Managing the ethical risks of sourcing from emerging economies
Share| Emerging markets can be a sustainable source of wealth or a significant risk to your entire business, writes Paul Wenman of SourceAsia. Emerging markets can be a sustainable source of wealth or...
View ArticleManaging the ethical risks of sourcing from emerging economies
Share| Emerging markets can be a sustainable source of wealth or a significant risk to your entire business, writes Paul Wenman of SourceAsia. Emerging markets can be a sustainable source of wealth or...
View ArticleSupply chain agility: Strategic sourcing and the fertile ground beyond cost...
Share| Strategic sourcing has been around for decades and it has already been suggested that it is time to re-examine what it comprises. The question, then, is how to define strategic sourcing for the...
View ArticleWhen Sourcing Goes Wrong Part II
Share|Editor’s Note: Today’s post is from Dick Locke, Sourcing Innovation’s resident expert on International Sourcing and Procurement. (His previous guest posts are still archived.) Jon Stewart said it...
View ArticleA Sourcing Innovation Prediction for 2013, Part I
Share|A variant of the following conversation between a CEO and a CFO will happen in more than one Global 3000 firm this year: Setting: The CEO, who has just arrived back from his most recent...
View ArticleA Sourcing Innovation Prediction for 2013, Part II
Share|Setting: It’s been two days. The CEO has been in constant meetings with Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Public Relations to try and figure out if there’s any way to avoid crucifixation in the...
View ArticleA Sourcing Innovation Prediction for 2013, Part III
Share|Will it be the supplier’s fault that your company might be one of the companies filing for bankruptcy this year? After all, the supplier didn’t communicate any issues as per their contract,...
View ArticleA Sourcing Innovation Prediction for 2013, Part IV
Share|The answer is that the blame lies entirely with … One party, but before SI reveals the answer, let’s shed some more light on the situation. It turns out another chance occurrence of a number of...
View ArticleA Sourcing Innovation Prediction for 2013, Part IV
Share|The blame rests solely with the company and all companies who believe that payment terms of 200 days are reasonable! Governments should not only go to war over this atrocity, but should fine and...
View ArticleSourcing Innovation’s Big Prediction for 2013, A Summary
Share|Over the past week, Sourcing Innovation has revealed its big prediction for 2013. In particular, it predicted that a variant of the conversation detailed in Parts I and II between a CEO and a CFO...
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