This week at the Ariba Commerce Summit in Atlanta, Interarbor Solutions‘ Dana Gardner shared his view of how these 3 Mega Trends - cloud, mobile and community - are changing the IT landscape.

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

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As many of you know, the Category Managers who contribute to Supply Excellence also create a quarterly report called SupplyWatch. The Q2 issue is posted and includes detailed category breakdowns for…

Metals
Plastics, Rubber & Raw Materials
Transportation
Electronics, Electrical & IT Hardware
Paper & Packaging
Services & Capital Goods, Construction & Engineering

This quarter’s feature article is on Working Capital [...]

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Supply Watch report subscribers likely know about this (and have hopefully registered already), but the Category Management team is holding one of their Top 5 Categories to Source Now webinars tomorrow. The details:
Thursday April 1st at 11am Eastern Time (3:00 GMT)
Register here.
On the agenda tomorrow are:

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It’s an understatement to say that the global economic recession has heightened focus of cost cutting and elevated the importance of spend management within most every organization. Yet, I have become increasingly troubled by the advice executives I speak say they are getting from vendors, analysts, or even their own IT departments when they ask [...]

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Earlier this week, Tim, Jason Busch and I penned an open letter to President Obama asking when he’ll deliver his spend management plan. It’s a valid question given the vacancies in 2 out of 3 top procurement spots. However, as Procurement Leaders pointed out yesterday, some improvements in US Government procurement may still be moving [...]

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