In this short 2 page-document available at ISM and written by S. Gordon (Emptoris) you be reminded the 6 major benefits coming from supplier evaluation: Increase performance visibility, Uncover and remove hidden waste and cost drivers in the supply chain, Leverage the supply base, Align customer and supplier business practices, Mitigate risk, Improve supplier performance, [...]
Potential initiatives to improve the way you buy Printing are written on the graph below. Please click on the above-thumbnail to read it.
Potential appropriate initiatives to improve the way you buy MRO are unveiled on the graph below. Please click on the above-thumbnail to read it.
23 new opportunities, this time in the logistic and distribution field, on the graph below. Click the graph to read.
16 ideas to improve the way you buy chemicals, on the exhibit attached. Click the exhibit to read it (easier).
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) just released the outcome of their new survey (2007) about outsourcing, based on US/UK client mainly . Straightforward, clear, worth reading I feel. If the tag-line is nothing surprising at all (we all recognise that collaboration is more powerful than simple ordering), the dimensions of the analysis executed by Pat McArdle and his [...]
I’ve listed 40 opportunities on the graph below. Click to read the graph
22 Opportunities listed on the graph below. Click the graph to enlarge and read
To me, Spend Analysis is a critical area to get under control and where a good-size company should invest in. I’ve mentioned it several times and lately in a post I wrote on Michael Lamoureux request. Early this month, Purchasing.com issued a nice and 3-part series “The ABC of Spend Analysis”: Acquire the data skills [...]
18 Opportunities to improve the way you buy your fax/copier-machines are listed on the graph below. Click to read the graph
I’m initiating a “Strategic Sourcing Opportunity” Series based on the Magic triangle I presented some time ago in the post “Creating Value with Strategic Sourcing“. Purpose is to point out the best well-know opportunities one could think about when rolling down a Strategic Sourcing methodology for 12 specific and common spend-categories: stationary, fax machines, photocopiers, [...]
Some time ago, I’ve published a template to help you out positioning a SG (Sourcing Group) into the Strategic Sourcing’s 4-quadrant Matrix (I call it as well the CSSB matrix as ‘Commodity, Standard, Strategic, Bottleneck), based on the famous Porter’s 5-forces model. This template has the benefit to be easy to understand and to use. [...]
Based on my experience – of course! – but also on an excellent paper written in 2000 by Tim Duffie’s (UPS) about the difference between sourcing AND strategic sourcing and following the recent post of David Bush ‘Strategic Sourcing Success Factors‘, you will find on this post what I consider as the top 10 Strategic [...]
Solectron Corporation, founded in 1977, is a leading global provider of electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and integrated supply chain solutions. Solectron serves the world’s most innovative companies in industries that rely on high-tech electronics. Solectron’s 50,000 employees have a hand in designing, making and servicing products that people around the world rely on every day: PC’s, [...]
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