While Supply Risk has been a hot topic in procurement and supply chain circles for some time, it’s been difficult to find broad-based empirical information about what organizations are doing on this front. The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics is looking to do something about that. They are currently conducting a “Global [...]

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The DonorsChoose.org Social Media Challenge is in its final week and it’s been a huge success thus far. All together, over 300k has been raised from nearly 4,000 donors. Best of all, due to DonorsChoose.org’s model - where donors give directly to individual projects posted by teachers - we know that 94,609 students have been [...]

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It’s back to school season for those of us with kids. And as we all know, a critical part of the first week of every school year is the back to school essay on “what I did this summer.” Rather than ask Supply Excellence readers to retell their tales of bocce ball, beaches and overpriced [...]

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Next Level Purchasing officially unveiled their new SPSM2 purchasing certification today (after several weeks of Charles Dominick teasing twitter followers about an upcoming major announcement). Designed as a follow up to SPSM Certification, the new coursework focuses on “processes that are becoming more significant in the purchasing field - international procurement, advanced negotiation, and managerial [...]

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I am at the Ariba LIVE World Tour event in New York City today and will be posting and Tweeting (#AribaLIVE) with highlights. First off this morning, we had a keynote from former Undersectary of State Nicholas Burns, a career diplomat serving under 5 Presidents and now teaching the nation’s next foreign service leaders at [...]

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