Sourcing Manager Gifts

"Are you sure this is how procurement challenges are resolved?"

No, I didn't know they were going to cut the office furniture budget in half.

Foreign Markets with Big Barriers

Cut Price

'With the increase in hacking, the I.T. department has proposed sealing all of our data in blister packs.'

Made in China

Economy

Manufacturing will take place in China...So what role does Europe have?...you borrow money to be the customer

'It's not surprising. The production department is in Spain, the warehouse is in Korea, the accounting division is in Bolivia, the board of directors is in Canada.'

"It's simple supply and demand. The shorter the supply, the more money we demand."

Supply Chain

Coronavirus: Consequences for the economy!

Orderly Conduct of Sales

Blowing dust off an order book.

"Procurement and their stakeholder journey down the procurement pathway... Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"

The Quotable Ben Franklin. To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. And not flying thy kite during thunderstorms might help, too!

Oh no ... Outsourcing

How Many It Takes

Low Hanging Fruit

"UK government aren’t budging boss. Sole supplier or not under the new procurement regulations our new contract has to have three KPIs..."

'In conclusion; our major contract expires tomorrow, we have no idea what we want, and no knowledge of the market, It is time to pass this across to the Procurement Team...'

Made in China.

"I can't tel you what an honor it is to be the keynote speaker at the Supply Chain management Seminar."

ONE MORNING WHILE GETTING DRESSED,

Export

"We've geared up our American company to provide PPE for our healthcare providers, and we need 'Made in the USA' tags to on 'em! Problem is, USA tags are all Made In China."

Bump in the road.

"Aren't you the old guy in purchasing whose decades of slavish devotion inspired us to replace you with a small army of sycophants?"

Rats leave a launching ship.

Watch overhead if you want to improve product delivery. Bridge financing could figure.

"I thought I'd be quids-in but I can't shift the bloody stuff."

'OK, what's the first thing we need to capture in our Job Safety Analysis?' 'Don't tick off TINY!'

Biblical Procurement Tales: Project Ark.

Every Friday lunchtime procurement managers would gather to boast of the size of bid documents they had received that week.

'And finally, there's option three, a classic business model that would reduce our marketing, supply-chain and production expenses by 85 percent!' '