Episode two of the monthly SupplyNow podcast is now available. This month, the collaborative series between Supply Excellence and Spend Matters, tackles the highly contentious subjects of China, spend visibility, and the future of Detroit.
Our featured guest, Jessica Mahre, Vice President of Operations at A.T. Kearney, shares insights into the do’s, don’t’s, and the future [more]

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IACCM President and CEO Tim Cummins recently penned an article on the challenges of balancing the need for contracting standards and innovation in the face of a rapidly changing global economy. Tim warns that risk avoidance and the litigious nature of our society has led contract and legal organizations to err on the side of [more]

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Aberdeen Group’s latest report, The CPO’s Strategic Agenda, discusses how new pressures are forcing supply management organizations to hire talent with unconventional backgrounds. In recent years, we’ve seen an increase in the number of recruits with finance, engineering, and technology backgrounds added to the supply management team. The Aberdeen report cites a company adding marketing expertise to [more]

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Last week, I had the opportunity to moderate an excellent session on spend analysis best practices. The esteemed panelists shared many gems of wisdom on how to launch a success spend analysis program. I won’t rehash these here. (You can listen for yourself by accessing the free replay.)
However, one off-subject line of discussion raises an [more]

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There is an old saying, “You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep.” In the supply management world, you can tell a lot about an organization and their strategies (and, even, their likelihood for success) by what they measure.
Evidence of this fact came through in Aberdeen Group’s latest report, The CPO’s [more]

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