Free Money (Details Inside)
With interest rates hovering near their all-time lows, finding a good yield on an enterprise’s cash has been all but impossible for the past few years. Things have gotten so…
The Dog Days
With apologies to our growing contingent of Chief Procurement Officers and other readers based in the southern hemisphere who are hip-deep into winter – please set a reminder in your…
Search & Engage: Ron Carcamo, Yahoo!’s CPO (Pt. 2)
Last week, we provided a discussion on embedding procurement within the business. Yesterday, in Part One of this CPO Case Study, we introduced a CPO who’s gone and done it…
“We have no specific procurement goals.”
The title of this article was the response I received to the question “How does your CFO measure your performance?” that I posed to the director of procurement for a…
CFO-CPO Relations: A Work in Progress
As someone who has worked for many years in both finance and supply management, I have always found the relationship between the CPO and the CFO (and their departments) to…