What Is This Job Really?

Author: Julienne B. Ryan, Principal at J. Ryan Partners Editor’s note: This article is part of the MyPurchasingCenter content archive. It was originally published in 2015 and appears here without revision. Probably not in many interviews. That’s probably why your inner voice is probably shouting that they want someone to “give it to you straight” so you can have a sense of reality. It m...

By MyPurchasingCenter

Posted in MyPurchasingCenter on 16 September 2020

Recommended Webinars September 14-18: Post-Crisis Procurement, Customer-Driven Digitalization, Food Supply Chains

If you are planning your webinar schedule beyond this week, I recommend “How Procurement Can Build Supply Chain Resilience,” an AOP Live session from Source Day, NetSuite, and Art of Procurement on September 29th at 12n ET. BTW: If you haven’t already, sign up for our mailing list to be sure you get my weekly recommendations in your inbox each Monday. 2021: Post-Crisis Procurement (Ivalua, ...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Weekly Event Recommendations on 14 September 2020

Bad Buying – Organizational Competence is Key to Avoiding It

For many years, I’ve wanted to write a book that was fundamentally about procurement, but would appeal to a wider business audience, rather than just our core professional community. My inspiration behind the Bad Buying idea was basically that everyone likes reading about things going wrong! Many of the case studies I’ve got in the book are genuinely fascinating, sometimes jaw-dropping and occasio...

By Peter Smith

Posted in Guest Posts on 09 September 2020

Book Review: The Technology Procurement Handbook

The Technology Procurement Handbook: A Practical Guide to Digital Buying opens with a preface by author Sergii Dovgalenko. The very first sentence of that preface asks a simple question: “Why would we dedicate the entire book to technology procurement?” He asks this without a hint of sarcasm, and then goes on to make the argument that will be supported and made actionable by the rest of the b...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Book Reviews on 03 September 2020

The August 2020 ISM-New York Report on Business: Not July, But Still an Improvement

Report Rundown In August, New York City purchasing managers reported a similar trend in Current Business Conditions, Employment, and Current Revenues - a drop from July, but the second highest levels marked since February of 2020. New York Metro Current Business Conditions gave up most of the improvement seen in July and dropped back below the breakeven point, falling 10.6 points to 42.9 in...

By Kelly Barner

Posted in Procurement on 02 September 2020

Hail to XaaS!

Then we outsourced the spare part management process – sold our existing inventories, let providers manage stock levels and trigger replenishment, take care of out- and inbound logistics. That was an example of the business process outsourcing. Later on, we outsourced the mobile network support to a global OEM. That was a genuine managed service-driven by quality and availability SLAs and orchestr...

By Sergii Dovgalenko

Posted in Guest Posts on 01 September 2020

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