In my second article in this series, Aligning Procurement: People, Technology and Processes to Deliver Value, I left off with a comment about the skills that the new generation of procurement professionals needs to acquire: creative, scientific, and organizational....
A procurement world reader asked us: How can you measure supplier innovation with KPIs? The Holy Grail of supplier development is supplier innovation. The Hackett CPO Agenda identifies it as a critical development area in procurement. And out of all the critical...
It has been a tough year and half for the supply chain, as disruptions in the industry continue to come in waves, forcing many companies to step up in ways never seen before. To keep things moving, great leaders of the supply chain tapped into their ingenuity to...
Change causes conflict, it always has and always will. How you respond to that conflict, however, determines the rest of the story. Each company, team, and corporate culture is unique, which is why all organizations approach change differently. There’s arguably no...
