Supply chain analytics

Apr 10, 2013

Patrick Hopkins at Coupa: Coca Cola’s four truths of procurement to pay in action

At the Coupa INSPIRE procurement conference in San Francisco this week, the Chief Procurement Officer of Coca Cola Consolidated, Patrick Hopkins, shared his views on the “4 Truths of Procurement”,… 

Mar 21, 2013

Analytics Holds the Key for End to End Integration

“It’s the dialogue when teams review analytics that’s most insightful. Data without context is useless.” – Senior Manufacturing Supply Chain Executive This comment was made in a recent discussion by… 

Jan 24, 2013

Healthcare Reform Begins with Comparative Cost Effectiveness: A Revolution in Healthcare Management

Josh Feldstein from the Center for Applied Value Analysis came to speak in my class today, and provided a fascinating view of the future for healthcare. CAVA started off as… 

Aug 27, 2012

The Power of Bloomberg in Creating Supply Chain Intelligence and Risk Alerts

Supply chains are difficult to study.  People do not want analysts knowing about their supply chains.  So creating market intelligence around supply chains is extremely challenging.  Yet analysts rely on… 

Feb 1, 2012

P&G slashes marketers in lieu of free social media

A recent article in business insider portends bad news for marketing folks.  Procter and Gamble’s prodigious CEO, Robert McDonald, announced that he is going to lay off 1600 marketing people… 

Jan 27, 2012

The Lowly UNSPSC Is Moving up in the Supply Chain World!

The inauspicious UNSPSC (United Nations) code began as a historical marriage between the UN code set and a code set with a commercial concern (Dunn & Bradstreet).  The focus initially… 

Jan 15, 2012

Are you really a customer's of choice?

Within the context of the current financial crisis, the importance of sustaining critical supply chain relationships has received more attention than ever. Despite the return to a “buyer’s market” in… 

Jan 9, 2012

Small and Medium Suppliers as a Source of Innovation (and of Risk!)

I recently did a webinar on the topic of “Supplier Management: The Need of the Hour”, for a number of supply chain executives through the Zycus spend management series they… 

Sep 13, 2011

Facing the Quagmire of Accountable Care and Comparative Effectiveness

Attending the IDN Summit in Phoenix today, one wouldn’t know by the relaxed atmosphere at the beautiful Arizona Biltmore that there is significant tension in the air….until you sit down… 

Sep 1, 2011

$30B of Waste in Iraq….We're not in TCE Anymore Oliver…

The Wartime Contracting Report came out today and announced $30B in waste in Iraq, and focused on the fact that there was a lot of graft and corruption taking place.…