At the recent Procurement Executive Round Table (PERT) workshop, we tackled the topic of defining Response Lead Time (RLT) and you may remember that we started the work of defining that as a metric. A quick reminder – just like you are ensuring that your…
As you can well imagine, the interest and focus on Supplier Diversity has increased significantly given the current socio-political climate. We have been responding to many queries and as a result have recently updated and revamped our Supplier Diversity Readiness Risk Assessment and I thought…
First, I hope you are all staying healthy and safe. Since March we have been dealing with two major global crises – COVID 19 and severe social unrest. As Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain professionals we have been struggling with how to help our organizations…
First, I hope you are all staying healthy and safe. Most of us are now into our fifth month of working remotely and we are slowly but surely becoming pros at working virtually. Whether you are using Zoom or some other such solution, we have…
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 to the…