Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals

Jeanette Jones (MLS) has over 20 years experience providing corporate business and strategic sourcing research services and is the founder of Cottrill Research, a provider of supply market intelligence research services. She has established libraries with research functions for Arthur Andersen and the IT Vendor Management Group at Bank One (JP Morgan Chase) and provided research services for the Strategic Sourcing Group at Wachovia. She has served as an adjunct professor at Ohio Dominican University where she taught a Special Libraries class for the Library and Information Sciences Department. She has also taught research and information literacy skills to students at Collin College and College of Southern Nevada and has authored detailed research guides covering the subject areas of business, supply chain management, and hotel/casino management. She currently maintains the Cottrill Research Blog, which provides news and analysis about the latest research and information resource offerings for procurement professionals.Kelly Barner (MLS) is the Managing Editor of Buyers Meeting Point, an online resource for procurement and purchasing professionals, and has over a decade of experience working in procurement and supply chain. Her unique perspective on supply management is based on her time as a practitioner, a consultant at a solution provider, and now as an independent thought leader. Ms. Barner is a popular and regular guest content contributor to publications and blogs such as Procurement Insights, the American Purchasing Society Journal, the eSourcing Forum, and ThomasNet's IMT Procurement Journal. Since 2011 she has delivered a weekly procurement Internet radio update that covers the coming week's events and a guest soundbite with editorial commentary. Ms. Barner has her MBA from Babson College, an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College, and a BA in English and History from Clark University. In 2012, 2013 and 2014 she was awarded a Provider Pro to Know designation by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine, and in 2013 she was also recognized as one of 28 Top Female Supply Chain Executives.

• Part IChapter 1: Overview of Supply Market IntelligenceChapter 2: Supply Market Intelligence as Part of the Procurement 'System'Chapter 3: Supply Market Intelligence Creation ProcessChapter 4: Supply Market Intelligence Research TacticsChapter 5: The Business Case for Supply Market IntelligenceChapter 6: Quality AssurancePart IIChapter 7: Research Resources OverviewChapter 8: Supplier Identification (Not Industry Specific))Chapter 9: Supplier Research, Diligence, and MonitoringChapter 10: Industry and Market ResearchChapter 11: Procurement Best Practices and Operations BenchmarkingChapter 12: Procurement Service Provider DirectoriesChapter 13: Consulting FirmsChapter 14: Procurement Associations and OrganizationsChapter 15: Procurement Websites, Networks and CommunitiesChapter 16: Procurement Online and Print Magazines and JournalsChapter 17: Procurement BlogsChapter 18: Procurement Dictionaries and GlossariesChapter 19: Country/Geopolitical RiskChapter 20: Commodities Pricing - All Commodity InclusiveChapter 21: AgricultureChapter 22: ChemicalsChapter 23: EnergyChapter 24: MetalsChapter 25: PlasticsChapter 26: Contingent Labor and Professional ServicesChapter 27: Information TechnologyChapter 28: LogisticsChapter 29: MarketingChapter 30: MRO/Facilities ManagementChapter 31: Travel and Meetings

"Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals is an essential tool for every sourcing professional's toolkit. Many companies overlook the importance of market intelligence as a key component of strategic sourcing and others don't know where to start. The authors clearly have done their homework and have pulled together the profession's most comprehensive resource guidebook which not only helps sourcing professionals understand the importance of market intelligence, but gives them to tools to hit the ground running." -Kate Vitasek, Faculty, Graduate and Executive Education, College of Business Administration, University of Tennessee; Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals demonstrates the full impact that properly informed procurement can have on the top and bottom lines of an organization. The book provides the process details and resources required to enable execution by any practitioner." -Jon Hansen, Host, PI Window on the World Show, Blog Talk Radio & Editor, Procurement Insights; "Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals tackles one of the most important, yet least tangible aspects of the sourcing profession - how to get access to good, relevant information about supply markets quickly, and then maintain that information so that you have it when you need it. This book not only provides insight into the importance of market intelligence, explaining why getting that information not only helps sourcing professionals do their jobs more effectively, but also how it can help them bring value to the organizations they serve in terms of access to new products or technologies, grabbing up capacity so your competitors cannot gain access to it, and making the best business decisions in regards to hedging, spot buys and long term contracting. In a world where access to good, independent market intelligence is incredibly hard to come by, they have put together a user's guide to MI that should stand the test of time in an ever evolving procurement industry.-Joe Payne, Vice President of Professional Services, Source One Management Services, and Autho