Perfect timing for The Hackett Group’s survey on inflation and its impact on procurement and supply chains. This week the topic of inflation is sure to be front and center on the businesss section of any newspaper as US Fed Chairman Bernanke goes before Congress for his semiannual report. With inflation (or at least the [...]

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Last week on the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call, we discussed the relationship and HUGE opportunity for procurement and finance to work together. That internal collaboration can be the 1st step towards increased liquidity that doesn’t come at the expense of supply chain health. Once the procurement/finance working capital management goals are established, [...]

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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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I had the good fortune to interview Andy Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine, on the current state of procurement, executive attitudes about technology and the cloud, and his ‘crystal ball’ predictions for 5-10 years out (Podcast available here). It was a great opportunity to turn the tables - the interviewer becomes [...]

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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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