While Sourcing Innovation is always willing to consider unsolicited guest posts on any supply management topic, right now Sourcing Innovation is interested in the following subjects and looking for thought leadership on these important issues that are going to shape supply management in the years ahead.

1. Next Generation Sourcing
   Whether you call it Value Focussed Supply (CAPS), Next Practices (The MPower Group), the Supply Chain Value Creation Framework (Tompkins Associates), High Definition Sourcing (Bravo Solution), or Next Level Supply Management (Greybeard Advisors), its clear that the practice of supply management must continue to advance if a supply management organization wants to obtain, and maintain, world class status.
2. Supply Chain Education
   I’m convinced that, right now, Supply Chain Education is Broken and that a new model is needed to fix it. I’m looking for supporting and contradicting views on the issue. We need to establish a dialogue around this fact before its too late because most of your experienced top talent is going to retire and walk out the door in the next five years.
3. Next Generation Supply Chain Platforms
   Right now, everyone is buzzing over cloud and social network platforms, even though the cloud does not yet offer any apparent advantages over true multi-tenant SaaS and most social networks don’t let you do anything more than waste time poking your friends. We need to figure out what a true next generation platform really is, not what the hype mongers tell us it should be. (Hint: It’s not Twitter.)

^*SI has never refused an open demo request, and doesn’t plan to start now, so all requests will be accepted, but it can only guarantee a review and write-up by the end of May to the first seven respondents.