Posts tagged: supply chain
3 posts
- Your Suppliers Know More About Your Business Than You Do
Ryan Desmond The spend data your suppliers accumulate across your brands and subsidiaries gives them a view of your business you cannot replicate from the inside. This is not theoretical.
- The Information Asymmetry in Multi-Brand Procurement Nobody Talks About Ryan Desmond
Suppliers selling into multiple brands of the same conglomerate have aggregated visibility that the conglomerate itself lacks. This asymmetry is structural and exploitable.
- How to Read a Customs Manifest (and What You Can Infer From One) Ryan Desmond
U.S. import records are public. Most procurement and supply chain teams ignore them. Here is what is in them and what a competitor — or an analyst — can infer from your filing.