To help managers move forward on strategic supplier relationship management, a recently article on Supply Chain Management Review integrated by Marc Day, Greg Magnan, Mark Webb and Jon Hughes listed 10-point agenda for actions:

Current situation.
Baselining existing levels of involvement, practices, and value delivered from supplier management provides a platform for subsequent improvement activities and a […]

From Procurement blog: Investors may have questioned whether the frantic pace of the Beijing Olympics could proceed a slowdown in China’s economy, but at least one leading figure believes that such claims are wide of the mark.
In fact, speaking in today’s Financial Times, Jing Ulrich, China Equities at JP Morgan, reckons that the amount of […]

Every year, Purchasing magazine runs a survey to its readers on their relationships with distributors.  In recent years, Purchasing professionals have changed their thinking about distribution and supplier performance. 
Buyers used to look at the right product delivered on time at a competitive price from the distributors, now they want more. They give more weight to availability and total […]