New Top Tips Book Offers Something for Everyone

When you’re looking for top tips on supply management you wouldn’t expect ‘Hang Out With Losers’ and ‘Fire Your Best People’ to feature too heavily. You would, however, be wrong, because according to Procuri and Supply Excellence, these are just two of the approaches you should be using in the pursuit of excellence.

The two companies have just published their mini e-book entitled ‘The 100 Greatest Supply Management Tips of All Time’ on their new Top Supply Tips website. And as fellow ELP blogger Tim Minahan rightly points out in his announcement post, the tips found in the book are neither complex, nor require a big budget or support from top executives. An added bonus, Minahan adds, is that they also don’t take years to deploy.

The book - which has been put together following input from Supply Excellence’s readership and meetings with supply management teams around the globe - is, according to Minahan, “part of an ongoing project to foster the exchange of best practices and to elevate the supply management discipline.”

The 100 tips on offer range from #8 ‘Four is the magic number’, which says that at least four suppliers should be involved in every negotiation to maximise competition, to #18 ‘Recruit Strangers’, which calls for the hiring of supply managers with unconventional skills and experiences.

There’s something in there for everyone, so what are you waiting for? Go and find a loser to hang out with.