Sourcing Innovation is a resource for sourcing, procurement, and supply chain professionals who are interested in improving themselves and the overall performance of their organizations. Sourcing Innovation is education about, in-depth analysis of, and subjective opinion on technologies and approaches that can have a profound impact on the way you do business. The editor believes that the more you know, the better your chances of success.
That’s why Sourcing Innovation brings you in-depth technology and vendor analyses, reviews and analysis of some of the more important articles and white-papers that pop-up from time to time, as well as best practices and deep dives into specific solution areas. Sourcing Innovation also explores key issues that you need to be aware of as a sourcing professional.
However, use of this blog and any content on means that you accept all of the editorial disclaimers, licenses, and copyright requirements associated with this blog. You also accept this is a free resource for personal, non-commercial, use for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only! No warranties, express or implied, are provided on the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information and Sourcing Innovation shall have no liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in the information contained herein or for interpretations thereof.
You also accept that while Sourcing Innovation will cover, and provide opinions on, companies, solutions, platforms, and/or products, Sourcing Innovation is NOT making a recommendation for or against any specific company, solution, platform, and/or product. It is merely providing one data point that may be used in your consideration, at your own risk, and any recommendations it provides are for situations in which it would consider or not consider the company, solution, platform, and/or product for a shortlist. (i.e. it would include, or not include, the company, solution, platform, and/or product based on a specific scenario)
Sourcing Innovation, was started in June of 2006 to dive deeper into technology, processes and core issues than the average blogger and analyst (who tends to come from a business background in marketing, management, solutions consulting, or system implementation, and is therefore unable to comment as credibly on underlying technology) than other sites that existed at the time.
A second primary goal of this blog tis o raise awareness of innovative best practices and technologies that are relatively unknown but that could be used by a large number of organizations to elevate their performance as a whole. When one combines the impending talent crunch with the rapid rise of developing nations like China and India, innovation takes on a whole new importance, since it might be the only way North America, Western Europe, and other developed nations will be able to compete in the coming decades. When this blog was started in 2006, we were seeing rapid rise in energy and raw material prices globally which was followed by the rapid fall of the US dollar in 2007 and the 2007-2008 financial crisis; and while the situation improved, there were still many bumps along the way from 2009 through 2019 and then 2020 saw the world shut down when China shut down during COVID, and just as supply chains started to normalize we saw Panamanian droughts and conflict in the Red Sea, continuing the global sourcing nightmares which have now been ongoing for over 4 years (as of July, 2024). In other words, every time global business resolves a fork in the road, yet another one appears, and only the organizations that continually innovate will be able to find the path that leads to continued success.
Sourcing Innovation was designed to be one of the focal points for the sourcing community with steady technology and process coverage. A large number of blogs have come and gone over the last couple of decades, and at any given time it’s hard to know who’s blogging, on what topic, and where the thought leaders have gone.In the past, Sourcing Innovation regularly organized cross-blog posting series that focused on important, key topics and regularly invited the thought leaders to guest post. (To date, Sourcing Innovation has successfully tackled The Future of Sourcing, The Top Three, and Sustainability and has brought together between one dozen and two dozen leading bloggers and thinkers on each topic as well as attracting around 100 of the space’s thought leaders to its virtual pages.) Today, it updates its blog list at least annually and occasionally invites leading experts to contribute.
Sourcing Innovation also injects a sense of humour, usually lyrical in nature, on topics of interest.
Finally, as mentioned above, Sourcing Innovation is not afraid to express an opinion (purely subjective and should not be taken as fact) and rant on a topic. (But please note rants are on topics, processes, industry directions, class of entities, solution types, etc. and other generalities. Rants are not on specific vendors or people. If you believe otherwise, you are wrong. As mentioned above, regardless of the view expressed on a company or solution, Sourcing Innovation is not providing a recommendation for or against, as every situation is unique and Sourcing Innovation never knows all of your specific details.)
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