The July ISM-New York Report on Business: One Month at a Time https://t.co/o5Xo4xiw0f
Recommended Webinars November 11-15: CRM for Procurement, Operational P2P and a Direct Mail Renaissance
From Isolated Zero to Enterprise Hero: Best Practices for Managing Holistic Procurement Performance (AOP, Per Angusta, BMP) November 12th, 11am ET As an AOP Live session, this unscripted event will be more of a video chat than a webinar. No slides, no script – just your questions answered live by Pierre Lapree, founder of Per Angusta, and Jason Treida, founder and former COO of IASTA. When ...
Book Review: A Procurement Compendium
The biggest take away for me is how funny Peter is. And, more surprisingly, how funny procurement is. There are a lot of things we all should be laughing about. One of the chapters, titled “Cerebral Whimsy”, is such a treat. From Santa’s supply operation to Addicted Jim to “James Pond”, you’ll come away feeling lucky that you understand all of the inside jokes. Peter writes about procuremen...
Recommended Procurement Webinars November 4-8: Unlocking Working Capital and Reinventing Procurement
Using Digital Transformation to Unlock Working Capital in Your Supply Chain (Tradeshift) November 5 th at 2pm ET Here’s the funny thing about being a writer in any technical field: you get used to fighting spell/grammar check in a few common places. The best example I can think of is “spend”. IN procurement, spend is most commonly a noun. MS Word doesn’t like it, but it is. To most of the w...
The October ISM-New York Report on Business: Baby Steps in the Right Direction
Report Rundown In October, New York City purchasing managers expressed a more positive perspective than the clear pessimism seen in September, according to the survey taken by the Institute for Supply Management-New York. Current Business Conditions rose by 4.9 points to 47.7 in October, up from September's 40-month low of 42.8, but still not enough to reach the breakeven point of 50....
Why Your RFP Responses are Failing
A Short List of Big Problems with RFPs “But wait,” I hear you say, “if these suppliers are best-in-class, wouldn’t losing the RFP show how terrible they are?” This is potentially true. Critics of RFPs are quick to point out that the process: Kills differentiation. Responses are all geared towards the same direct questions, and the elements of your business that are unique may not stand out in this...
Trade Wars, Not So Easy?
From the point of view of the White House, trade wars might still generate a big win, but in the meantime, it has been very hard on companies with long supply chains that run through China or depend on aluminum and steel. The moves and countermoves by the U.S. and China, in particular, have rattled investors and in the worst case, could tip the global economy toward a recession. The research firm ...
