You’ve got to give Charles Dominick credit for the most interesting way to gather the success stories of some of procurement’s best and brightest. The Purch-lympics had his blog’s readers competitors submit essays on purchasing and supply management subjects then work their way through competitive rounds of heats and semi-finals where other readers chose their [more]

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SpendMatters blogger and all around industry guru Jason Busch is back with another round of Category Chatter podcasts. In case you’re not familiar with the series, the podcasts feature Jason interviewing various Ariba Category Managers on hot topics of the day. If the area of spend they’re covering is of interest to you, Jason’s probing [more]

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After covering #5 Direct Materials, #4 Travel & Expenses and #3 Transportation, we’re down to the silver medalist in our countdown: Temporary Labor. Like the other categories, Temp Labor has been impacted by the fluctuations in the US and global economies. But unlike the others, the impact of rising fuel and commodity prices is not [more]

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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:

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The glass half full side of me was hoping that the weak US dollar is blunting the impact of high commodity prices for EMEA businesses. But that optimism was squashed pretty quickly here. Everyone is hurting. And although there are some options for companies looking to trim spend on things like transport and metals, savvy [more]

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