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Deadweight, Sanity Checks and Beachheads: How to Save on EMC Storage

Spend Matters — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:01:05 GMT

Spend Matters welcomes another guest post from NPI, a spend management consultancy, focused on delivering savings in the areas of IT, telecom, transportation and energy. With 26 percent market share, EMC is the world's largest storage provider. As...

Spend Matters Afternoon Coffee

Spend Matters — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:01:05 GMT

Some thoughts from Thomas Kase: Bad vendors selections aren't only made by supply chain! Parents of autistic children feel duped by dog trainer -- [Thomas' commentary] To summarize, Pepsi's charity arm has/had an arrangement with an (apparently shad...

Fuel Cells Finally Showing Promise? � Part Two

MetalMiner — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:31:04 GMT

Continued from Part One. The Costliness of Catalysts To date, the use of PGM catalysts have made the up-front cost of fuel cells and the refurbishment of the devices over their life far too expensive...

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Global Trade, Supply Risk, Compliance: Essentials Every Sourcing Practitioner Should Know (Part 3)

Spend Matters — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:05 GMT

Click for the first and second posts in this series. Perhaps the most fundamental opportunity (and challenge) around trade compliance, supply chain risk, and getting to the next level of analysis to avoid unnecessary costs and risk is collaborati...

Fuel Cells Finally Showing Promise? � Part One

MetalMiner — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:31:04 GMT

Fuel cells are one of those technologies we have covered before, usually citing some manufacturer who is fan-faring a new technology purported to be game-changing for the cost structure of the...

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Procurement and Finance Collaboration: A Non-P2P Perspective (Part 1)

Spend Matters — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:31:06 GMT

Any time we hear about procurement and finance collaboration, the topic somehow involves purchase-to-pay (P2P) technology. Granted, budgeting, planning and savings implementation are also common joint procurement/finance collaboration memes that crop...

2012 Predictions and Planning: Sourcing and Beyond (A Webinar and Blog Series) -- Part 2

Spend Matters — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:31:06 GMT

Click here for the first part in this series. Last week, I took part in a Supply Chain Brain webinar with CombineNet exploring a range of predictions for sourcing and procurement in 2012 as well as how organizations can address them directly throu...

Silver Prices � Which Way Next?

MetalMiner — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:31:05 GMT

Like gold, the silver price has risen since the start of this year after hitting a one-year trough in December, leading some to suggest that silver is set for a rebound on the coattails of gold....

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Be Smart When Sourcing Legal�

Spend Matters — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:31:04 GMT

Spend Matters welcomes a post from Cyndi Joiner, Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting. A study of 200 American law firms revealed that 64% of respondents believe that the legal landscape went through a fundamental shift during t...

Spend Matters Afternoon Coffee

Spend Matters — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:01:04 GMT

Danny Ertel of Vantage Partners continues on with fee negotiation advice... Fee negotiations part 5: the importance of legitimacy -- So we come to part 5 in my continuing rant about fee negotiations. If you've stayed with me so far, you've seen me ...