Supply management may finally be getting its due. Not only is the function being recognized as a strategic corporate initiative, but supply managers are also getting pay hikes.
Results of Purchasing Magazine’s 26th annual salary survey show average compensation for the supply management field rising to $83,205, a 6% boost over last year. (Read Purchasing’s synopsis [more]

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While the Bush Administration and civil rights groups debate the balance between national security and racial screening, one type of profiling that is without controversy is category segmentation. In fact, it’s encouraged by everyone — except maybe commodity suppliers in a highly competitive marketplace.
I came across a compelling framework on the Strategic Sourcing Europe blog [more]

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Last week, I used the disparities in costs of The 12 Days of Christmas to encourage Supply Excellence readers to apply e-sourcing techniques to all spend categories. The use of online sourcing methods — whether e-RFx, reverse auction, or sealed bid — has been proven to provide the competittion and market transparency required to yield [more]

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Returns from PNC Wealth Management’s 22nd annual survey of the costs of gifts in the holiday classic, “The 12 Days of Christmas,” unwrapped a 3.1% increase over last year. PNC pegs the increase on low unemployment and rising service costs. But a peek under the tree suggests that the boost was due to PNC’s heavy reliance on sole [more]

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Like a lump of coal in your stocking, Gartner VP and Research Fellow Andy Kyte portends price increases and supply constraints for 2007.
In an interview earlier this week, Kyte told European Leaders in Procurement (ELP) that “…with the price of materials such as plastic and metals increasing, it looks as though CPOs are going to [more]

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