As you have heard us mention before, we find IACCM to be in a unique position to help change the discussion around how organizations enter and optimize trading relationships because they have both the buy and the sell sides represented as members. We hosted a webinar today with…
Yesterday we facilitated the regional meeting of IACCM (thanks to T-Systems for hosting) and I thought I would share some of the discussion. As I’ve mentioned in the past, the confluence of the buy and sell side at these events is very stimulating and offers the best potential…
There are some global demographic trends that are already underway and their impact is already being felt so this is not a prediction but an acknowledgement of reality. At a high level, countries like Japan, China, Germany etc. have a shrinking work force while the growth will be…
I was recently on the phone with the CEO of a software solution provider whom I met at a recent conference (Hi Russ) in our profession and we started talking about how the process of engaging with suppliers is inefficient and ineffective. While I’m sure that every person…
We wrote a series of blogs: Strategic Sourcing is Dead!!! in 2010 on this topic and we caused a huge stir in our professional community. Our basic hypothesis was that the sourcing process was actually destroying, yes destroying value for their organizations. I won’t bore you with the various…
