Procurement Insights

David Shillingford tagged me in his recent LinkedIn post. The tag comes with one major obligation: think critically, respond wisely. Unfortunately, LinkedIn limits the character count of comments, sometimes reducing a needed longer answer into a limited and insufficient soundbite. That is the reason for writing this post.

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The email arrived at 5:13 this morning.

I have been awarded Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, and I am now entitled to use the designatory letters FCIPS.

I want to say something about that, and then get back to work.

Fellowship is the highest grade of membership CIPS confers. It is not applied f...

The concept everyone is building committees around was the design brief for a defense procurement system twenty-eight years ago — running on technology that would be laughable today.

Here is a paragraph I published on 4 July 2007, in the seventh part of my Dangerous Supply Chain Myths series:

Motivated by the identification of the 2 commodity ch...

Double marginalization explains why deploying agents one function at a time can leave the enterprise worse off — with every agent performing correctly.

There is a stretch of the Rhine that tourists sail down for the castles. They are photographed from the deck as romantic ruins, and most people assume they were the country houses of the rich.

They were toll b...

Most of the curriculum depreciates as the models improve. The skill that appreciates is not on it.

David Shillingford