Throwback Thursday: 10 for 2010: ROA – Areas to Improve Your Returns
Editor’s Note: As we look back over the last decade, we thought it’d be fun to look at some of the big themes we wrote about ten years ago. How…
ROA – Yes, Suppliers Are Assets
Short week, short article: How many procurement departments treat their suppliers like assets? While I believe that many procurement groups act like they “own” their suppliers, based upon the terms…
ROA – Software (Maintenance & Support)
In this Return on Assets series, we have previously discussed how improving the usage of sourcing/procurement software can improve your returns (here and here). Yes, software can be a huge…
ROA – Now Showing: “The Return of eProcurement”
Our ROA (Return on Assets) series continues... In the movie business, “Returns” can mean big "returns" at the box office – Just ask the King or the Jedi or two…
ROA – Return on Human Capital
If Streisand is correct in saying that “people who need people are the luckiest people in the world.” I want to go to Vegas with an entourage of Chief Procurement…
ROA – Inventory
Our original Return on Assets (“ROA”) article generally used a literal definition of assets (as opposed to an accounting one) - assets: things of value. Improving ROA is then asking,…
ROA – Capital Machinery and Equipment
Continuing the discussion of increasing your ROA or Return on Assets – this article will look at how procurement can improve the ROA on capital equipment. While increasing the utilization…
Return on Assets (ROA)
On the eve of the last month of our first year at CPO Rising and during a return trip home from a November vacation, it seems to be the right…
10 for 2010: ROA – Areas to Improve Your Returns
If the US government could collect a dollar for every article, report, or presentation with a “Doing More with Less” theme created in recent times, its deficit issues might be…