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Conference Call on Procurement & Finance this Thursday

September 28th, 2010 · No Comments · best practices, financial value chain, skills rectruitment and development, spend analysis

This Thursday, I’m moderating the September LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call. This month, we’re talking about Finance, specifically the relationship between finance and procurement. Helping us navigate this touchy subject huge opportunity for collaboration, efficiency gains and increase cash flow will be:

Charles Dominick, CEO of NextLevelPurchasing, who will share what they’re seeing [...]

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The New Polymath: Interview w/ Vinnie Mirchandani (Part 2)

May 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · best practices, skills rectruitment and development, supply risk

Paul Melchiorre, Ariba’s VP of Strategy had a chance to sit down with Vinnie Mirchandani, former Gartner analyst, and author of The New Polymath, being published by Wiley in June, to discuss how the book’s contents could apply to the sourcing community. Part 1 of the interview is here.

Paul Melchiorre (PM): What New Polymath characteristics [...]

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The New Polymath: Interview w/ Vinnie Mirchandani (Part 1)

May 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · best practices, skills rectruitment and development, supply risk

Paul Melchiorre, Ariba’s VP of Strategy had a chance to sit down with Vinnie Mirchandani, former Gartner analyst, and author of The New Polymath, being published by Wiley in June, to discuss how the book’s contents could apply to the sourcing community.
Paul Melchiorre (PM): To start with. what is a New Polymath?
Vinnie Mirchandani (VM): Paul, [...]

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What is the role of a “Buyer”?

September 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments · best practices, skills rectruitment and development, sourcing

Last week in the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn, a member asked for the Group’s input on the role of a buyer. Specifically, she was interested in how much their responsibilities “blend into other areas, such as customer service, accounting in the way of returns, etc.”
So far, there are some insightful answers, with [...]

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Summer School: NLP offers a “Masters” certification in global purchasing

July 1st, 2009 · 6 Comments · LCCS and trade, design and development, skills rectruitment and development

Next Level Purchasing officially unveiled their new SPSM2 purchasing certification today (after several weeks of Charles Dominick teasing twitter followers about an upcoming major announcement). Designed as a follow up to SPSM Certification, the new coursework focuses on “processes that are becoming more significant in the purchasing field - international procurement, advanced negotiation, and managerial [...]

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