First, we hope you, your family and your colleagues are staying healthy and safe. Like many / most of you I am so tired of COVID – talking about it, fearing it and living with its repercussions. Most of us have now spent MONTHS (six to be exact…
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 supply chain/suppliers are…
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 I would get…
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 deal with all…
We’ve had a long ride on this “train” already and it looks like it’s not about to stop for a while (this “train” can cross oceans btw), let’s all be prepared for a longer ride. But let’s also not forget that there are some miniscule benefits to how…