Industry Calendar
Welcome to a 30-minute counterintuitive debate between husband-wife team Jason Busch, Executive Editor of Spend Matters and Lisa Reisman, Executive Editor of MetalMiner, who promise to cover the following topics:
- Why sourcing on the spot market is actually speculative behavior and therefore risky
- Why using indexes when sourcing commodities is often just plain bad strategy
- Whether or not sourcing optimization actually creates benefits – it seems like a software led “problem” to create demand for technology
What’s in it for you?
- An interesting argument against conventional wisdom – turn some unconventional practices into profit
- An alternative viewpoint on your direct material commodity spend
- How to wring out every possible bit of value from some well-accepted “best practices”