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Disruptive Strategy: Ethical Sourcing
Any principled sourcing manager, if asked, should raise Ethical Sourcing to be a top priority.…
Professor Rosling is an interesting fellow
Professor Hans Rosling is an interesting fellow. In his documentary Don’t Panic: How to End…
Predicting Supplier Failure
The problem of identifying suppliers with a high risk of failure is becoming more serious…
Catastrophic Risk Prevention
Analyze financial health to prevent catastrophic risk in your supply chain With increasing occurrences of…
8 Supply Chain Design Rules for Engineers
In this article, I summarize some points from a lecture that I gave at Hong…
Disregard Price Benchmarking at Your Own Risk
Not benchmarking your electronic component spend? If so, continue to disregard this critical diagnostic at…
Purchasing: The Status Quo Will Cost You
I am surprised by the number of supply chain and purchasing professionals that use the…
Benchmarking – Tried & True. What about your component spend?
Over the 4 years since our firm launched our electronic component benchmarking tool set, we’ve…
Market Price Normalization Improves Competitiveness
When we assess a new client’s spending against market pricing, we usually see a distribution…
