The 24/7 news cycle is absolutely blowing up with coverage of the swine flu. And frankly, if some of the worst case scenarios play out (as they have historically in several other flu pandemics, although those were before modern vaccines and containment plans), the massive volume of coverage may be warranted.
But before panicking, it’s worth [...]

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I attended SupplyExcellence contributor Drew Hofler’s session today on Strategies for Optimizing Working Capital. Drew went over the business case for why companies should consider working capital management strategies and presented an interesting graph, showing the relationship between DPOs and a sliding scale model of the discount rate. The replay is available now (register required).
Drew [...]

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DonorsChoose.org founder Charles Best didn’t set out to create a revolutionary philanthropic organization. He was a social studies teacher in New York who lamented the fact that teachers and their students often lacked the resources they needed. But then he decided to do something about it.
In his keynote this morning, Charles walked through the history [...]

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Yesterday’s presentation by Heinz VP of Procurement Christopher Stockwell (replay & blog post) on why it’s a good time to target savings on indirect spend set the stage for this morning’s breakout session - Indirect Spend: What to Source Now. In the session, Diana Brown, a Director in Ariba’s Spend Management Services group, walked through [...]

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In his presentation today, Christopher Stockwell, Vice President of Procurement at Heinz, discussed how his team has expanded their reach and impact from direct spend to indirect categories. Anyone who’s been involved with bringing indirect spend under management has likely been met with some resistance, to say the least. But Christopher feels very strongly that [...]

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