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How to weather the manufacturing supply chain’s risk storm
June 28, 2021 |Nancy Clinton

While certain data point to a resurgence, nay boom, for the manufacturing industry this summer, the supply chain is currently brewing up a storm of disruptions that could set it back, according to the CEO of LeanDNA, Richard Lebovitz. As the manufacturing sector, the factories within it and their supply chains become ever more complex,…
Procurement in Practice: ‘It’s always the people at the end of the supply chain that get squeezed’
January 11, 2021 |Nancy Clinton

Spend Matters is running a series of interviews with senior procurement and supply chain practitioners to highlight and share common experiences with their peers. We are discussing their challenges, their thoughts on people, process and technology, and their concerns or hopes for the future, across many industries. The publishing industry, like all industries in recent…
2021 Procurement and Supply Chain Predictions from the market — Tradeshift
January 6, 2021 |Nancy Clinton

Last year at the end of December 2019, we ran a series of predictions about procurement and supply chain trends for 2020 from expert tech and service providers in the market. But who could have foreseen what happened in 2020! This year, the market again provides its predictions for the next 12 months and beyond,…
The CPO’s Conundrum (Part 4): Economic Instability- [PRO Content]
August 29, 2019 |Nick Heinzmann

In the first three installments of this Spend Matters PRO series (see Part 1A, Part 1B), we noted that a number of pressing issues are shaping procurement from the outside in, yet chief procurement officers (CPOs) are still primarily concerned with issues set by an inside-out agenda — that is, cost-cutting and supply assurance targets mandated by…
After EcoVadis’ Sustain 2019: How Its Offering Fits With Supplier Management, Risk Management Solutions (Part 2)- [PRO Content]
2019年3月21日|Jason Busch

Last week, I represented the Spend Matters analyst team at EcoVadis’ Sustain 2019 customer event in Paris. In between lessons on sustainable supply chains, vendor CSR ratings and French labor unions I never knew existed — thank goodness for British Airways when the Eurostar shuts down because a handful of customs workers at Gare du…
Trade War or No, Local Sourcing with Maker-to-User Model has Advantages
February 26, 2019 |Guest Contributor

Spend Matters welcomes this guest post from Jason Middleton, Ray Products vice president of sales and development. Our trade deficit with China surpassed $301 billion in 2018 — and it’s no mystery why. Thanks to cheap labor and fewer regulations there, it tends to be more cost-effective to have “Made in China” stamped on your…
Commodities Roundup: Palladium Shines, China Decreases Auto Tariff
December 21, 2018 |Fouad Egbaria

For the buyers and category managers out there, especially those of you deep in the weeds of buying and managing commodities, here’s a quick rundown of news and thoughts from particular commodity markets. From price movements to policy decisions, our MetalMiner editors scour the landscape for what matters. Here's what mattered this week.
Study: Conflict gold from Africa may be in U.S. markets, passing through major companies
November 6, 2018 |Kyra Senese

An October 2018 study released by a watchdog group that focuses on Africa has highlighted concerns that gold mined from conflict areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is making its way into international markets and becoming integrated in the supply chains of major U.S. companies. Documents reviewed and interviews carried out by The…
Direct Material Sourcing and Supplier Management Platforms (Part 2)- [Plus + Content]
October 12, 2018 |Jason Busch

在本系列的第一期中,我简述ced six distinct platform areas that manufacturers are making investments in as part of core efforts to drive more successful savings, efficiency, compliance, collaboration and supplier engagement programs. The first, design/engineering and sourcing enablement solutions, represents a new class of direct materials e-sourcing toolsets that attempt to…
South America’s Gold Supply Chain Poses Big Risks for Procurement, Report Says
October 9, 2018 |Taras Berezowsky

If your company sources and buys gold, then the message from some recent research is loud and clear: Watch your step in South America. The market there and its role in the global gold supply chain is a tremendous cause for corporate concern, according to a Thomson Reuters white paper. Evidently, the promise of huge…
Commodities Roundup: Excess Steel Capacity, Oil Prices and U.S.-China Trade
September 28, 2018 |Fouad Egbaria

For the buyers and category managers out there, especially those of you deep in the weeds of buying and managing commodities, here’s a quick rundown of news and thoughts from particular commodity markets. From price movements to policy decisions, our MetalMiner editors scour the landscape for what mattered this week.
How Can Procurement Find Savings When Commodity Prices Are Going Up, Up, Up?
September 27, 2018 |Spend Matters Team

Editor’s note: This is part of the Ask Spend Matters series, where readers send in their burning questions about procurement and supply chain. While going through questions that our readers have sent us, we came across one regarding how and where procurement practitioners can find savings when commodity prices are going up. The reader, a…

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Demystifying the role of technology in supply chain finance: Blockchain:Nagina Sawhneysaid : Hi, insightful article. It would be interesting to know and follow how block chain enable supply cha...

Procurement recruitment — Why is the tech talent pool so shallow?:Peter Smithsaid : Great article - just picking up on one of the many goodpoints here, for many years it has amazed me ...

Procurement in 2030: More change coming than ever before:Dinesh Lakshmanansaid : While we discuss on procurement, the Indirect and Direct gap is been increasing consistently the yea...

Accenture buys Xoomworks — beefing up procurement services like integration, digital transformation:Pierre Mitchellsaid : I wouldn't worry too much Peter. Supply markets will almost always find a way to innovate, and ther...

12-Step Program for Implementing an Effective E-Procurement Strategy:Tahiya kafeerosaid : Good...