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 C-Suite…
We have been sending client advisories to a number of our clients and a large group of Chief Procurement/Supply Chain Officers are getting together on April 4th for a discussion on this topic so I thought I would take one aspect of it for this post – namely,…
. . . to your top talent? If not, then please don’t complain when they walk out the door. For years, we have been talking about the war on talent – especially for highly skilled professionals in procurement, sourcing, finance, consulting, etc. Some of our clients spend so…
The Mpower Group is excited to announce our founding partner, COO, Anne Kohler, has been honored by Supply & Demand Chain Executive as a 2017 Provider Pros to Know. …
While globalization has led to many advantages for supply chains/procurement organizations with access to cheaper labor, lower regulations, access to markets and spreading of wealth, it also means that we are all now tied into the global economy and subject to its whims. It is a system and…