We interrupt coverage of the Instititue for Supply Management (ISM) Conference to bring you a special update on the Supply Management vs. Spend Management bout.

Just off the bus from the Spend Management Jamboree in Las Vegas, my sharp-witted commrade Jason Busch has already countered my initial diatribe on the subject in a new post on his blog, which is not coincidentally entitled Spend Matters. (Further evidence of his wit.)

My friend is obviously well schooled in the rhetorical arts, beginning his rebuttal not by addresing the issue at hand but by trying to discredit his adversary by criticizing the technical merits of my blog distribution. An apt criticism, maybe, but irrelevant to the discussion. (Jay Severin would be proud of the redirection. Ditto for Rush Limbaugh.)

Jason’s initial volley attempted to demonstrate the importance of Spend Management by claiming it is a term “…now widely used by hundreds of organizations, including dozens of vendors and scores of users.” This may be true. Other software vendors have indeed co-opted the spend management moniker, but more likely as a way to draft on the large marketing budget of the firm that created the term. And, I have indeed met a handful of users that are using the Spend Management term. (Although, when pressed, these users have an awfully difficult time giving a coherent definition of Spend Management.) I can’t help but think that some of these users have taken up the Spend Management torch at lest in part to put some dazzle on the fact that they bought a requisitioning and catalog management system.

More importantly, Jason’s initial argument fails to denote scale. (Possibly by intention.) It is an indisputable fact that Supply Management is a discipline practiced by a far larger number of enterprises (and solution and service providers for that matter) around the globe than those touting the Spend Management term.

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