We’ve had some insightful comments on my previous What’s next for Supply Excellence post. Other bloggers, including Charles Dominick and Jon Hansen, have taken up the subject on their blogs as well. A few of the key take-aways and my notes in parenthesis:

Blogs are not dead - although one reader strongly disagrees - and can [...]

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Nearly 4 years ago, Tim Minahan launched Supply Excellence with this post, which spoke of addressing key issues that spend management pros were facing on best practices, metrics, strategy, and technology.
Now that all of those issues are resolved, we’re asking “what’s next?”
Ok, that’s not entirely correct. Those questions will never be completely answered since [...]

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We have had an issue with our hosting server. The good news is, it’s been diagnosed and should be fixed shortly. The bad news is, we had to revert to a backup of the database and lost the posts and comments from January 15th through yesterday.
I apologize for any disruption, inconvenience or loss of content. [...]

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The Sourcing Interest Group’s (SIG) Global Sourcing Summit is taking place this week in Baltimore. For those of you who haven’t seen the agenda, it’s loaded with a mix of industry leaders and global movers-and-shakers (including Newt Gingrich, Tata Consultancy President Surya Kant, and Unisys CEO J. Edward Coleman). And as we would all expect, [...]

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