Aberdeen Group’s second benchmark on spending analysis, “The Spend Intelligence Benchmark Report, Turning Data into Action“, has just hit the wires. (I oversaw Aberdeen’s first benchmark on this subject back in 2003. I also authored Aberdeen’s spend analysis best practices study in 2004.) I have asked Rod True, president and CEO of Supply Excellence’s newest [...]

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The accouncement this week that Secretary General Kofi Anan has personally stepped in to rectify the United Nation’s long-running procurement debacle led me to question what corporate supply management executives might be able to learn from the U.N.’s recovery plan.
Anan’s $4.8 million overhaul plan would add new procurement staff (including a new CPO), fund supply [...]

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Spend Matters superhero Jason Busch was back on the streets last night, defending free trade and supply management innovation. This time the caped crusader set his laser focus on the latest Forrester Research report, which found that 41% of enterprises will rely on their ERP vendors for supply chain solutions. Jason rightfully disarmed this finding [...]

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Just weeks after AMR turned up the volume on its On Demand/Software as a Service (SaaS) research, Aberdeen Group has countered with its third in a series of benchmarks on the subject. The On Demand Supply Management Benchmark Report avoids retrodding estimates of time-to-deployment and total cost of ownership (TCO) and gets right to what matters: performance [...]

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The series of recent Supply Excellence posts on costing have elicited significant debate, including comments from a former colleague and costing expert, Frank Cirimele. Frank has over twenty years of experience in the international supply chain domain and is a recognized expert on global trade and the practical application of effective Global Logistics Strategies. He [...]

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