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Interview on Buyer’s Meeting Point BlogTalk Radio: Creating Procurement Value is a Lot of Work!

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Gerard Chick and I were recently interviewed by Kelly Barner on the Buyer’s Meeting Point Blog Talk Radio yesterday, and this was posted on their site for any interested parties to view. Procurement is therefore about really being more commercial and understanding the busienss…the business of procurement is business!

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Review of “Procurement Value Proposition” misses the point…ISO “Mr. Impossible”!

Supply Chain View from the Field

A recent review by Peter Smith of my new book , “The Procurement Value Proposition”, co-authored with Gerard Chick, provides some solid support for the message Gerard and I were seeking to develop. We need to be up to the challenge of creating the “impossibly talentedprocurement professionals of the future.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

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Yung-Yun’s algorithm scanned tens of thousands of targeted news and company reports to develop the ratings in each category. Supply Market Intelligence Enables Improved Ability to Control Inflation. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. chemicals, resins, IT providers).