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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, [...] For a number of years now, the business community has benefitted from the impact of Business to Business (B2B) markets. Their impact on the economy is evident in several ways: Transaction costs. Three cost areas are significantly reduced through the conduct of B2B e-commerce. First is the reduction of search costs, as buyers need not go through multiple [...] Over the last decade, I have steadily watched and participated in the growth of eCommerce. Like many Americans, I have moved from doing research on line and buying in a brick and mortar store to doing the majority of my shopping online. I regularly pull out my credit card will a small measure of trepidation and [...] On May 31, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights proposed a new rule recommending that patients have the right to ask for a report on who has accessed their medical records. The recommendation has been out for public comment since that time. A number of healthcare organizations including the Medical Group [...] At Defcon, I aquired a new tech hero. Defcon is all about finding vulnerabilities. The glory goes to the most creative and most damning hacks. I’m not condemning hackers. I think the world is more secure because of them. But it bothers me that all the glory goes to breaking in, but there is no glory [...] |
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