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Procurement Must Transition into an R&D Based Organization to Exploit Big Data!

I had the opportunity to spend some time at IBM’s Research Triangle Park facility, (the actual hosting site for the Watson computer) this past week.  IBM hosted a roundtable for the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies, with executives from P&G, US Steel, CB&I, Mastercard, and others attending.  In that session, Dan Carrell from IBM shared […]

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Partner Success: Ministry Health Care

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“Specifically, from the SCRC’s recommendations, Ministry has implemented an ABC Inventory System and an EOQ model with the following benefits. From the ABC, Ministry implemented a Kan-Ban supply replenishment system to better manage ‘C’ inventory items, resulting in reduction of .5 FTE as well as eliminating over 22,000 wasted steps, in just one of our fifteen hospitals. Furthermore, and most…

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Corporate Vice President & Chief Supply Chain Officer, Ministry Health Care

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  E-Procurement and the Purchasing Process

  Robert Handfield, Ph.D.

  Many organizations are beginning to re-evaluate their purchasing processes, and identify new types of e-procurement tools that will meet their…

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  A Quick Primer on BPM: Business Process Management

  Cecil Bozarth, Ph.D.

  The concept of business process management (BPM for short) has been around for a number of years now, but just…

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