Supply Excellence

Open Discussion with Murillo Xavier (author of ‘Suppliers are from Mars, Customers are from Venus’)

May 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment · best practices, sourcing, supplier management, supply management, supply market dynamics

Following hot on heels of a great April group member call on Commodities (replay available here), our Strategic Sourcing & Procurement discussion this month will be led by Murillo Xavier. Murillo is a Supply Chain Project Manager at Nestle Waters North America as well as the author of ‘Strategic Sourcing - Suppliers Are From Mars, [...]

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Buyer’s or Supplier’s Market? Non-price factors as indicators

May 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · metals, supplier management, supply market dynamics

Lead Category Manager Mike Petro explains how non-price factors indicate a shift from buyer’s to seller’s market conditions.

This segment is a clip from the LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member conference call on commodities. You can stream the full replay here (embedded player top center). Request to join the group here.
Justin Fogarty is Managing [...]

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Supplier Risk: Shift from financial to operational

May 10th, 2010 · 5 Comments · oil/energy, sourcing, supplier management, supply management, supply risk

Category Manager Bob Zieger discusses the shift in supplier risk focus away from financial and towards operational.

This segment is a clip from the LinkedIn Strategic Sourcing & Procurement group member conference call on commodities. You can stream the full replay here (embedded player top center). Request to join the group here.
Justin Fogarty is Managing Editor [...]

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Q2 SupplyWatch Issue is posted

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · LCCS and trade, metals, oil/energy, sourcing, supply management, supply market dynamics, supply risk

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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Details for Friday’s Commodities Discussion

April 27th, 2010 · No Comments · oil/energy, sourcing, supply management, supply market dynamics, supply risk

I recently posted about the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group member call on commodities that’ll be conducted this Friday, but wanted to provide a couple updates for those who’d like to listen or participate. Below are the details, format and experts we have lined up.

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