On the Tenth Day of X-Mas … (Supply Chain Blog Posts Worth Keeping)

On the tenth day of X-Mas

my blogger gave to me
blog posts worth keeping,
l’il hampsters dancing,
thoughts for a shilling,
strategies for winning,
tactics for saving,
five golden rings,
four little words,
tri-focal lens,
two boxing gloves
and a lesson in strategy.

10 Sourcing Innovation Blog Posts Worth Keeping

10 Spend Matters Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • Watch Out For Spend Management Pirates
  • Spend Management Software — Now is the Time to Buy
  • A Supplier Bankruptcy Checklist
  • Reverse Auctions — Is it Hammer Time?
  • One Recipe for Attracting Top Talent into Procurement
  • The Total Cost Angle: Understanding Your True Energy Spend
  • What Does the Potential of “the Mother of all Meltdowns” Mean for Procurement?
  • Your e-Procurement Implementation Sucks (and What You Can Do About It)
  • Package Engineering — Going Green and Saving Green
  • Supplier Sustainability: Is Your Brand at Risk?

10 e-Sourcing Forum Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • Kryptonite for e-Sourcing Software Selection and Success
  • Supplier Risk Assessment Best Practices
  • Gloomy Short Term Future for SaaS?
  • e-RFx — It’s Not Just About the TCO
  • Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Telecom Savings
  • Two-Way Scorecarding Best Practices
  • Let the Market Decide!
  • Surefire Strategy For Producing a Consulting Train Wreck: “Just Focus on What You Can Control, You Can’t Be Blamed for the Actions of Others”
  • Strategy in Emerging Markets
  • Can You Really Afford to Leave Millions on the Table?

10 Supply Excellence Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • What’s Your Bailout Plan? Indirect Spend is a Good Start (Part 2)
  • 6 Keys to Getting More from Your Purchasing Staff
  • Is Renegotiating During a Recession Ethical
  • Managing Exceptions Instead of Pushing Paper
  • The Four Core Aspects of Category Assessment
  • 3rd Party Financing — Cut Costs or Raise Prices?
  • Credit Crisis Collaboration: The Best Cash Flow Alternative
  • Spend Management 3.0 and Beyond …
  • Regulators vs. Profitability: How Can Buyers Help?
  • On Demand: What Software Companies Don’t Want You To Know

10 Purchasing Certification Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • Supplier Partnerships Mean You Have to Contribute Too
  • The Recession & Supplier Stratification
  • Supplier Financial Risk & Purchasing/AP Collaboration
  • LCCS and Cultural Considerations
  • Turn The Other Cheek? Not When It’s A Supplier Slapping You!
  • Reverse Auctions STILL Controversial? Come On!
  • Supplier Collaboration – Tales of Two Different Approaches
  • Cost Savings Potential
  • Tough Negotiating: What’s The Worst That Can Happen?
  • Purchasing Principles From The Stanley Cup Finals?

10 Supply Chain Matters Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • Prescriptions for Difficult Times
  • A Perspective on China’s Business Culture
  • Insuring Your Supply Chain Professional Development
  • Supply Chain Management Challenges in the Post Financial Crisis Era
  • Seven Grand Challenges for Supply Chain Management- Part Three
  • A New Look at Inventory Planning Urged
  • Another Lesson of Supply Chain Risk for Food Supply Chains
  • Investing in Supply Chain Technology during Uncertain Times
  • Supplier Portals — The Value Proposition
  • Navigating Through Economic Downturns- the balancing of sourcing strategies

10 Safe Sourcing Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • Consumers care about the environment and safety; not so much about your profitability.
  • Twenty steps to running high quality e-procurement events.
  • Here are nine steps to safer and more eco-friendly procurement.
  • How can retailers creatively use e-procurement tools to limit upcoming losses from below normal holiday spending?
  • How can the procurement department lead the way in company green initiatives?
  • How do suppliers benefit from participation in e-procurement events such as reverse auctions?
  • Should Retailers conduct e-procurement events as Full Service or Self Service? Are there other alternatives?
  • Supplier selection! This may be the most important decision you make.
  • Collaboration. What appears to be common sense obviously is not.
  • Twenty steps to running high quality e-procurement events.

10 e-Sourcing Place Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • Reverse Auction Guidelines
  • Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sourcing Application Suites – A Reaction
  • Spreadsheet Worst Practices
  • Where Next? Has Changed
  • e-Auctions in the News
  • On Reverse Japanese Auctions
  • e-Auctions in Supply Management
  • Does Procurement Auction Design Matter? (Part 4)
  • Does Procurement Auction Design Matter? (Part 1)
  • Another reason why enterprise software is generally so bad

10 Transformation Leadership Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • The Mark of a Leader — Part II
  • Corporate e-Harmony
  • Transformation Insights I
  • Payment Terms IV
  • Deliberate Supply Chain Interruptions
  • Low Cost Country Sourcing
  • TCO — Total Cost of Ownership — IV
  • Supply Chain Components of Natural Gas Cost — II
  • Supplier Risk Management VII
  • The ROI of Supplier Recognition

10 European Leaders Network Blog Posts Worth Keeping

  • Food for thought
  • Psychology the key as survival instincts kick in
  • Lessons from the world’s largest supply chain
  • Suppliers strike back as big boys stick boot in
  • Procurement on the sales radar
  • Europe Catches e-Sourcing Fever
  • Viral marketing hones in on supply chains
  • Tier two cities could put India on the map
  • Research points to new focus on services procurement
  • Supply chain management and the war for talent