It Isn’t Always Strategic! Part I

There’s been a lot of debate about The Life and Death of Strategic Sourcing ever since Dalip Raheja claimed that Strategic Sourcing is Dead back in August (with numerous posts indexed at this link), and while most of it has been good, there’s been one major point missing in all of the debate to date: […]

How Low Can Strategic Sourcing Go?

In the beginning, strategic sourcing and supporting applications were for the Fortune 500 only, not only because they were the only organizations that could afford the multi-million dollar price tags, but they were the only organizations that theoretically had enough spend to see a significant ROI after the (very) significant product, process, and people costs […]

E-I-E-I … E

Dalip Raheja of The Mpower Group recently ran a piece here on Sourcing Innovation on how Old MacDonald Was Right — It Is About E-I-E-I-O when it comes to successful supply chains. And when it comes to performance, he’s right — it’s all about Adoption, Execution, Implementation, Optimization, and Utilization. But when it comes to […]