Friday’s group discussion on Vested Outsourcing led by University of Tennessee faculty member Kate Vitasek went very well. For anyone unfamiliar with her work, Kate literally wrote the book on Vested Outsourcing, a model that utilizes incentives to create more strategic relationships between buying organizations and their outsourcing vendors. So when she stepped up and [...]

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Last month, the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Group on LinkedIn hosted our 1st Group conference call. Things got off to a great start with Chris Sawchuk leading a discussion on “key issues” in 2010.
Now, for our February call…
Kate Vitasek, who literally wrote the book on “Vested Outsourcing”, will be leading the discussion. So, come armed [...]

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Over the last several decades, supply chains in retail have become increasingly complicated with more players and more “links in the chain.” Retailers around the world are increasingly dependent on outside parties for some of their most critical supply chain functions like fulfillment and distribution. And while this has allowed retailers to focus on [...]

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Although not widely reported at the time of its passage, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) program contains provisions that have implications for US businesses that incorporate off-shore services into their business model. The Treasury Department has implemented both implicit and explicit rules to discourage TARP funding recipients from off-shoring and encourage investment in the [...]

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In a post yesterday by Jason Busch on Spendmatters.com, YOH - Crossing an Ethical Boundary as an MSP?, the question of ethics in Managed Service Provider ’s (MSP) conduct arose. In the article, Jason stated that YOH, an MSP based in Philadelphia, would provide preferential treatment to staffing [...]

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