IPROCUREMENT

Note: in this report SCM refers to Ought to Price Modeling (and not to Supply Chain Management) The subjects I write about on this weblog will be about Provide Chain Management, Procurement and other connected topics. In my prior post I wrote something about the expense-viewpoint on procurement. Portion of the article was about Ought [...]

As ‘costs’ are a central topic in my previous content articles and could also be critical in the coming articles, I thought it might be helpful to describe some items about fees, how fees are composed and how charges are construct up in the provide chain. Again, it will not be rocket-science but it will [...]

How to use the outcome of a should cost model (the should cost price) Although I only discussed the should cost model method based on industrial averages, I thought it might be interesting to write a piece about what one can do when you have calculated the should cost price of a product.So, once you [...]

Exciting post of Steve Hall on the procurement weblog about the altering nature of buyer-supplier relationship. Some comments on a point he suggests: Better pricing transparency: eSourcing and procurement’s intrepid scrutiny into nonetheless-cloaked categories are bringing raising cost transparency. International trading networks and on the web communities will take this up a notch, further decreasing [...]

When I saw a report of Accenture (2011) I got triggered to write this text. Why? Effectively Accenture says the correct thing when they are stating that Complete Expense of Ownership (TCO) designs are well accepted these days. It continues to argue that these days, procurement is far more and far more focusing on Complete [...]