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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At the Atlanta Spend Management Day yesterday, Kurt Albertson, Director of Advisory Services with The Hackett Group, examined past predictions and gave some new insight into 2010 predictions and beyond.
According to Hackett’s forecasts from July 2008, the 2009  economy was going to create the “perfect storm.” It was a time to secure up supply, highlight [...]

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At the Ariba User Conference held last week in Nashville, I had the opportunity to lead two sessions focused on spend adoption-an initiative that’s getting a lot of traction in the marketplace.
What is spend adoption? It’s the process of selecting a category of spend, enabling the catalog or contract content on the P2P solution, [...]

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Thomas Crichton, Senior Manager of General Procurement at The Stanley Works, describes their top supply chain challenge (ensuring supplier viability) and urges other procurement organizations to “go after the deflationary marketplace.”

Once again, let me put out the call for questions for the Chicago Ariba LIVE presenters or attendees. Please leave suggested questions/topics in the comments [...]

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