Tips to Support Supply Chain Risk Management Platform Success + Building the Business Case
Over the past couple of weeks, you’ve most likely noticed a number of posts from my presentation with Sherry Gordon at ISM, focusing on the risk track. In it, we shared what we believe is some of the most important and condensed a…
New Research: Going Collaborative/Quantitative — Limits Reverse Auctions, Strategic Sourcing
This morning, we’re excited to announce the publication of a new Spend Matters and MetalMiner Perspective, A Personal Lesson: Reaching the Limits of Reverse Auctions and Strategic Sourcing — When Collaborative and Quantitative Ap…
US Federal Government Seems a Stronger Employer (and Spender) Than All of Manufacturing
For anyone following government spending or manufacturing trends, there’s a fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal from last week. Authored by Stephen Moore, the piece suggests a radical inversion in jobs growth and creation…
What Happens When China, Other Asian Countries Realize Their Export Markets are Tapped Out
If you talk off-the-record with retailers and CPG companies, many of the largest and most respected in global sourcing will note, not for attribution, that they’re quietly investing in alternative export-driven supply markets to C…
The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: Supplier Management, Cost Reduction and Beyond (Part 1)
I’ve gotten to know a number of procurement executives and former executives at some of the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies over the past few years. And to say that the industry was in the midst of a transformation with pr…
Apple and Supplier Audits — How Far Does the Apple Fall From the Green/CSR Tree (Part 2)?
In the first post in this series, I analyzed trends in Apple’s supplier auditing programs and shared a bit of input on how both physical and virtual audits may allow the tech giant to extend its supplier management reach even furt…
Creating Manufacturing Jobs/Broadening a Domestic Supply Base: Jeff Immelt Alone is Not the Answer
Kudos to Bob Ferrari for picking up on President Obama’s appointment of Jeff Immelt as the leader of an updated Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. We’re generally fans of GE and Immelt’s recent honest outburst China…
America: Built by the Little Guys, Not the Big Ones
I correspond with quite a lot with friends in the Manufacturing world, as one of my big interests aside from software is building things. Come to think of it, that’s really my interest in software too! For a long time there has been a great hue and cry about the demise of Manufacturing in the [...]
Why Cloud Apps Must Co-Exist With On-Premise
Listen to the second part of my conversation with Bruce Richardson, chief strategy officer at enterprise application vendor Infor, and former head of research at analyst firm AMR. In part one, we discussed Why Enterprises Move ERP to the Cloud….
Cloud Q&A: Manufacturing and the Cloud
This is the first in a series of posts of all too common questions I get re: cloud applications. This one looks at whether great cloud/SaaS applications exist for manufacturers.
