In the recent webinar, Correcting Your Spend Vision with Visibility, Mickey North Rizza, research director with AMR Research, discussed implementing spend visibility tools to bring more spend under management, gaining competitive advantage through analytics.
During the webinar, we received three really great questions from our audience, and wanted to share Mickey’s responses covering maverick spend, data [...]

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When I say “casino”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
Probably for most of you, it’s money. Actually more like MONEY. Money being spent, won and lost at breakneck speed. And although you’ve possibly had trips to Vegas where you were up against The House (and ask a gambler, and they’ll always tell you [...]

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Toyota consistently ranks among the most respected global corporations and is well-known for their manufacturing prowess and strong supplier ties. That’s exactly why this week’s news about the accelerator problems for 4 million vehicles came as a shock to so many of us. The impact of this episode will be long-term, far-reaching, [...]

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The turbulent times in the trucking industry continued through the remainder of 2009, with additional carriers going out of business and the YRC restructuring plans continuing to unfold. It seems that we are no longer surprised to hear of trucking companies going out of business after seeing 3000 trucking companies closing their doors in 2008 [...]

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In December, we posted some of the responses to a question that was getting a lot of attention in the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn:
“What is the major reason as to why Procurement Managers are reluctant to provide feedback or feedback is minimal after a bid process?”
If you missed Part 1, you can [...]

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