A recent spate of news around this topic makes this an opportune time for this discussion. Any Category Management (CM) strategy (and for this discussion we will talk about outsourcing offshore as the CM strategy) MUST have an exit ramp as an integral component. The reason that offshoring…
Again, before I start, please know that The Mpower Group has all our readers in our hearts and prayers as we all get through this very difficult time together. As we are all working from home, trying to keep up with our daily work and doing whatever it…
I get a big kick out of these annual surveys (and we’ve done our fair share of them at TMG). We often use them to validate key messages with clients. I recently came across this one from Deloitte and I was struck by what it was telling us and…
I can’t remember the first time I saw some article/white paper with that topic and blaring title but it was a looong time ago. And I betcha if you google it today you would get a large number of hits. We have also spoken on this topic at…
Last week I was running a workshop for Strategic Sourcing professionals and the subject matter was supplier selection and relationship management. One of the topics we discussed was the loss review. Some of the questions I received were: Should we be doing loss reviews? When do you let…
