Jason Busch of SpendMatters recently hosted a number of podcasts with our Category and Commodity Managers (many of whom will be familiar names to regular Supply Excellence readers). The Category Chatter podcast series dives deep, sometimes very deep into the market trends, pitfalls and opportunities in each of these areas:

Low-Cost Country Sourcing - Jason and [more]

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Companies are constantly looking for new and better ways to gain efficiencies and improve effectiveness, all while lowering costs. It’s the ‘holy trinity’ of business. And in the race to find this mystical balance, many have turned to outsourcing even core functions of their business to low-cost countries. However, the reality is that the perfect [more]

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Another big issue that’s been coming up over and over again at Ariba LIVE this year is the challenge of finding and retaining good, qualified people. Staff retention is still a huge challenge for category experts, procurement and strategic sourcing roles. And if Professor Wheelan’s concerns about education stagnation aren’t remedied, this problem could continue [more]

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First, I gave you the Good News about the Global Economy from Professor Charlie Wheelan’s mainstage presentation this morning. Probably left you feeling pretty darn good about the state of the world. One big happy place full of potential for 6 billion enterprising souls.
Well, I hate to rain on the parade, but the Professor also [more]

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As I mentioned yesterday, I was really looking forward to Professor Charlie Wheelan’s talk on the Global Economy and he lived up to my expectations. Given that his work deals with the intersection of economics and public policy, it’s no surprise that the context of his talk was around the choices we face as a [more]

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