Tomorrow, I am moderating the monthly member call for the LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group. This month’s topic is KPIs. So please join us if you have KPI questions or insights, or if you’d just like to hear your peers engaged in a lively discussion of the subject.
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Charles Dominick, of Next Level Purchasing, recently posted a question to the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn that has been getting a LOT of attention:
“Should you share your selection criteria and weightings with suppliers?”
Needless to say, there are some very strong opinions for and against sharing this information. A few of the best answers [...]

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Long-time readers may remember a year ago when we interviewed Chris Stockwell, VP of Procurement at Heinz, on their efforts to really go after the company’s indirect spend and bring it under management. No doubt a major opportunity for Heinz and one which required careful planning and execution.
So, it was great to speak with Mauricio [...]

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Paul Melchiorre, Ariba’s VP of Strategy had a chance to sit down with Vinnie Mirchandani, former Gartner analyst, and author of The New Polymath, being published by Wiley in June, to discuss how the book’s contents could apply to the sourcing community. Part 1 of the interview is here.

Paul Melchiorre (PM): What New Polymath characteristics [...]

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Paul Melchiorre, Ariba’s VP of Strategy had a chance to sit down with Vinnie Mirchandani, former Gartner analyst, and author of The New Polymath, being published by Wiley in June, to discuss how the book’s contents could apply to the sourcing community.
Paul Melchiorre (PM): To start with. what is a New Polymath?
Vinnie Mirchandani (VM): Paul, [...]

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