchestra?
In Business Since 1982, A Who’s Who Client List In The Food and Beverage Industry, and Real-Time Market Price Coverage and Analysis – Do You Know Me?
December 6, 2023
When I started writing this blog in May 2007, one of the reasons was to provide unknown companies such as Coupa, Zycus, and others with a venue through which they could connect with a wider and more direct audience. By the way, here is the very first post about Coupa titled “Moving Procurement Practice Beyond […]
Substitute “Solar System” With “Supply Chain” . . .
December 2, 2023
The words “supply chain” suggest a sequential and orderly process, e.g., what many people think. How Supply Chains Actually Work Rather than a chain or chains, we are actually dealing with constantly evolving supply networks that, albeit somewhat synchronized, have different paths or trajectories of their own. What would happen if the planets’ orbits changed? […]
Translating Irrelevance: Why vendor “market share news” has little value in a practical sense by Jon Hansen
June 18, 2014
“Il mercato mondiale del software dedicato al procurement e al supply chain management è cresciuto del 7,3% nello scorso anno, toccando 8,9 miliardi di dollari nel 2013.” – Gartner, crescono le soluzioni IT per il procurement 18 Giugno 2014 No I haven’t been taking lessons in Spanish – on a good day I have enough […]
From Mobile Business Intelligence to Synchronized Execution: So you can take it with you after all!
January 31, 2012
“Gartner expects that 33 percent of BI functionality will be consumed via mobile devices by 2013.” from the June 29th, 2011 article “Business Intelligence and Mobile Devices Will Change Supply Chain Management” by Herman Mehling One of the first things that comes to mind when I hear the term mobile Business Intelligence or “BI” are […]
(Epilogue) Response to Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series telling . . . especially Part 5 on talent attraction and retention
August 23, 2011
Continuing relevancy is based more on a state of mind versus a state of time. Nowhere was this fact more evident than it was with the re-release of my 2007 series Dangerous Supply Chain Myths. Centered on my analysis of the ISM, CAPS and A.T. Kearney Succeeding in a Dynamic World report, the series was […]
Procurement Insights 
The start of the “real” talent war in procurement
February 15, 2024
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Why the Airbase Appointment of Forrester's Mathew Schulz is a game-changer.