In Part I, we noted that the information industry (defined as processors, producers and distributors of data, informational, and cultural products) shed over 750,000 jobs between 2001 and 2011, making it the sector that accounted for the second biggest loss of jobs after manufacturing, as per this recent interactive info-graphic on America’s Incredible Shrinking Information […]
Two years ago, we reviewed BravoSolution’s Business Center Category Sourcing Solution that took e-Sourcing to a new level for nine common categories that provided the average Supply Management organization with a considerable sourcing challenge. In order to maximize savings in each of these categories, the organization needed to construct category-specific RFQs/RFBs for the category, collect […]
Kinaxis, which was first reviewed on SI by the Sourcing Maniacs in their classic 2008 Vendor Tour, is one of the most interesting companies in the entire Supply Management space. Billing themselves as a RapidResponse solution, which was initially designed to be a demand management platform (available on-demand) to assist supply chain professionals in managing […]
Supplier Information Management is more than just buying a Supplier Information Management (SIM) solution and plopping it into your data centre. Much more. But yet, it seems that some people — anxious to deal with the visibility, risk management, and supplier performance issues facing them — believe that merely obtaining a SIM solution will solve […]
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Ethics are becoming more important by the day. Just ask BP, the Gap, Chick Fillet, and Monsanto, who have all had to deal with Boycotts in recent years (for oil spills, supply chain factory fires resulting in worker death, stance on gay rights, and genetically modified food). You don’t […]