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May 17, 2012

The Paperless Office: Pipe Dream, Procurement Mandate, or Sustainability Boondoggle?

In today’s cost-cutting environment, many procurement and category management teams are sharpening their pencils and looking at ways to reduce indirect spend in areas such as printing, document management, and…

May 8, 2012

Socialization: An Important Dimension of Supply Chain Relationships

The ability to capture value from your business relationships is increasingly seen as critical differentiator in firm success (Cousins et al., 2006). Much of the strategic purchasing literature addresses the…

May 1, 2012

Talent Management Insights from SCRC Meeting

A number of great presentations from today’s SCRC meeting focused on how different organizations are thinking about managing their talent supply chain.  I helped to set the stage by applying…

Apr 25, 2012

SCM Talent Management: Creating the Next Generation of Superheroes!

Our upcoming SCRC meeting  (April 30-May 1 in Raleigh, NC) is one that I am sure will peak a lot of interest in today’s supply chain professional.  The theme of…

Apr 24, 2012

The Global Phosphate Supply Market: Risky and Getting Riskier

An MBA student team in my supply market intelligence class  this week presented their supply market intelligence study on phosphate production.  One of the key points was the volatility of…

Apr 18, 2012

Building the Integrated Delivery System at Honeywell Aerospace

I had an opportunity to meet with the executive team at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix this week, and learned a great deal about the interesting challenges that exist in the…

Apr 10, 2012

How to Read the Inventory Tea Leaves…

An article in the WSJ provides an interesting set of perspectives on what increasing or shrinking inventory numbers might mean in terms of an organization’s supply chain performance.  As I…

Apr 4, 2012

Random Thoughts on the Impact of Frugal Innovation on the Supply Chain

In this week’s Economist, an article by Schumpeter provides some interesting views on the emerging concept of “frugal innovation”.  He cites the example of the Tata Nano, a $2,000 car…

Apr 3, 2012

What Will the Role of the CIO Look Like In the Next Five Years?

I recently spoke with Todd Taylor from Apptivo, who is writing a book on IT technology management.  Apptivo provides IT business technology management, and is focused on transparency of IT…

Apr 2, 2012

Lean Aerospace Supply Management Developments

In a recent set of interviews, I had an opportunity to learn about some of the recent developments in the aerospace industry, that is happening in both commercial and defense…