It’s actually sitting right under our nose . . . . . . but we manage to snub our nose at this function time and time again. It’s Purchasing – not Strategic Sourcing, not Category Management, not Global Sourcing, not the forever –exalted Supply Chain (and it’s ever changing scope /definition) but simply Purchasing! And I say Purchasing with all the professional respect this group deserves BUT seldom receives.
Supply Chain Humor:
I admit this is a rant so please proceed with caution. We, at TMG are busy – more than busy, which is great but for me it means that I have limited patience for anything that takes me away from doing what I need to do for my clients. Every week we rotate who is responsible for writing this blog and today was NOT my turn, BUT yesterday I picked up my WSJ at the end of my driveway (yes I still like to read a “paper”) and saw a front page headline “Firms Pinch Payments to Supplier” and I went nuts
There has been a lot of buzz about women over the past couple of weeks because it is women’s history month. In fact I was asked to provide some input to Supply & Demand Chain Magazine on the role of women in Supply Chain which ended up placing me on a list of female supply chain leaders. I was encouraged to see 28 women being honored BUT I know that there are MANY more out there – many of which are my amazing female clients that I have had the honor to work with.
In honor of International Women’s Day, we would like to honor a pioneer in our professions – Barbara Minto – yes, she of The Minto Pyramid fame!! She was the first female graduate of Harvard Business School (1963) and she got in without an undergraduate degree. She was also McKinsey’s first female consultant in the USA