Last month, we kicked off the 2011 Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member conference calls with a lively discussion of Dashboards. What’s on them?, How did you decide what to measure?, How do you share them?, Where are they heading in the future?, and a host of other related topics made for a great [...]

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Let’s get 2011 off to a great start with our January Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member call on Dashboards. The topic has come up often in the group. So it’s time to get our collective heads together and share Dashboard challenges, best practices, metrics and anything else that helps us quantify performance, success [...]

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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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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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