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- “Procure” for a Worthy Cause: A call to action! 0
- Countering Commodity Increases - While Still Letting the Little Guys Eat Their Lobster 0
- Outsourcing Supply Doesn’t Outsource Risk 0
- Credit Crisis Collaboration: The Best Cash Flow Alternative 0
- “Greening” the US Ports 0
- Failing Profits or Profitably Failing?: Supply Chain Risk in the Credit Freeze 1
- Sustainability: One Stock That’s Rising 1
- Wal-Mart: The “Gold Standard” in Immigration Compliance 1
- Cut Travel Costs by 75% (and other Tales from the Road) 0
- Bailout: Reverse Auctions & True Market Price (aka Strategic Sourcing to the Rescue) 0
- Travel Spend Tightens Further in ‘09 1
- Risky Business in India? 0
- Bank Credit Market Freeze: Are your suppliers being left in the cold? 2
- Spend Management 3.0 and Beyond… 2
- Rock-Tenn Rocks their Spend Management 0
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): How Companies Can Melt 1
- Hurricane Ike’s Impact on Transportation & Logistics 0
- Merck’s Indirect Spend Success Story 0
- Procurement Poll Results 0
- Supplier Performance Management: Keeping Score 0
- Telecommuting leads to Outsourcing? 0
- Airbus Adjusts to Weather the Storm 0
- Tyco takes on a Purchasing “Sacred Cow” 0
- Calculating Transportation Costs in Central & Eastern Europe 1
- Regulators vs Profitability: How can Buyers help? 0
- Steel Industry Trends in 2009 (Part #3): Steel Futures 0
- Category Chatter: Sourcing “Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients” from China 2
- Steel Industry Trends in 2009 (Part #2): Vertical Integration 1
- LinkedIn Groups: New Discussion Features (Finally) Facilitate Communication 0
- Steel Industry Trends in 2009 (Part #1): Industry Consolidation 2
- Who will win Gold in the Purch-lympics? 0
- On Demand: What Software Companies Don’t Want You to Know 4
- International Purchasing Office: Open for business…but now what? 0
- Tata Motors: Leveraging their Suppliers for Innovation 1
- Category Chatter: Collaboration, Tata Motors, Pharma & Indirect 1
- Global Category Management: Go it alone? Or get help? 1
- What if your Transportation Network goes down? 1
- PPG’s Procurement Success Story 0
- Conflict in Georgia: What does it mean for Supply Chains & Markets? 0
- Sole Source Events: How to Keep them ‘Competitive’ 2
- Currency Exchange Impacts on Central & Eastern Europe 1
- Take Control of Fuel Surcharges 0
- Hedging Your Bets: Currency Fluctuations & the Supply Chain 1
- Inflation Antidote: Be the Low Cost Customer 0
- PPG’s Procurement Visionary Shares the Wealth…of Knowledge 1
- Strategies for Coping with Current Steel Prices 1
- Green Business: “Do as I say, not as I do” 1
- Supplier Site Visits Part #3: Post Analysis 0
- Dear Commodity Buyers, Don’t give up! 2
- Central & Eastern Europe: Finding the “Sweet Spot” 1
- Supplier Site Visits Part #2: Going Onsite 0
- Steel Industry: Preparing for the future? Or just raking in $? 2
- Higher Education: Coping with costs through Spend Management 0
- Make vs Buy: The age old dilemma 0
- Supplier Site Visits Part #1: Do your Prework 3
- LCCS: Focus on Who, What, Where and How 0
- Hold your Clydesdales: InBev & Anheuser-Busch “synergies” aren’t just layoffs 2
- Supplier Performance Management: How to start, measure & deliver 3
- Top 5 Categories to Source Now: #1 IT 0
- Consortium Buying Best Practices 0
- Steel Pulse: What’s the mood among metal suppliers? 0
- Top 5 Categories to Source Now: #2 Temporary Labor 2
- If water is the ‘next oil’…your Water Co better shape up 3
- Can Procurement keep hospitals stocked & profitable? 0
- Dynamic Supply Networks: What You Need to Know 0
- Building Category Credibility 0
- Top 5 Categories to Source Now: #3 Transportation 3
- Supply Networks: Get Dynamic or Die 2
- Change Management is key to successful software upgrades 0
- Spend Management: Time for Alternative Medicine 5
- Supply Risks to Defuse 4th of July Celebrations 0
- Making the Case for Spend Management 1
- Top 5 Categories to Source Now: #4 Travel Management 3
- WSJ Pushes Spend Management as a Recession Remedy 4
- Mid-Market: Treading (procurement) water 0
- Top 5 Categories to Source Now: #5 Direct Materials 5
- Dynamic Pricing: Even parking meters are unpredictable 0
- Speculating on Oil Regulation 0
- Category Chatter: Podcasts with the Pros 0
- Starbucks’ Venti Sized Sustainability Program 1
- Live from LIVE: Telefonica Shows Consensus Can be Efficient 1
- Live from LIVE: Sonoco’s SPM Advice 0
- Don’t Wait for the FDA 0
- e-Sourcing is A-LIVE and Well in Europe 2
- Sustainability: You’re (Still) Missing the Point 5
- Live from LIVE: Addiction is the key to adoption 1
- Live from LIVE: Looking past commodities 0
- Live from LIVE: SaaS vs IT 1
- Live from LIVE: CPOs engage in Risky Business 2
- Live from LIVE: Bonjour from Brussels 1
- Dow Price Hike: A lesson for buyers 0
- Open Season (Part Two): Best Practices for Event Management Spend 0
- Green Sourcing RFx Template: How to avoid “Greenwashing” 4
- Open Season (Part One): It’s Time to Negotiate Best Value Events 3
- Mid-market vs Enterprise Spend Management: How do they differ? 3
- HRO: Do the promises and $ add up? 0
- Change Management: Program Design is Key 0
- The End of an Era in Detroit 2
- 7 Ways to Boost Your Salary 0
- Coping with Steel Surcharges (aka Price Hikes) 4
- Sustainability: Throw Out Everything You Know 3
- On Demand: Forget About TCO. Think Innovation. 2
- Offsetting Oil Prices: What can you do 1
- Live from LIVE: Where is China headed? 0
- Live from LIVE: Cultural Divide 0
- Live from LIVE: Finding and keeping good people 0
- Live from LIVE: Lessons from Private Equity 0
- Live from LIVE: Suppliers are not the enemy 0
- Live from LIVE: Bad News about the Global Economy 0
- Live from LIVE: Good New about the Global Economy! 0
- Live from Ariba LIVE in Las Vegas 0
- Paper, Plastic or BYOB (bring-your-own-bag)? 0
- Chrysler’s Supply Plan: Back the Future 0
- Who Owns (Outsourced) Medical Records? 0
- Tip of the Iceberg: Transportation, Steel & Raw Materials 0
- Fortune 500 Strategies for Globalization 0
- Spend Management Town Hall: Shifting Global Trade 0
- Do Outsourcing Savings = Sales Losses? 0
- Global Sourcing: 10 Tips for LCCS Strategy Success 1
- LTL Transport: Soft retail numbers provide opportunity 1
- Spend Management Town Hall: Controlling Services Spend 0
- Steel Price Surge: Part 2 1
- Spend Management Town Hall: Hedging Against the Gloomy Economy 0
- 5 Steps to Tighten Your Company’s (Money) Belt 0
- What’s Really Behind the Steel Price Surge? 4
- Contract Negotiations: When YES is not enough 0
- DoD: Asleep at the Wheel 0
- Supply Risk: The (Dinner)Table Stakes Just Got Higher 2
- Sometimes Cost Can Go to (nearly) Zero 0
- Credit Crunch: Is it a Risk to your Supply Chain? 0
- Virgin Atlantic vs BA Biofuels Spat Misses the Point 0
- FOX’s Category Manager: Horton Hears a Profit 0
- Automotive Supply Chain Mess: Is the Worst Over? 2
- Spend Management Priorities: What’s Your Plan? 0
- Decision 2008: Is it Time for Spend Management? 2
- Commodity price crash? Not so fast 1
- The EU’s REACH Regulations: More mud in the water 0
- Saving a Truckload of $ on Transport 0
- We’re in the Same Business 0
- Sustainable Supply: How to Get Started 0
- Supply Management Talent Crunch: A Near-Term Solution 5
- Green Sourcing: It’s not just (tie-dyed) window dressing 0
- Southwest Airlines: Another Product Safety Problem… 0
- Industry at Risk: My Kingdom for an Axle 1
- CPOs on the Rise 0
- China: Is the low-cost still worth it? 4
- Food Safety: Better to do it yourself 0
- The Challenge of Retaining Top Talent Abroad 0
- Shortages Aren’t Just for Raw Materials 0
- Auto In-Sourcing: De Ja Vu All Over Again 2
- Re-Sourcing: Back in Vogue 0
- Baby Steps Toward Safer Toys 0
- Sharing the Virtual Microphone 1
- Postcards from Europe: Supply Crunch Knows No Borders 0
- Welcome Aboard the Sustainability Bandwagon 5
- IACCM Releases Annual Most Negotiated Terms List with Record Input 3
- An Ounce of Prevention… 1
- Supply Chain Finance Part III – Creating an Action Plan 0
- Supply Chain Finance Part II – Using Technology to Your Advantage 0
- Supply Chain Finance – Room to Improve 1
- U.S. Looking More Like Global Sourcing Hotspot 0
- Forget the Oil Crunch. Biofuels Feed Global Inflation Fears. 1
- Supply Management: Engine for the New World Car 0
- Marketing Spend Control: Tips from Both Sides of the Fence 0
- Chrysler Rolls Out Proven Formula for Purchasing Turnaround 0
- Supply Management Success Strategies for 2008 1
- Supply Excellence: Best Contributions of 2007 0
- China Makes Good on its Green Promise 1
- Personal Spend Management 1
- Supplier Diversity: It’s Time to Get Started 1
- Note to Supply Managers: Turn Volatility in Your Favor 0
- Inflationary Christmas 0
- Are You Taking a Gamble on China Quality? 0
- Still More Reverse Auction Fodder 0
- Reverse Auction Throwdown 5
- Reverse Auctions: We’ve come a long way…or Have We? 3
- Is it Time to Be a Better Customer? 0
- It’s Bonus Time – Will Your Employees Feel Valued? 0
- Sustainability Powers Google Lastest Gig 0
- The Changing Landscape of Business 0
- The Fuel Dilemma 0
- Inflation at the Thanksgiving Table 0
- Carbon Offsets: Common Business Practice or Short-Term Fix? 2
- CPO Summit: Procurement and Global Travel 1
- CPO Summit: Going Green – A Manufacturer’s Perspective 0
- CPO Summit: Productivity - The Real Enemy 2
- CPO Summit: Vital Statistics 1
- CPO Summit Kicks Off in Boston 0
- China’s Great Growth Sham 4
- ProcureTech Live: Conference at Your Desktop 0
- Redux: Getting Ahead in M&A 0
- Use Sustainability to Get a Leg Up 0
- The Gap: Corporate Grinch or Globalization Victim? 0
- Getting the Most from Industry Conferences 0
- Sustainability: Think Inside the Box 5
- In Defense of Defense Department Purchasing 0
- Letter from Iraq: Deviant Purchasing 1
- Outcome Sourcing: Teaching New Dogs, Old Tricks 2
- Talent Crunch Knows No Borders 0
- Top Supply Tip: Reader’s Choice 1
- Global Supply Management: A First Look at an Exclusive Study 0
- Empower 2007: Wish You Were Here 0
- Contract Lifecycle Management: Behind the Numbers 0
- Wal-Mart Eco Plan Sparks Supplier Revolt 2
- Contract Management Season Premiere 0
- Attention Wal-Mart Suppliers: Get Green 2
- Supply Now Podcast: Mid-Market Supply Management Success Factors 1
- Supply Management Cliches: The List Continues 0
- What’s Next in Purchasing? Ask Your Supply Management System 4
- Boeing: My Kingdom for a Fastener 4
- IACCM Contract Management Study Live 0
- Help Wanted: New Chrysler CPO? 3
- Reverse Auctions: The Secret to Sun’s Success 0
- Sony to Turn Sustainability into Money Maker 1
- The Trouble With Contract Management May Be You 0
- Top Supply Tips: The Final Decision 0
- Spend Analysis: Building the Business Case 0
- Why Spend Analysis? 0
- Aberdeen’s Spend Analysis Benchmark: The Penultimate Study? 1
- Sustainability: The Writing’s on the Hill 2
- Top Supply Tips Conclusion: Make House Calls 0
- Top Supply Tips Continued: Start Simple 0
- Automotive Co-Ops and Other Tall Tales 0
- Global Supply Benchmark: Last Chance to Play. Last Chance to Win. 0
- Top Supply Tips: Don’t Put Yourself in the Penalty Box 0
- Top Supply Tips: Pad Your Forecasts 2
- Top Supply Tips: Be Predictable 0
- Top Supply Tips: Cut It Out 0
- Benchmark Your Globalization Efforts 0
- Top Supply Tips: Look Inside First 0
- Top Supply Tips: Exec Support is Only Half the Battle 0
- Top Supply Tips: Know Your Suppliers 0
- Top Supply Tips: You’re Still Writing the Book 0
- Fear and Loathing in Global Sourcing 3
- Top Supply Management Cliches: Rock the Vote 16
- Microsoft: The End of Software as We Know It 2
- China Sourcing: Bargains Still Available, If You Know Where to Look 0
- Sustainability How-To Guide in the Making 0
- Purchasing Ethics: The Case for Automation 0
- Is Chrysler Crazy? 3
- China Sourcing Challenges? The Problem May Be You. 1
- Is Benchmarking Worth It? 1
- Negotiations: It’s Not About You 0
- Supply Management Innovation: What are You Waiting For? 0
- Supply Risk Profit Equation 0
- Supply Risk: Purchasing’s Take 0
- Spend Analysis: What do you know, anyway? 0
- Purchasing is Dead. (And Other Conspiracies.) 4
- Supply Management: From Cocktail Chat to Business Value 0
- Supplier Information Management in Action 0
- Tales of the Unexpected: CIOs Bullish on SaaS 0
- Global Supply Management: More Strange But True Tales 0
- The Toughest Place to Manage Global Supply 0
- Supply Now: An Insider’s View of Outsourcing 0
- The Need for Patent Reform: By the Numbers 0
- Offshoring? Not in My Backyard. 3
- Price Breaks Gone Wild 1
- Bull Scrap 1
- Live Profits 0
- Summer Reading for Supply Managers 3
- Supplier 411 0
- It’s 10 0′ Clock. Do you Know Who Your Suppliers Are? 1
- Services Outsourcing: Let’s NOT Make a Deal 0
- Get Real: The Secret to Supply Risk Management 6
- Look Inside First for Outsourcing Success 1
- Oil Crisis to Become SOP 1
- Openness: Good Politics, Good Business 0
- Misfi(RED)? 1
- Future Shock: Avoiding the Hazards of Spend Analysis 0
- Are You a Customer of Choice? 2
- Is Detroit the Next Global Sourcing Hot Spot? 3
- Inflation Woes to Get Worse 2
- Hope on the Patent Horizon 4
- Supply Management 2.0, Texas Style 0
- Pull-Demand: Driving Transformation by Selling Your Value 0
- Top Sources for Supply Risk Intelligence 0
- An Aussie’s Take on Patent Madness 0
- Killing the Messenger: Sparking the Great KPI Debate 1
- Putting an End to Patent Madness 3
- Knowledge is Power in Change-Resistant Culture 0
- The Only KPI that Matters 8
- Supply Management 2.0 Tour is Goin’ Back to Cali’ 0
- Supply versus Spend Management: Hard Savings versus Behavioral Science 1
- New SupplyNow Podcast Tackles Global Contracting, Protectionism, and Chrysler 1
- Managing Supply Risks: What You Can Do Today 1
- Two Faces of Supply Risk Management 2
- Supply Management Successes and Surprises in Second City 0
- Supply Transformation: Avoiding Margaret Thatcher’s Mistakes 1
- Supply Management: Big Apple Style 0
- Continuous Improvement, Nordic Style 0
- Stockholm: Lessons on Hockey, Life, and Supply Management Transformation 2
- e-Sourcing: What it Takes to Woo Vendors 0
- ITT: Turning Tough Times into a Supply Management Opportunity 1
- Supply Excellence Turns One 3
- Barclays: Transforming Supply in an Ever-Changing World 2
- To Share or Not To Share 0
- Survey Opportunity: MRO Procurement Catalog Management 0
- Stockholm: Supply Management Nordic Style 0
- The Illusion of Six Sigma 3
- London Calling: See Supply Management 2.0 in Action 1
- The Business Case for Supplier Performance Management 0
- Where the Discounts Are 1
- New Risk for Your Global Sourcing Strategy: Protectionism 6
- Why Supplier Management Programs Fail. And How to Fix Them. 1
- Believe it or Not: It’s Time to Renegotiate Your Metals Buy 0
- What Does it Take to Truly Manage Supplier Performance? 0
- SupplyNow Podcast Features Supply Management All-Stars 1
- Supplier Performance Management: Industry’s Big Farce 1
- Use Tighter Eco Standards to Your Advantage 0
- Still More Reasons Why Sustainability is Good for Business 2
- Sun Microsystems: Supply Value in Action 1
- How to Get on Your CEO’s Agenda 1
- LCCS: It’s A Lot Closer Than You Think 0
- Will Power Hungry China Boost Your Supply Bill? 2
- The Coming Recession: Why It’s Good for You 2
- Supply Management 2.0: The Cliff Notes 1
- Are You Ready for Supply Management 2.0? 7
- An Ad Worth Reading 1
- In Search of Best Value 6
- Addressing the Services Spend Visibility Crisis 5
- Do You Really Need Spend Analysis Automation? 4
- The Ethanol Debate: A Supply Management View 0
- Spend Analysis: What I Learned From You 0
- Supply Risk Assessments for the Average Joe 0
- Author! Author!: You Wrote the Book on Top Supply Tips 1
- Spend Analysis: Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask 0
- EIPP: The Value of Walking Before You Run 1
- Supply Management: The Sequel 1
- EIPP Expose: Watch This Space 3
- SaaS Disrupts Old-School Thinking 1
- Gartner’s Supply Tips: A Second Opinion 0
- What’s Your Supply Risk Quotient? 0
- The China Syndrome. What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You - Soon. 2
- Who’s the Boss? Chrysler May be Bought by its Supplier 0
- Are You at Risk of Losing Your Top Talent? Take this Quiz to Find Out. 0
- The Talent Crunch: Tips from a Top Purchasing Skills Coach 2
- Chrysler: What Went Wrong? 3
- A Mid-Market Supply Tale 0
- Supply Management: What it Takes for Mid-Market Success 1
- Alert: Podcast on Talent Crunch, Adoption, Sustainable Supply Now Available 3
- Supply Management: The Trouble With the Mid-Market 1
- The Top 5 Worst Supply Management Moves of All Time 0
- iTunes, Tower Records and the Future of Your Technology Infrastructure 0
- Stepping Up Your Sourcing Performance 0
- The Three R’s of Adoption 1
- Does Widespread Adoption Drive the Best Results? 1
- Contract Lifecycle Management: Secrets of Success 2
- e-Markets: Rebirth or Still Dying? 2
- Spend Analysis: Don’t Settle for Lesser “Evils” 1
- Why Outsourcing Fails 0
- Who Says SaaS Can’t Do the Integration Dance? 1
- Is it Time to Outsource Procurement? 4
- Where the Price Increases Are 1
- Can Supply Management Jumpstart Detroit? 2
- LCCS: CEOs See Opportunities and Risks 3
- Sustainable Supply: There’s No Denying It 2
- Exclusive: Navteq’s Success Story 0
- Exclusive: Bootstrapping Supply Management Success 0
- Are You Getting Gouged at the Pump? 0
- Much Ado About Contract Compliance 1
- Sometimes Analysts Get it Right — Unfortunately 0
- Top Negotiated Terms Redux: Are You Spinning Your Wheels? 1
- Travel Costs: Prepare for Takeoff 0
- CEOs Split on Economy, But Certain of Higher Prices 0
- Spend versus Supply Management: The Final Word 4
- Turning the Talent Crunch into an Opportunity 2
- Kicking and Screaming: My Top Picks for 2007 10
- Sustainable Supply the Martha Stewart Way 3
- While You Were Out 0
- What’s Your Environmental Footprint? 0
- 2007: The Year of Sustainable Supply Strategies 6
- Is it Time to Negotiate a Raise? 2
- Profiling Without the Controversy 0
- You Can’t Reverse Auction That, Can You? 1
- A Holiday Sourcing Tale 4
- Gartner Predicts Inflation and Supply Shortages for ‘07 1
- SupplyNow Podcast: The China Factor 2
- Are You Ready for Lean Contracting? 1
- Sourcing Expertise, How May I Direct Your Call? 0
- Supply Transformation: Where’s the Best Place to Start? 2
- Top 10 Supply KPIs: Aberdeen’s View 8
- Exclusive: European Talent Crunch and Technology Forecast 0
- Exclusive: CPO Agenda on Supply Trends in Europe 1
- Feeding the Spend Analysis Frenzy: Aberdeen Chimes In 2
- Aberdeen Reveals CPO’s Secret Fears and Strategies 0
- Three Card Monte and the Currency Risk 2