- 1. Semiconductor Market with Partstack
- (News)
- Partstack is a powerful tool that gives users access to the semiconductor market's most comprehensive catalog of component pricing and part availability data from a curated “stack” of diverse global suppliers. ...
- 2. Executives From Google and eBay Join GS1 US Board of Governors
- (News)
- ... and retail supply chains as we refine our strategy and serve the evolving needs of industry.” Charles Schafer leads engineering for Google’s catalog of product data, where he has worked on a variety ...
- 3. Washington Begins VPP Process
- (News)
- According to Washington Technology, the General Services Administration has started phase 1 of their verified products portal. The General Services Administration recently issued an RFI regarding their ...
- 4. US Feds Want Supply Chain Infrastructure Security
- (Technology)
- ... issues that are faced currently. These issues include counterfeit parts, economic risks and cyber vulnerabilities. By cataloging these threats, federal leaders can use the information to evaluate the security ...
- 5. P2P 101
- (News)
- eProcurement is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days, but what does it really encompass? It's a broad concept that fortunately the folks at Spend Matters have done a great job taking apart for ...
- 6. Whither the Supplier Catalog?
- (News)
- Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell of Spend Matters are duking it out on the topic of catalog use in procurement. In 2 recent posts on the site, we learn the pro and con arguments as well as alternatives ...
- 7. Arguing About Catalogs in Procurement
- (News)
- I posted the link to an article earlier in the week about catalog use in the procurement process. Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell at Spend Matters have followed up with a series of pro's and con's on the ...
- 8. Catalogs in the eCommerce Age
- (News)
- Those of us who have dealt with supplier catalogs in the age of ecommerce probably have an immediate answer to Jason Busch's question about whether to kill them completely.However, they have their place ...
- 9. Applying Lean to MRO
- (News)
- MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) purchasing is one area of procurement that consistently flies under the radar. Might it be a good target for process improvement and cost reduction?Kevin Tacek ...
- 10. A New Home for Google+
- (Management)
- ... to provide EDI integration, translation services, onboarding assistance, 3pl services, etc. I can also envision extensive cataloging services that democratize the dissemination of wholesale, retail, and ...
- 11. Key Questions About IoT
- (News)
- There's so much hype and blue-sky thinking surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) that it's helpful to take a step back to look at the basics. Several performance and management questions are still floating ...
- 12. Retail by the App
- (Retail)
- ... Certainly there are plenty of options for product catalog systems that integrate with supplier updates but there is still a lack of standardization in the X12 spec. The recent update of the spec provides ...
- 13. Beware the Shopper
- (Retail)
- ... searches. But smaller brands and products struggle to be represented. That leaves their product information in the hands of their retailers that publish product catalogs and consumers who write reviews ...
- 14. Building a Buying Engine
- (News)
- How do you start to build your own guided buying engine? Well, Pierre Mitchell from the Spend Matters group has some good ideas.He provides the basics in a recent article on their site, and the benefits ...
- 15. The Unnecessary Costs Of EDI Document Errors
- (EDI)
- ... originated from neglected updates to product information. This means the catalogues being referred to when purchase orders are being created have not been updated with the suppliers’ current product information. ...
- 16. IBM and B2B
- (News)
- In an article on the My Purchasing Center site, John Hall looks at how IBM is shaking up the B2B ecommerce market. Although the B2B market is huge, it's always lagged behind B2C technologically.IBM hopes ...
- 17. The Hub and Spoke Procurement Model
- (News)
- Procurement is accelerating its efforts to provide greater value to their business partners. They're not just the transaction processors, folks.In a Spend Matters article, Diptarup Chakraborti explains ...
- 18. SAP & eBay
- (News)
- SAP's recently announced partnership with eBay gives the folks at Spend Matters something interesting to ponder. SAP continues to add functionality in an attempt to shore up their eprocurement offering.Is ...
- 19. Logistics at the Local Level - on a National Scale
- (Logistics)
- ... how close they are to filling up the 4 cubic feet and 45 pound limit. But looking at just what was required in order to make that work, anyone involved with a digital catalog knows that it only takes fairly ...
- 20. Omnichannel Nirvana
- (Retail)
- ... catalog, and online. They see no line between the different delivery channels. A common expectation is that they can place an order online and pick the item up at the store. In fact, the report says that ...
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