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Sourcing Innovation: Managing Indirect Spend: An In-Depth Review, Part III
In our last post, which ended the review of Part II of Managing Indirect Spend, a new book by William (Bill) Dorn and Joe Payne of Source One that takes you on an excellent adventure through the world of indirect sourcing (that they have been living in for the past two decades, well before
Sourcing Innovation: Managing Indirect Spend: An In-Depth Review, Part II.1
In Part I we began our review of Managing Indirect Spend, a new book by Joe Payne and William (Bill) Dorn of Source One that is the culmination of everything they have learned while doing nothing but Strategic Sourcing, primarily on Indirect Spend, since 1992 -- before it was cool. And as SI noted
Sourcing Innovation: Managing Indirect Spend: An In-Depth Review, Part I.3
In Parts I.1 and I.2 we began our review of Managing Indirect Spend, a new book by Joe Payne and William (Bill) Dorn of Source One that is the culmination of everything they have learned while doing nothing but Strategic Sourcing, primarily on Indirect Spend, since 1992 -- before it was cool. And
Sourcing Innovation: Managing Indirect Spend: An In-Depth Review, Part I.2
In Part I.1 we began our review of Managing Indirect Spend, a new book by Joe Payne and William (Bill) Dorn of Source One that is the culmination of everything they have learned while doing nothing but Strategic Sourcing, primarily on Indirect Spend, since 1992 -- before it was cool. And as SI
Sourcing Innovation: How To Increase Spend Compliance
A recent item over on the CPO Agenda addressed How to Increase Spend Compliance because, as we all know, procurement organizations still face opposition to initiatives to channel indirect spend through preferred suppliers. The article chronicled advice from Carrie Ericson, VP of Procurement and
Sourcing Innovation: How Do You Achieve Indirect Procurement Success?
As per this morning's post on Common Challenges of Indirect Procurement, often the best way is to start with better technology and better processes, beginning with spend analysis. If the organization can quickly identify which categories will yield sufficient savings to make a sourcing project
Sourcing Innovation: Common Challenges of Indirect Procurement
A recent article on How to Leverage Outsourcing over on Efficient Purchasing did a good job of summarizing the common challenges of indirect procurement across sectors and industries. Regardless of what industry your organization is in, chances are it has many of the following challenges, as
Sourcing Innovation: Want Savings? Stop Ignoring Indirect Spend!
Procurement leaders recently summarized a new study by A.T. Kearny that found that CPOs [are] slow to focus on indirect categories such as IT, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities Management, and MRO. This is worrying when you consider that not only do some of these categories represent an
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