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Procurement Technology: An Update from Spend Matters in Baltimore

NC State SCRC

Today I travelled to Baltimore to attend the ISM/Spend matters Global Procurement Tech Summit. I will be speaking on procurement analytics tomorrow, but got to attend a set of great sessions over the first half of the day. The first speaker was Anne Rung, Administrator from the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.

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Bait and Switch

Supply Chain Shaman

Source Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The article is written and the story is spun, but the solution offered is a supply-centric solution based on yesterday’s technology. User satisfaction with planning systems is low. Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore.

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Taming the Supply Chain. Will It Ever Be Social?

Supply Chain Shaman

Sentiment Analysis and Text Mining Tools offer promise, but the typical social listening tools used in digital marketing like Coremetrics and Radian6 are grossly inadequate. These tools only answer the questions that we know to ask. The ends of the supply chain–both in customer and procurement– are fragile.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I believed that the first generation of supply chain systems would improve operations to a greater degree than actually happened. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear.

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Maryland Department of General Services Announces eMaryland Marketplace Advantage Goes Live

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Maryland Department of General Services Office of State Procurement launches new e-procurement system. BALTIMORE, MD – The Maryland Department of General Services today announced the Office of State Procurement launched the state’s new e-procurement system eMaryland Marketplace Advantage (eMMA).

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database. Ask your data scientists to help you augment existing systems.