The Sourcing Innovation Resource Site, always immediately accessible from the link under the “Free Resources” section of the sidebar, continues to add new content on a weekly, and often daily, basis. Unlike many “resource”, “best of”, or “portal sites” that are abandoned almost as quickly as they are thrown together, the resource site is actively maintained (and dead links are removed on a regular, usually weekly, basis).
In fact, there have been over 75 resource additions in the past week alone, including:
- 8 new conferences,
- 29 new archived webcasts, and
- 37 new upcoming webcasts.
In addition, the resource site now tracks on-line (free and paid) press release services that you can use to distribute your press releases that advertise your offerings, (human-edited) web directories that will assist you in finding resources outside of the supply chain that may be helpful with other aspects of your business, and (human-edited) blog directories that track blogs with a business, but not necessarily supply chain, focus. And it just introduced a new glossary that currently contains over 20 detailed definitions, and discussions, of common supply chain terms and technologies. This glossary, whose entries act as a starting point in your search for additional information, will grow in size and content over time, but right now you can dive into:
Contract Management Cost Reduction Decision Optimization e-Sourcing Software Global Sourcing Global Trade Green Supply Chain Inventory Management |
Logistics Management Procurement Process Purchasing Best Practices Reverse Auction RFX (RFB/RFI/RFP/RFQ) Risk Management Service Management |
Strategic Sourcing Supplier Management Supply Chain Finance Supply Chain Forecasting Supply Chain Management Supply Management Sustainable Supply Chain Talent Management |
The total number of unique, active resources exceeds the 2,000 mark, and breaks down as follows:
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And includes the following recent additions, among many others:
Supply Chain Conference Listings
Dates | Conference | Sponsor |
2009-Mar-1 to
2009-Mar-3 |
SCCE Utility and Energy Conference
Houston, Texas, USA (North-America) |
SCCE |
2009-Apr-29 to
2009-May-1 |
Demand Planning & Forecasting: Best Practices Conference
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (North-America) |
IBF |
2009-Apr-29 to
2009-May-1 |
Gartner Risk Management and Compliance Summit
Chicago, Illinois, USA (North-America) |
Gartner |
2009-May-18 to
2009-May-20 |
World Conference on Quality and Improvement
Minneapolis, MN, USA (North-America) |
ASQ |
2009-Jun-18 to
2009-Jun-19 |
21st European Forum for External Trade, Excise and Customs
Linz, Austria (Europe) |
EFA |
Archived On-Demand Supply Chain Webcasts
Original Date | Webcast | Sponsor |
2008-Jan-1
00:00 GMT/WET |
Closed Loop Spend Management | Management Dynamics |
2008-Jan-1
00:00 GMT/WET |
Service Part Smarts: Profit-Driven Strategies for Service Parts Supply Chains | Logility |
2008-Apr-1
00:00 GMT/WET |
Roadmap to Profitable Cross-Channel Allocation and Order Management | Manhattan Associates |
Upcoming Supply Chain Webcasts
Date & Time | Webcast |
2009-Mar-3
11:00 GMT-08:00/AKDT/PST |
Enterprise Efficiency and Mitigating Risk. The Procurement and Outsourcing Professionals’ Contribution through Records and Imaging
Sponsor: SIG |
2009-Mar-4
11:00 GMT-08:00/AKDT/PST |
The Cost Cutting Conundrum
Sponsor: Coupa |
2009-Mar-6
11:00 GMT-05:00/CDT/EST |
The Smarter Supply Chain of the Future
Sponsor: SCC |
2009-Mar-11
14:00 GMT-04:00/AST/EDT |
Sourcing Best Practices in Today’s Economy
Sponsor: Purchasing |
2009-Mar-24
8:00 GMT-07:00/MST/PDT |
Coping With The Economic Downturn: How Contract Management Automation Can Deliver Savings
Sponsor: IACCM |
which are all readily searchable from the comprehensive Site-Search page. So don’t forget to review the resource site on a weekly basis. You just might find what you didn’t even know what you were looking for!
And continue to keep a sharp eye out for new content and even more new content categories which will be coming on-line in the near future!