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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This week at the Ariba Commerce Summit in New York, Gartner’s Dennis Gaughan shared their firms insights into b2b commerce trends, including ‘the cloud’, working capital management and collaboration.

We’ll be shooting a lot of interviews at the Commerce Summits over the next few weeks. So, check back here, on Ariba Exchange or our YouTube channel [...]

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This Thursday, I’m moderating the September LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member call. This month, we’re talking about Finance, specifically the relationship between finance and procurement. Helping us navigate this touchy subject huge opportunity for collaboration, efficiency gains and increase cash flow will be:

Charles Dominick, CEO of NextLevelPurchasing, who will share what they’re seeing [...]

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If you’re not already familiar with the Sourcing Interests Group (SIG), you should be. The organization has spent the last 19 years striving hard to accomplish their mission; to “assist companies in strategy development, the improvement of goods and services sourcing, and the implementation and management of corporate services through outsourcing, offshoring, insourcing and shared [...]

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A lot of Supply Excellence readers are members of the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn and may have seen the lively discussion in December on how the Group can become a more valuable resource in 2010. Out of that discussion, the idea to have regular conference calls to tap into the Group’s collective [...]

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