Our North American category management team hosted a Top 5 Categories to Source Now webinar last week (replay here). Supply Excellence contributor Pat Furey, set the stage with a discussion of several manufacturing, GDP and consumer indices, as well as a WSJ consensus forecast of economists, that all appear to show that the economy is [...]

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Battle lines have been drawn in the fight over carbon emissions. Late last month, the US House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey Bill, which in addition to an infusion of R&D money would create a cap and trade system for carbon, giving away 70% of the available carbon credits while auctioning off the remaining 30%. [...]

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Diebold CEO Tom Swidarski just wrapped up his “Spend Management: A CEO’s View” presentation. When Tom took over the reigns as Diebold (a company with $3.2B in revenue in 2008 and celebrating their 150th year), he set an ambitious goal of cutting $100 million from costs structures by the end of 2008. But rather than [...]

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Industries asking for a piece of the economic stimulus package are frantically making their case to Congress, the President, the media and the general public. And although the package still has to go to the Senate for them to modify, the largess in the bill passed by the House of Representatives Wednesday will likely dole [...]

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Sparked by risk-management leader Hewlett-Packard’s comment that “the greatest supply risks are the day-to-day operational risks that can detract from shareholder value and performance,” Supply Excellence has been taking a deeper look at how best to gather, manage, and track key supplier profile, capabilities, and performance information.
Today, we begin showcasing companies putting Supplier Information Management [...]

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