A little bit of background credentials are in order. Supply Management is my passion. For more than 15 years, I have benchmarked, assessed, advised, and reported on sourcing, procurement, supply chain, and supply management practices and technologies.

My career has taken me from an analyst of electronic component market trends to an assessor of federal procurement and technology policy to senior editor of supply chain strategy and technology at Purchasing Magazine to senior executive and supply management research practice lead at the Aberdeen Group.

During my tenure, I’ve had the opportunity to benchmark and examine procurement and supply management practices at thousands of companies. I’ve also been fortunate enough to interview and network with some of the pioneers of the supply management discipline, including Tom Stallkamp, former CPO and President at Chrysler Corporation; the late Gene Richter, former CPO at IBM and Hewlett-Packard; and Dave Nelson, former CPO at Honda, John Deere, and Delphi Automotive. (I’ve also documented the rise of the next wave of supply management visionaries, including many of “Dave’s Disciples,” such as Aaron Dent, VP of Supply Chain at Delta Airlines; Garry Berryman, CPO at Sara Lee; and Shelley Stewart, VP of Supply Chain at Tyco.)

Considering my proximity to these and other procurement executives, I have jokingly referred to myself as the Howard Cosell of Supply Management: “I never played the game, but I have learned from the greatest athletes to ever take the arena.”

In full disclosure, I recently retired from the analyst world and joined a leading supply management solution provider in an effort to take a more hands on role in helping enterprises drive improvements in strategic sourcing, contract and compliance management, and supplier management. That said, commentary in this blog will be vendor agnostic and deliver the straight facts and best practices you can use to drive continuous improvement in your supply management operations.

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