Supply Excellence — Category Chatter: Podcasts with the Pros

Category Chatter: Podcasts with the Pros

June 20th, 2008 · by Justin Fogarty · No Comments · LCCS and trade, Services Procurement, best practices, enviro/social sustainability, oil/energy, outsourcing, sourcing, supply management, supply market dynamics, supply risk

Jason Busch of SpendMatters recently hosted a number of podcasts with our Category and Commodity Managers (many of whom will be familiar names to regular Supply Excellence readers). The Category Chatter podcast series dives deep, sometimes very deep into the market trends, pitfalls and opportunities in each of these areas:

Low-Cost Country Sourcing - Jason and David Morgenstern dig into the evolving role of China and where LCCS efforts are heading next.
Outsourcing - Justin Falgione highlights the trends he’s seeing and new markets that are opening up.
Supply Risk Management - Kris Colby briefs Jason on how companies can better own their brand by managing risks to the supply chain.
Advanced Sourcing Strategies - Latane Conant discusses how companies can move past ‘low hanging fruit’ to expand their sourcing programs and extend savings.
Impacts of Recession on the Metals Industry - How do you deal with soaring metal prices during a weak economy? Ask Mike Petro.
Global Sourcing with a Weak Dollar - No doubt the anemic US$ impacts sourcing strategies. So Pat Furey and Jason discuss what can be done to blunt the impact.
Top Sourcing Trends of 2008 - Jason and Pat break down some of the big trends they’ve seen in their recent work … and make some predictions about where things are heading.
Trucking Industry - Rachel Rutkoski lays out some strategies for coping with changing conditions in truckload and LTL shipping.

I’ll be combing through these podcasts in the coming weeks for pearls of wisdom, which I’ll post here. However, if any of these topics hits close to home, I highly recommend giving them a listen (note to anti-iPod people: you can stream these and listen on your computer). Jason’s insightful questions coupled with the thorough, first hand knowledge each provide some great food for thought.

Justin Fogarty is Managing Editor of Supply Excellence. Any feedback or questions about the blog can be directed to Justin at jfogarty[at]ariba.com.

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