This Spend Matters PRO series is based on commentary and opinions expressed by the following industry experts at the MetalMiner/Spend Matters Conflict Minerals EDGE event: […]
Risk Content
Commodity Price Management at BorgWarner Part 1: The Tip of the Iceberg in Supply Analytics
BorgWarner gave a terrific presentation at this year’s ISM annual conference regarding Commodity Price Risk Management that I thought I'd share. Borg Warner is a […]
Upstream Risk Mitigation and Logistics/Transit Routes
The following post is based on material contained in the MetalMiner report (available for free download): Conflict Minerals: Building Responsible Manufacturing Supply Chains. Join MetalMiner […]
Are Cloud, Network and BPO Partners Your Weakest Supply Chain Security Link?
Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters recently surfaced a link to a Financial Times article on outsourcing and cybercrime. Bob notes that there is an […]
Is a Dell Buyout a Threat to Enterprise Customers?
Spend Matters welcomes another guest post from Jeff Muscarella of NPI, a spend management consultancy focused on eliminating overspending on IT, telecom and shipping. If […]
Global Differences on Risk Management Priorities
Information in this post is based on the research and findings contained in the World Economic Forum Report: An Initiative of the Risk Response Network, […]
Cyprus and the EU: Procurement, Politics, and Economics
As a procurement organization, how would you like to meet all of your goals only to have them raised by another 30% in the final […]
Exploring Supply Chain Resilience: Top Global Supplier Risks
While few supply chains may ever be truly “anti-fragile,” to borrow a phrase coined by Nassim Taleb, there is much that can be done to […]
Sub-Saharan Africa – Spend Matters to Chair a Procurement Conference in Kenya
On Saturday evening, after my daughter's birthday party (she turns 11), I am hopping on a series of flights taking me to Nairobi, Kenya, arriving […]
The Value of Supplier Management and Traceability: Margins in the Check-Out Aisle
Even though supplier management and traceability is a topic that we’ve covered quite a bit recently from regulatory compliance angles (e.g., conflict minerals, supplier diversity, […]
Supply Risk: Learning From Purchasing’s Demise
I recently chatted with Charles Dominick, who gave a talk at Corporate United's Synergy event in Chicago. He recently published a thoughtful post on his […]
Supplier Relationship Management: Cost, Risk, and Value (Part 3)
In supplier relationship management (SRM) areas showing moderate or significant progress according to State of Flux's 2012 survey, groundwork-type or foundational elements dominate the top […]