This presentation from Vantage Partners provides recommendations for assessing and developing talent for your sourcing and supply chain organizations.
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This article provides five core concerns in stakeholder engagement, including a useful framework for approaching your stakeholders and helpful language and approaches. The author examines "hot...
Supplier relationship management (SRM) continues to be a major focus within the procurement and supply chain community and on the strategic agenda of many C-suite executives. As companies refine...
In business, we are negotiating every day. Whether negotiating over contracts and sales, negotiating internally over resources, or getting buy-in for a new project, it is hard to find a business...
Without effective stakeholder engagement, all the sourcing or supplier management best practices and tools in the world don't help us select the right suppliers, negotiate the right terms, deliver...
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research | Vantage Partners
Procurement organizations can only make so much progress by relying on senior management to require centralized...
The 2014 Vantage Partners Supplier Relationship Management study is a global benchmarking study of SRM best practices and provides new insights into which specific SRM practices deliver the...
Danny Ertel, Partner, Vantage Partners LLC
Corporate functions that support relationships with suppliers and service providers – including Project Management Offices,...
Expect the unexpected from a panel of experienced CPOs as they discuss what it takes to meet and exceed the expectations of the business, and to engage suppliers to solve real problems and add...
Only a few years ago, supplier relationship management (SRM) was generally thought of as a software tool. But true SRM entails much more than purchasing new software. Done right, it’s a systematic...