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Or…only surprising that it took this long. Found this link via the good folks over at Procurement Leaders. Seems that Cypress Semiconductor, a decent sized company with very useful product, has … more →

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Not surprising

Poster to be named later wrote 6 months ago: Or…only surprising that it took this long. Found this link via the good folks over at Procurem … more →

Tags: The Company, Negotiation, Value of Procurement, Conventions, Politics, Drive a hard bargain, The Client, Procurement, purchasing

The Rise of IP Aggregators — 1 comment

Gregg Lallier wrote 8 months ago: There’s been an interesting discussion taking place over at TheDeal.com with Steven Hoffman, C … more →

Tags: Intellectual Property, technology, Aggregators, infringement, Intellectual Ventures, ThinkFire, Trollers

Open source procurement, housing and the optimisation bake-off

hudgeon wrote 9 months ago: Open source procurement 21:36:06: “The Strategic Sourceror: Government Goes Open Source … more →

Tags: Vendor Management, Open source procurement, US Housing Crisis, Risk, stability, Startup, Equity, Cloud Computing, incentives

There's always someone out for a buck

Poster to be named later wrote 10 months ago: I was appalled today to read a brief article in Federal Computer Week regarding the use of protests … more →

Tags: Doomsville, Negotiation, finger pointing, Value of Procurement, disapproving boss, Politics, Procurement, purchasing, Legal Woes

How can we help?

Poster to be named later wrote 10 months ago: Given the nausea inducing roller coaster economy that ended 2008, and an outlook that isn’t mu … more →

Tags: The Company, Doomsville, Procurement Cycle, Negotiation, Value of Procurement, rogue spend, Politics, Drive a hard bargain, Procurement

Gooooooal! — 2 comments

Poster to be named later wrote 11 months ago: Ok, here we are, first day back at work and staring down the barrel of 2009. That’s when you, … more →

Tags: The Company, Doomsville, Negotiation, Value of Procurement, disapproving boss, Drive a hard bargain, Procurement, purchasing, MRO Procurement

Where simplicity meets tenacity

Poster to be named later wrote 1 year ago: That’s where you’ll find Procurement. Was talking to a coworker today. Her team manages … more →

Tags: truth is stranger than..., Doomsville, Value of Procurement, Procurement, purchasing, MRO Procurement, On The Move, contract terms, Gut it out!

I have good news and I have bad news.

Poster to be named later wrote 1 year ago: Which do you want first? This what was on my mind as I was sending out notifications today. Notifica … more →

Tags: Value of Procurement, Politics, Procurement, purchasing, MRO Procurement, Mentoring, Sourcing, it's all semantics, Documents

Just going to have to quote directly…

Poster to be named later wrote 1 year ago: From the “You can’t make this up” files. An actual quote from an actual potential … more →

Tags: sales-weasels, truth is stranger than..., Negotiation, Value of Procurement, disapproving boss, Drive a hard bargain, Procurement, purchasing, MRO Procurement

Let 'em down easy

Poster to be named later wrote 1 year ago: I’m in the home stretch of an RFx selection, and of course, this gets me thinking about the no … more →

Tags: sales-weasels, The Company, Value of Procurement, Procurement, purchasing, MRO Procurement, Mentoring, Sourcing, it's all semantics

Is there a difference?

Poster to be named later wrote 1 year ago: I had occasion yesterday to visit with a counterpart at a local company not too far away from The Co … more →

Tags: The Company, Negotiation, Value of Procurement, buzzword bingo, Procurement, purchasing, MRO Procurement, Sourcing, it's all semantics

What's the deadline?

Poster to be named later wrote 1 year ago: Rules are made for a reason, right? In this crazy life, it seems people *love* to interpret rules to … more →

Tags: truth is stranger than..., finger pointing, Procurement, purchasing, MRO Procurement, By the Numbers, contract terms, DEADLINES