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Sourcing Innovation Sponsorships

Are you an innovator in the e-Sourcing or e-Procurement Space? Do you want smart, intelligent, and progressive practitioners to know about you? Are you a strong believer in end-user education? Do you believe in the power of the blog? Do you want to be associated with a site that gets regular visitors that you want to reach out to not monthly, not weekly, but daily? Would you like to see the amount of content and coverage on Sourcing Innovation increase?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then a Sourcing Innovation Sponsorship might just be for you! Starting in April, Sourcing Innovation will be making available four lead sponsorships. Sponsors will get their logo prominently displayed on the blog, access to a new sponsor advisory program, one introductory sponsor post, and then one interview or (blogger) commentary post per quarter (subject matter at blogger’s discretion).

Full details will be posted in a week or so, but you can reach out using the contact information in the FAQ for more information at your convenience.

Advanced Sourcing Strategies Webinar

Procuri’s Supply Strategy #3 Webinar:

Advanced Sourcing Strategies: Expanding Sourcing Success

February 15, 2007: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm EST

 

Strategic sourcing provides the greatest and most direct lever for controlling costs and managing performance across the supply chain. With globalization and outsourcing on the rise and supply markets tightening, strategic sourcing has become a must-have competency for enterprises of all sizes and industries.

Many enterprises have tested Web-based negotiation technologies, such as reverse auction and e-RFx tools, reporting double-digit cost savings, halving sourcing cycles, and improving overall productivity and process standardization.

However, many early approaches and solutions were too feature-narrow and price-focused to drive sustained results. As a result, supply management groups are looking to build upon their success by adopting advanced sourcing approaches and broader e-sourcing suites.

What you’ll learn

  • How to move beyond the early stages of strategic sourcing to drive sustained results
  • Advanced sourcing strategies to assess true total cost and optimal award scenarios
  • How to assess and select the right e-sourcing platform for your organization
  • How to drive rapid deployment, quick results, and broad adoption with your sourcing program
  • Leverage supply market intelligence and services to improve and sustain momentum

 

Brief the Doctor

A new year has begun, which means a new year of traveling (at least for me) is upon us. I will be hitting a number of major US cities again this year, and am always interested in meeting with companies who have new and innovative offerings in the sourcing, procurement, and related supply chain space (especially if your offering includes optimization or sophisticated analytics capabilities).

Therefore, if you are in, or near (< 50 miles), a major US city [and Phoenix, AZ; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO; Chicago, IL; Indianapolis, IN; Boston, MA; Las Vegas, NV; Newark, NJ; Pittsburgh, PA; and Dallas, TX; in particular] and would like to brief me, or just talk to me, in person, please reach out and I will add you to my list of companies to reach out to when I know I will be in the area. Please note that I will likely be hitting at least four of the parenthesized cities in the next two months, so the sooner you reach out, the better. Those of you who won the blog lottery (I know who you are and you’ve already peaked my interest) may already have an email from me, with SI or Sourcing Innovation in the subject line. If you do, I’d greatly appreciate a response regarding your interest one way or the other.

Just like Jason “The Prophet” Busch, I don’t believe in “pay-to-play”, so please feel free to contact me if you have a story for me to tell. ([shameless plug alert] You can also contact me if you need consulting advice and think I am the consultant for you using the contact information in the FAQ. )

And for those of you just getting back from vacation (I hope you enjoyed it!), Happy New Year!

The CPO Tales

Last week, over on supply excellence, Tim Minahan posted three interviews he did with three leading supply management executives on behalf of eyeforprocurement, which is hosting the Supplier Management Forum next April in Miami. (Register before year’s end to save $400 of the registration price, and quote “Sourcing Innovation” in the discount code area of the registration form to save another $100.)

These interviews were published on SupplyExcellence [WayBackMachine]:

  • Tale of Three CPOs: Coors Brewing Company November 21, 2006
    Tale of Three CPOs: Alltel November 22, 2006
    Corus: The Final CPO Tale…err…Short Story November 24, 2006

They are worth the read.

Fourth Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management

“Optimizing the Supply Chain:
Competitive Advantage through Information Technology”

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
to Friday October 6, 2006
Wyndham Bristol Place Hotel – Toronto Airport
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This symposium will outline recent research on the most critical supply chain issues, and discuss solutions adopted by industry leaders. In addition to presentations of competively-selected academic papers and practitioner presentations, the program will include keynote addresses by leaders in the field, open informal roundtable discussions on specific popular topics, and a stimulating panel discussion by experts in the field.

Goals:

  • to improve the understanding of how best to transform supply chains and their associated activities, thus enhancing the competitiveness of business, government and not-for-profit institutions
  • to enhance interactions among supply chain management practitioners and researchers, creating permanent networking opportunities
  • to increase industry knowledge of recent eBusiness contributions to the supply chain management field and
  • to showcase research strengths in supply chain management and transformation, and to encourage the corporate community to take advantage of these strengths

Event Management Contacts:

MeRC (McMaster eBusiness Research Centre):
Glenda MacDonald, MBA,
MeRC Manager,
Tel: 905-525-9140 Ext. 27027, gmacdon<at>mcmaster<dot>ca

Dr. Elkafi Hassini,
Assistant Professor, Management Science & Information Systems,
DeGroote School of Business
Tel. 905-525-9140 Ext.23954, hassini<at>mcmaster<dot>ca

PMAC (The Purchasing Management Association of Canada,
now The Supply Chain Association of Canada):
Sharon Ferriss, BJ, MBA
Director, Public Affairs and Communications
Tel: 416-542-9129, sferriss<at>pmac<dot>ca

ORNEC (Ontario Research Network in Electronic Commerce):
Dr. Robert J. H. Crawhall,
Executive Director
Tel: 613-998-5237, crawhall<at>ornec<dot>ca