When I asked the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement LinkedIn group members to suggest topics for upcoming calls, there were a lot of requests pertaining to indirect spend. So, this Friday, the group’s July member conference call will be an open discussion on indirect categories (marketing and consulting will definitely be covered - if you have [...]

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Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome T&E strategic sourcing guru Scott Gillespie, author of the Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement blog, for some guest posts this week.
Two observations really drove this point home for me last week.  The first came from Marc Hochman, a partner at A.T. Kearney with deep expertise in the procurement [...]

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Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome T&E strategic sourcing guru Scott Gillespie, author of the Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement blog, for some guest posts this week.
Have you noticed a surge of interest in measuring ROI on travel and meeting (T&M) spend?  I’ll get right to the point.  Trying to measure the return on [...]

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On behalf of all of the Supply Excellence contributors, we’d like to wish everyone a very Happy Holidays!
Hopefully over the next few days, you’ll have a chance to turn your attention to family, friends, food … and football, rather than spend management. Although with this story about colleges cutting back on their travel spending for [...]

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Monday the New York Times ran an article on the “new state of normal” in terms of corporate travel. Many companies have tightened their controls over travel spend during the recession and are unlikely to loosen the reigns in the recovery. And according Directravel’s Vince Vitti, who is quoted throughout the article, companies should accomplish [...]

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