Tomorrow I’m moderating the October LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call. This month’s topic is ‘Nuisance Spend’ - that low volume, high SKU count spend that can be the most difficult to bring under management.
As always, we’ll be encouraging participation - questions, insights and discussion - from the audience. These calls are [...]

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Today in the US, it’s National Drink Coffee Day. Now I don’t know if that’s an official holiday of any kind or just another internet meme, similar to Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19th). But the ‘holiday’ reminded me of a recent discussion thread on Ariba Exchange about sourcing coffee, which dug into strategy [...]

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Through the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group on LinkedIn, we had an open conference call for members to come together and collaborate on KPIs. It provided a great opportunity for people to ask and answer questions with their peers about this extremely important topic.
The replay is now available for anyone to listen to (it’s the [...]

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A week ago the Huffington Post featured a slide-show look at Trader Joe’s - The Semi-Secret World of Trader Joe’s: The Tasty Bits. As a long time TJ’s shopper and arguably decent cook (well, if you ask my 6 year old son anyway - he swears by my grilled pizzas), I like getting a glimpse [...]

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Tomorrow, I am moderating the monthly member call for the LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group. This month’s topic is KPIs. So please join us if you have KPI questions or insights, or if you’d just like to hear your peers engaged in a lively discussion of the subject.
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