Today, I’d like to welcome a guest blogger to Supply Excellence. Doug Smock is the co-author of the top-selling supply management book, Straight to the Bottom Line, and heads up his own online community for sharing supply strategy, GlobalCPO.com. I encourage you to sign up for Doug’s free newsletter, How Smart People Buy.
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AMR’s Supply Chain Executive Conference last month gave me the opportunity to reconnect with my old pal, Julie Murphree, founder and editorial advisor at Supply and Demand Chain Executive. While AMR’s theme of environmentally and socially sustainable supply management practices renewed my focus on these issues, Julie had been embracing the “do better by doing good” mantra [more]

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There must be something in the mental ether. On Friday, I penned a post examining how supply management could add value through alternative payment management practices. I was set to post it today (under the title, “Brother Should You Spare a Dime?”) when I came across a rant from my friend and Spend Matters master Jason [more]

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I want to correct any misconceptions that may have been raised by my previous posts linking supply management performance to pay scales.
True, the anectodal stories and empirical data I referenced show a direct correlation between supply management salaries and performance. What doesn’t show up in this data: Top-performers not only recruit the best talent and pay the highest salaries, [more]

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If higher pay drives better supply management performance, what constitutes higher pay? Well, the answer is it depends on a lot of factors, including title, location, education, and gender.
Purchasing Magazine and the Institute for Supply Management both offer annual salary surveys that provide a baseline into what supply management organizations are getting paid and the factors [more]

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