2012 Metrics Procurement Sourcing 
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 15, 2022
In 2012, I placed the first alignment study in the field. In the supply chain team analysis, note the 21% gap between procurement and manufacturing teams, the 35% gap between sales and operations and the 21% gap between finance and operations. Organizational Alignment 2012. Functional Metrics. Organizational Alignment.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Last week, after booking an additional $1B in unexpected supplier costs in the third quarter, the CFO led the company’s focus on restructuring to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components and internal development of key technologies and capabilities.” What is the issue? These capabilities do not exist at Ford.
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Talking Logistics
MAY 8, 2013
California, for example, passed the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 , which went into effect in January 2012. On the federal government front, President Obama signed an Executive Order Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking In Persons In Federal Contracts on September 25, 2012.
Supply Chain View from the Field
APRIL 10, 2013
At the Coupa INSPIRE procurement conference in San Francisco this week, the Chief Procurement Officer of Coca Cola Consolidated, Patrick Hopkins, shared his views on the “4 Truths of Procurement”, and how he has operationalized his views through the deployment of Coupa procure to pay software. Data must be right.
Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 21, 2013
The most common reporting relationship in the supplier organization is to a leader of supply (focus on logistics, distribution, materials sourcing and customer service). The focus has been on sourcing and managed costs. Generalize procurement of materials. Published by Supply Chain Insights in November 2012.
Requis
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course. Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand.
ivalua
AUGUST 14, 2019
Much has been made in 2019 about the gap between the findings of procurement self-assessments and where each organization stands when they are evaluated against their peers using objective measures. Spend under management has been effectively flat since 2012, with procurement organizations averaging 63.2% in 2018 (a modest 8.7%
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