Buyer Analytics

The eight keys to transforming adversarial supplier relationships.

http://www.strategy-business.com/li/leadingideas/li00103?pg=all

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UPS: ‘We can handle all DHL’s business’ No ground or air-freight capacity upgrades will be needed to handle new business. DHL’s exit, declining volumes push prices up

http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA6617962.html?rssid=268

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If you don’t know about Filtrbox already, you should. In simple terms its like Google alerts on steroids, but really its more than that. Integrated monitoring of mainstream news, blogs, twitter and friend feed. Ability to search within your results and show/hide articles. Daily Briefing emails with noise control - using their FiltrRank scoring you can decide to only have articles sent to you from the most popular sites or that are very relevant

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Purchasing raises beat the averages. Companies are paying top dollar to purchasing professionals who can impact the business—even in a challenging economy.

http://www.purchasing.com/article/CA6616761.html?rssid=268

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