For those of you still doubting about it, a new study from CAPS Research is underlining the importance of the purchasing management line for supply-management end-results. Sounds obvious but still, it reminds us that: Purchasing performance needs leadership, the purchasing function needs to a strong positionning within an organisation to be efficient. Tempe, AZ, March [...]
In partnership with APICS, the Association for Operations Management, Protiviti recently conducted a focused and extensive study of procurement contracting and related contract management practices and risks. The conclusion is that a large proportion of organizations need to improve the management of their procurement contract risks and opportunities. The report provides recommendations. The graph below [...]
I found those practices – detailed in an article published by www.metricstream.com , a company which can help you managing your suppliers closer and more efficiently – pragmatic and essential to my point of view. On the other hand, they definitely connect to Green Procurement as they support an effective supplier performance control. That’s the [...]
Sorting out 10′s of case studies, white papers and researches I’ve archived since 2001 when I joined Eutilia, I found this great and long article from Peter Henig, written in 2000 in the famous Red Herring magazine and about industry-sponsored exchanges. Many of his assumptions turned true though in opposition with the hype… . Congrats [...]
Andrew Bartels ( Forrester Research) released yesterday, 20th of Feb, a new report about the ePurchasing software market: Growth is predicted to be… rather very very low (3 to 10%) in the coming years (surprised?). I can’t tell you much more, as this report is not free to read, but here are complementary information from [...]
Top 10 US Corporate Citizens: GreenMountainCoffeeRoasters Inc. AdvancedMicroDevices Inc. NIKEInc. MotorolaInc. IntelCorp. InternationalBusinessMachinesCorp. AgilentTechnologies Inc. TimberlandCo. StarbucksCoffeeCo. GeneralMills Inc. The 100 Best Corporate Citizens list takes a systematic approach to assessing the social and environmental characteristics of a good corporate citizen. The list is drawn from approximately 1,100 publicly held U.S. companies in the Russell [...]
CAPS Research, A.T. Kearney, and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) are jointly sponsoring a research study entitled “Succeeding in a Dynamic World: Supply Management in the Decade Ahead.” The research will identify trends shaping tomorrow’s business strategies and models and how these will affect the ways that organizations develop, manage, and use supply relationships [...]
Last week I reported the release of the latest Advanced Sourcing report from Aberdeen. From my perspective, there’s nothing really new in the picture, though interesting stats about best practices, majors obstacles and ways-out. Andrew Bartolini, the author, informed me that he would be happy to answer your questions if any. Nice isn’t it? So, [...]
Zycus Redefines Spend Analysis into an Actionable and Result Oriented Process “Actionable Analytics 4.0 is a flexible tool that can be designed, within limits, to align and monitor balanced scorecard objectives. The application can quickly drill down to detail, but also functions at a higher level through the use of a dashboard (pipeline) that gives [...]
Andrew Bartolini from the Aberdeen Group just informed me about the availability of “The Advanced Sourcing and Negotiation Benchmark Report: The Art and Science of the Deal“, free for my readership to access until the end of march 2007. Here is the link to access the report. I presented the objectives of this survey in [...]
Paul Snell reveals, in his article “Maverick spends, not a major issue for buyers“, the top 3 reasons of 326 global companies surveyed by the research firm NelsonHall ( a global US Business Process Outsourcing analyst firm) ,for outsourcing indirect procurement: reducing process costs (84 per cent of companies), accelerated sourcing times (79 per cent), [...]
In a recent report (january 2007) Lora Cecere from AMR Research is analysing the impact of globalisation on Supply Chain management. Based on Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria contribution to a Supply Chain Council’s recent Executive Retreat, she pointed out that “supply chain professionals can no longer depend solely on political infrastructure as the primary [...]
Thanks to David Bush and his post no pain, no gain…not really, I’ve discovered a GREAT top 10 report issued by SupplyChainDigest: The Top 10 Supply Chain and Logistics Technologies and Strategies for 2007: “Published in 2007, this is the first annual list of the top supply chain and logistics technologies and strategies for the [...]
CSR, as you probably know, stands for Corporate Social Responsability. CSR is also simply called Corporate Responsibility. CSR, in short, is all about the behaviour of private/public sector organisations and their contribution to sustainable development (health, safety and environmental) goals. According to CIPS, ” CSR should be borne in mind when dealing with suppliers, although [...]
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