I saw an advance copy of the “Procurement 2020″ report last week..and it’s got some VERY interesting insights and provocative questions from industry leaders. One of the CPOs interviewed for the report is Roy Anderson, former MetLife CPO and current VP of Procurement Services at Metasys Technologies. Roy offered to speak with the Strategic Sourcing [...]

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This Thursday at 9am Pacific Time, I’m moderating the monthly member call for the LinkedIn group Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. Group members know that I choose the topic every month based on feedback, ideas and volunteers from the members. So when Maureen Kelsey stepped up and offered to share some of her insights on ‘change [...]

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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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