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	<title>Supply Excellence</title>
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	<description>Next Generation Strategies for Supply Management</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Live from LIVE: Cultural Divide</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/14/stakeholder-compliance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
	<category>supply management</category>
	<category>best practices</category>
	<category>AribaLIVE</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this morning&#8217;s Pharmaceutical/Healthcare Transformation breakout session, Reema Alzoubi, a Manager in Pfizer&#8217;s Worldwide Procurement group, discussed some interesting cultural challenges that they face internally and externally. Not too surprisingly, they found the solution on both fronts to be personal contact with their stakeholders.
Pfizer initially had a difficult time moving their European suppliers towards a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from LIVE: Finding and keeping good people</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/14/staff-retention/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/14/staff-retention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
	<category>best practices</category>
	<category>skills rectruitment and development</category>
	<category>outsourcing</category>
	<category>LCCS and trade</category>
	<category>Services Procurement</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another big issue that&#8217;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&#8217;s concerns about education stagnation aren&#8217;t remedied, this problem could continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from LIVE: Lessons from Private Equity</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/13/private-equity-value-through-spend-management/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/13/private-equity-value-through-spend-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 02:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
	<category>supply management</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Private Equity (PE) firms don&#8217;t usually come to mind when you hear the terms &#8220;strategic sourcing&#8221; or &#8220;procurement.&#8221; But Shant Mardirossian&#8217;s solo mainstage presentation and contributions to the Views from the C-Suite roundtable today showcased a very interesting use of spend management principals as a pivotal piece of how PE firms are extracting value from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from LIVE: Suppliers are not the enemy</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/13/supplier-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/13/supplier-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 23:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
	<category>supply management</category>
	<category>sourcing</category>
	<category>best practices</category>
	<category>events</category>
	<category>AribaLIVE</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One theme that I&#8217;ve seen several presenters stress is the importance of building and maintaining good relationships with suppliers. In the words of IACCM President Tim Cummins, you &#8220;must be [your suppliers&#8217;] trading partner of choice.&#8221;
MetLife&#8217;s VP of Global Procurement, Roy Anderson, said having that type of cooperation with their supply base is key to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from LIVE: Bad News about the Global Economy</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/13/charlie-wheelan-global-economy-bad-news/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/13/charlie-wheelan-global-economy-bad-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 21:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
	<category>supply management</category>
	<category>sourcing</category>
	<category>best practices</category>
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	<category>enviro/social sustainability</category>
	<category>costing</category>
	<category>LCCS and trade</category>
	<category>oil/energy</category>
	<category>AribaLIVE</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, I gave you the Good News about the Global Economy from Professor Charlie Wheelan&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from LIVE: Good New about the Global Economy!</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/13/charlie-wheelan-global-economy-good-news/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/13/charlie-wheelan-global-economy-good-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 19:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>LCCS and trade</category>
	<category>supply market dynamics</category>
	<category>oil/energy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned yesterday, I was really looking forward to Professor Charlie Wheelan&#8217;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&#8217;s no surprise that the context of his talk was around the choices we face as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live from Ariba LIVE in Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/12/ariba-live-kick-off/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/12/ariba-live-kick-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 02:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Fogarty</dc:creator>
		
	<category>best practices</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the ground in Vegas after a short, bumpy flight from San Jose. As you may already know, Ariba LIVE 2008 kicks off here tonight (that is if I&#8217;m allowed to consider a reception at Tao as &#8216;on the clock&#8217;). So there will be three days full of sourcing, procurement, finance and legal professionals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper, Plastic or BYOB (bring-your-own-bag)?</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/12/plastic-bag-ban-green-brand/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/12/plastic-bag-ban-green-brand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Terchila</dc:creator>
		
	<category>supply management</category>
	<category>sourcing</category>
	<category>best practices</category>
	<category>enviro/social sustainability</category>
	<category>oil/energy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve come a long way since San Francisco&#8217;s City Council banned plastic bags 13 months ago. At the time, the move seen as more of a late night TV punch line than a serious attempt to promote environmental sustainability. But in the wake of more legislated bans (as China, Ireland, Uganda and a host of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler&#8217;s Supply Plan: Back the Future</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/09/chrysler-supply-chain/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/09/chrysler-supply-chain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Minahan</dc:creator>
		
	<category>supply management</category>
	<category>best practices</category>
	<category>automotive sector</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowing my passion for the Detroit turnaround, CPO Agenda Editor Geraint John this week turned me on to his exclusive interview with Chrysler&#8217;s new procurement chief John Campi. As noted here, the ex-Home Depot supply management lead has his work cut out for him. Chrysler has the least buying power of the Big Three and, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Owns (Outsourced) Medical Records?</title>
		<link>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/08/patient-medical-records-outsourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://supplyexcellence.com/blog/2008/05/08/patient-medical-records-outsourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crystal Liles</dc:creator>
		
	<category>supply management</category>
	<category>outsourcing</category>
	<category>LCCS and trade</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today featured terrifying reports about the state of medical records today. WSJ highlighted the incompetence and abuse by insurance companies, hospitals and the federal government, who have exposed private information about hundreds of thousands of patients in recent months. The incidents ranged from inadvertent posting of records [...]]]></description>
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