If you are a player in the Supply Chain industry - a manager, a business analyst, a leader in manufacturing, a strategic sourcing consultant or a spend analyst, a business intelligence technician or a supply chain guy - if you haven't read the book by Kirit Pandit and H Marmanis titled "Spend Analysis - The Winodow to Startegic Sourcing"- you are missing something. This book details everything that you need to know on Spend Analysis. It details out right from simple definitions to the steps on implementing Spend Management program, how different classification taxonomies work, what all reports one needs to look for, how to identify opportunities and what are different components of Spend analysis that makes it "real" on technology side. So it helps you to understand whether you need spend analysis - what it means, if you say yes - what all things you may want to look for to decide your own goal and then once you know goals how to make those real - in simple l...
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