Oct 5, 2016
The number of workers who are “contingent is growing rapidly. Brian Hoffmeyer from IQ Navigator, a procure to pay solution, spoke today at IBM’s Empower event on this trend, and…
Sep 7, 2016
A recent discussion with my colleague Tim Cummins at IACCM suggests that an increasing number of oil and gas companies are exploring alternatives to traditional “lump sum bid” contracts, that…
Aug 6, 2016
It is that time of year again, and the SCRC team is getting ready to prepare for a new semester starting the week of August 15th! As always, we have…
Jun 27, 2016
I had the opportunity to attend the Procurement Leaders in San Francisco forum two weeks ago, followed by attending the ISM Carolinas-Virginia meeting in Winston Salem last week. Procurement analytics…
Apr 19, 2016
I had an opportunity to sit in on the second day of the Sourcing Industry Group meeting in Orlando today. Ed Hansen from the law firm of Morgan Lewis presented…
Apr 11, 2016
Automotive news seems to be coming up a lot lately. A story in the Wall Street Journal revealed that Bo Andersson, the current CEO of Russia’s largest car maker AvtoVAZ, plans…
Apr 4, 2016
Debates over outsourcing are appearing with more frequency in the press. Companies have outsourced so many of their processes, through “Business Process Outsourcing”, that many now just sit as marketing…
Nov 12, 2015
I had the opportunity to visit with Tim Cummins and Katherine Kawamoto from IACCM, who came by the SCRC offices yesterday to chat. We spent some time catching up on…
Oct 4, 2015
I am speaking at the Zycus Horizons conference this week, being held at the Reynolds Plantation in Georgia. As part of the conference, I’m delivering a talk on five predictions…
Sep 24, 2015
I was recently involved in a survey of best practices in establishing a diverse supply base. The most important and common method for driving diversity objectives in the survey (in…