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Buyers Meeting Point attends many sales AND procurement webinars/webcasts. One of the interesting things about consistently reading content from quality sources is that you start to notice trends. It is amazing how often the same topics arise at the same time in different places. We use this blog as a way to help you stay on top of the major themes in procurement and supply chain management.
Webinar Notes: Building a Case for Managing Meeting Spend
I see this week's ISM event as being part of a recent increase in interest about the procurement of services. I’ve worked in this category and it is truly a beast all its own. They mentioned visibility in their event description, and although that is a common enough concept in procurement it is the whole deal with meetings spend. While all services projects are complicated due to the relationships in place, addressing meetings spend has its own sensitivities. Not only is it a relationship-heavy category, but the times when meetings need to be managed are usually of high importance and high visibility.
You can listen to an on demand version of the event here.
So, what do you call YOURSELF?
This week’s Wiki-Wednesday topic is supply management, and you can click here to connect to an excerpt from the article on that topic or to link back to the full page.
BMP's Notes on Collaborative Sourcing Webinar (Ariba/ISM)
This week I attended a webinar by Ariba and ISM on collaborative sourcing. And in this case, the collaboration ended up being not with the competition or others in the supply chain, but with between procurement and internal stakeholders. Not what I had thought (thanks a lot, Google. We'll talk later...) but still a valid topic and just as tricky.
The following are some of my notes on the webinar. Click here to connect to the archive.
Webinar Notes: ISM on Mitigating Supplier Risk
This week I attended ISM's webinar on mitigating supplier risk. The event recording can be viewed here.