Cost Savings, cost savings, cost savings – if we focus on cost savings at the expense (no pun intended 😊) of what is most important to our “customer” then we Fail. Period. Herein, lies the single biggest difference between Strategic Souring and Category Management – focusing on your…
All Procurement /Supply Chain organizations can be positioned on a Maturity Model. Some of you are still trying to move from tactical Purchasing to Sourcing while others may be trying to make the leap from Strategic Sourcing to Category Management. Regardless of where you are, the journey to…
If you missed our last PERT (Procurement / Supply Executive Round Table) event, you missed a good one. On Tuesday (5/14), a group of high-powered Fortune 1000 CPOs got together for the day to discuss “Procurement Technology In the Age of Blockchain, RPA and AI – Do you…
When I was entering college, my dream job was to become a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue. I felt so strongly about it that I majored in Fashion Merchandising. In the spirit of full disclosure, I ended up double majoring in Accounting and became a CPA. But life…
I wish I had a nickel (yes that would suffice) for every time a client told us that a new technology they were considering was going to completely transform their business. We have been led to believe that “Digital Transformation” is the silver bullet that will take our…
