Supply Market Intelligence

Nov 16, 2013

Future of Procurement Study Available

I recently completed a study of 25 CPO’s, each providing their view of what procurement will look like in 2025.  You can download the full report at this link. Procurement… 

Oct 19, 2013

Emerging Issues for Procurement in Oil and Gas

This past week, I hosted a meeting with a small group of oil and gas procurement executives  in Houston to share thoughts on some of the major trends occurring in… 

Sep 18, 2013

Procurement Leaders Forum Part 2: Procurement's Role in Open Innovation

Steve Baggott, the leader of Procter and Gamble’s Connect+Develop open innovation program spoke at Procurement Leaders this morning, and shared the importance of changing views of working with suppliers. Steve… 

Sep 17, 2013

Insights From Procurement Leaders Conference Part 1 – Making HR Your Friend!

I am on the road this week, acting as Chair (e.g. “master of ceremonies”) for the Procurement Leaders Forum in the heart of Boston at Sixty State Street.  There were… 

Aug 22, 2013

Procurement needs to follow in the steps of marketing

A recent interview I conducted with a former Chief Procurement Officer who has worked for over 25 years in procurement in various industries captures what I believe is the true… 

Aug 18, 2013

Another Fall semester brings a new batch of 50 SCRC company projects…

As we go into our 2013 fall semester, the SCRC team is pulling together the list of project summaries from our 15 corporate partners.  This is indeed a busy time… 

Aug 1, 2013

Effective supply chain management through social networking: Guest Blog by Nicholas Moores

Today’s blog is a guest post by Nick Moores on social networking for supply chains.  Although this is a topic that is bandied about a great deal, Nick shares some… 

Mar 14, 2013

Thinking Differently About Procurement: The SCRC Meeting Theme on April 29-30, 2013

Our next SCRC meeting will focus on “The Future of Procurement”, and will be held on April 29-30, at the NC State University Club in Raleigh, NC.  We will be hosting… 

Feb 10, 2013

Controlling the extended supply chain: Horse Bolognese, anyone?

A recent article in the Guardian shows how uncontrollable supply chains can be.  Managing tier 2 suppliers, in this case, became problematic when supermarkets found that the beef they were… 

Jan 1, 2013

Handfield's Supply Chain Predictions for 2013

Well we made it through 2012, and it actually turned out to be a reasonably good year, in terms of supply chain news and events.  There were a few disasters…