Enterprise Performance Management - Data is First Priority

Purchasing Magazine, Bristlecone and SAP getting together to bring you very good discussion on supplier risk management. Webinar will be held on June 24, 2 to 3 PM eastern Time, USA. Contributors are - Paul Teague from Purchasing magazine , Jason Buch from spendmatters , Naresh Hingorani from Bristlecone - Supply chain leader company and Padmini Ranganathan from SAP. As we always talk about spend visibility, data issues, strategic sourcing - these distinguised speakers will bring out more strategic views to the table on how all this can be achieved to analyze your business risks better, upfront. You can register for event by accessing this link and register See you there.

This is the series that I would like to publish over this week - the big strategic confusion. The confusion within the industry managers, sourcing and procurement professionals and IT managers who deal with these systems. The confusion on "yes we want to save, we want to start a strategic plan, an approach to save money in longer term - but what is that plan? what should I look into? How to start, what to start, whom to approach, who are the vendors - what do I need at the end of the day" I know this is inherent confusion for customers as well as providers. As customers doesnt know what they need as there are too many service providers in different layers of the pyramid - including nische as well as end to end, service providers are also in a confusion as to what should they provide? to whom they should approach, should it be overall package on end to end solution or just one services on premium rates. This I call big Strategic confusion. So what is the industry space we are...

Recently I had a blog conversation with Phil Fersht from AMR research Supply Management BPO on the verge of overheating He was really having a good point on how the overall supply chain management market is heating up in a BPO space. More and more companies are transferring their supply chain jobs to offshore locations just like a IT support jobs and when there is no real process strengthning the things are failing down the line. He has a valid point there. In a bad time like this people may think that by just moving a job to offshore will save them money what they want right now. But when the job function is tighly coupled with the business process - if companies do not really look into changing the technology, look into the change within, just offshoring will add to the mess rather than helping out.