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Vertical integration revisited
This weekend The Economist published a piece entitled Moving on up where they (partially at least) championed a return to Henry Fords vertically integrated supply chain model. Concluding, they offer,...
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Siemens Barbera Kux speaks out on Siemens supply chain challenges (and what...
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ran a piece titled “Siemens trennt sich von 74.000 Lieferanten” where Siemens Head of Supply Chain Management (and Chief Sustainability Officer) Barbera Kux really spoke...
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Public sector IT-procurement gone wild
No one in Sweden can have missed the headlines caused by the Swedish Social Security Agency and their recent IT disaster. As the project deteriorated, causing one headline after the other, the project...
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Supply chain fit key to performance excellence
That efficent supply chain management can provide a factual competitive edge has been one of the key components of the spend management marketing toolkit but there have been few studies that...
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7 out of 10 CPOs feel the pressure of managing risk
Spring finally kicked in with a vengeance in Stockholm this weekend and as always it’s accompanied by a number of sure to tell spring spend management signs. First, we’ve got the eProcure & Supply...
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Sure signs of summer: fraud invoices
A few weeks ago Ernst & Young unveiled a study entitled “Corruption or compliance: the 10th global fraud survey” in which Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation & Dispute Practice Service...
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Spend management meets high art
This weekend, Liljevalchs konsthall opens its door to the presumed summer smash art exhibition in Stockholm: IKEA at Liljevalchs. For those of you unfamiliar with Liljevalchs – it’s the premier public...
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Cloud computing sourcing
One topic that kept popping up at the recent IBX Purchasing Executive Summit was the transition of goods to services and the implications this has on purchasing. Take cloud computing for instance;...
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Asking the right questions – how to find weaknesses in your supply chain...
Despite some of the headlines (true or not) regarding the practices of IBM’s executive management, there are still some interestion material emerging from the big blue. In IBM Global Business...
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Can one engage the supplier base to lower supply chain risks
With many car manufacturers struggling with recalls and pointing the blame at their ailing supply chains this recent piece by Peter Hunter of HumanResourcesIQ (Root Cause of Toyota’s Failure: Employee...
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