There are two conference seasons in enterprise software, Spring and Fall, and enterprise sourcing and procurement falls into this squarely. Every year, it seems to get crazier and crazier, but what have we learned? The Bigger You Want to Appear, the Bigger Your Conference Needs to Be Back in the day, if you were big, […]
In previous posts, we took a deep dive into e-Sourcing (Part I and Part II), e-Auctions (Part I and Part II), and Optimization (Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV). But in this series we are diving into spend analysis. And this time we’re taking the vertical torpedo to the bottom of the […]
But if it still is, despite the enormous losses that many firms have sustained in recent years as a result of mega-disasters, a recent article over on Supply Chain @ MIT on “Justifying Investments in Risk Avoidance” by Yossi Sheffi (author of The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage) provides you a good starting […]
As per a recent piece by Simchi-Levi, Schmidt, and Wei in the current issue of the Harvard Business Review on managing unpredictable supply chain disruptions, there is little correlation between how much a firm spends annually on procurement at a particular site and the impact that the site’s disruption would have on company performance. In […]
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