The short answer is YES! And this from a firm that has long derided the latest buzz words from the consultant community and got harangued for recommending the death of Strategic Sourcing a few years back. Every function must continue to evolve and the faster…
Since, this is the beginning of Easter weekend, we thought we would delay our really serious blog post that we had planned. We hope you have a safe holiday weekend with friends and loved ones. From all us at The Mpower Group
Whether your organization is doing Strategic Sourcing OR Category Management the answer to my question is usually “YES BUT. . . . . . . not all the time, not thoroughly, not under a disciplined framework, we really don’t know what we are doing.” If…
As I was struggling to find a topic, a colleague sent me this article entitled How to Cut Costs More Strategically (HBR-Paul Leinwand & Vinay Couto) as a suggestion and what immediately struck me was that it sounded very familiar. Sure enough, I found an…
Category Management is the latest advancement of the Strategic Sourcing process and is taking our professional community by storm. The ability to align strategic business objectives with appropriate sourcing strategies is finally allowing procurement and supply chain professionals to become far more strategic. The move…