In my last blog, I talked about how Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) created an Open Technical dictionary based on the federal catalog system. This technical ontology can be used to describe items that you make, or that you buy. The question now becomes—why do should we care. What do I get out of data [...]
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In 1999, the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) was founded as an international not for profit membership association with a mission to research, develop and promote better quality data for use in electronic commerce. Soon after formation, ECCMA director Peter Benson discovered that the Department of Defense had been doing data standardization work to support military [...] As with all of government, the Department of Defense is facing slimmer budgets and looking at ways to save money. Basically as Ashton Carter, Deputy Secretary, Department of Defense, put it: “To do more, without more.” In December 2010, John Young, a senior fellow at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and a former U.S. undersecretary of defense [...] There has been an ongoing discussion in Linked-In about why some procurement saving initiatives or strategic sourcing plans fail to realize the savings they are projected to have. The comments to the questions have revealed a few likely reasons so many projects fail. I work primarily with government agency buying groups, but the following comments pertain [...] Acuity (Consultants) Ltd Executive Interm Manager and ACUITY Director, Tony Colwell’s Blog post this week titled 5 Models for Procurement Organisation, discusses the differences in the definition between Procurement and Purchasing. It also outlines the different types of procurement models. There are three basic models for procurement, any others being a combination of these three: Local – [...] As is the case with commercial shoppers, government buyers can also benefit in a number of ways from shopping online. 1. Convenience and time saving From the Contracting Officer’s perspective – writing a general purpose contract one time and letting buyers make purchase orders against that contract saves a lot of time. A number of federal agencies have [...] I saw a discussion recently on Linked-In on why companies are turning toward having a few preferred suppliers rather than selecting items on price alone. This strategy is known as Strategic Sourcing. The question spurred quite a discussion. Here are some of the key points. Price alone has nothing to do with material standards, product quality, or [...] There are a number of arguable benefits to the consumer of online shopping verses traditional brick and mortar stores. 1. Convenience and time saving – Shopping on the Internet can save time. A consumer does not have to travel to a store or adjust his schedule around the store’s hours. No longer does a consumer have [...] Over the last 15 years, eCommerce has fundamentally changed the way we buy things. Before the advent of eCommerce, individuals and businesses looking to purchase items were forced to either shop from store to store, or search through stacks of paper catalogs and then call the merchant to order. Now you can sit at a computer in [...] While re-arranging my office space, I came across a book on government supply chain management. In 2004, the Honorable Jacques S. Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and Robert E. Luby Jr., Vice President, Supply Chain Management at IBM published a book titled: Transforming Government Supply Chain Management. In the book, [...] |
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