Short-Term Value Based Projects Can Justify Larger Technology Projects

Supply and Demand Chain Executive’s article on “2008 Supply and Demand Chain Executives Pros to Know” related the story of James Polak, Director, General Purchasing, PPG Industries. My background in spend analysis revealed a difficulty in getting firms to understand that there are tremendous savings in enabling corporate wide visibility of spend. PPG originally believed the same thing:
“In the early days of enabled spend analysis, around 2000-2001, segments of PPG believed that the project was a waste of capital and that there were no leveraged savings to be had.”
Polak made inroads into this area where he knew great savings existed …read more