Return on Assets

  • Throwback Thursday: 10 for 2010: ROA – Areas to Improve Your Returns

    February 13, 2020

    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... Read more

  • ROA – Yes, Suppliers Are Assets

    December 22, 2010

    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... Read more

  • ROA – Software (Maintenance & Support)

    December 20, 2010

    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... Read more

  • ROA – Now Showing: “The Return of eProcurement”

    December 17, 2010

    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... Read more

  • ROA – Return on Human Capital

    December 15, 2010

    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... Read more

  • ROA – Inventory

    December 9, 2010

    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,... Read more

  • ROA – Capital Machinery and Equipment

    December 3, 2010

    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... Read more

  • Return on Assets (ROA)

    November 30, 2010

    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... Read more

  • 10 for 2010: ROA – Areas to Improve Your Returns

    February 1, 2010

    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... Read more