{"id":2419,"date":"2008-01-21T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2008\/01\/21\/a-new-purchasing-blog-worth-your-rss-subscription\/"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:59:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T14:59:26","slug":"a-new-purchasing-blog-worth-your-rss-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/a-new-purchasing-blog-worth-your-rss-subscription\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Purchasing Blog Worth Your RSS Subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the sector\u2019s blogs like Spend Matters, Sourcing Innovation, Supply Excellence, and the eSourcing Forum are part of my everyday activities. However, beyond those, I\u2019ve been pretty disappointed with the quality of new purchasing blogs that have popped up over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I have to chuckle that some of the newer bloggers think that CPO\u2019s are actually out there taking their advice even though these bloggers haven\u2019t spent as much as one day of their lives as a buyer, let alone a CPO, director, manager, or even supervisor of purchasing. So hearing about a new purchasing blog makes me yawn. And the quality has more often than not left a lot to be desired. I usually don\u2019t even check out new purchasing blogs anymore.<\/p>\n<p>But I actually was excited when fellow Pittsburgher Robert Rudzki \u2013 author of several highly-respected purchasing books \u2013 told me about his new blog \u201cTransformation Leadership\u201d on Supply Chain Management Review\u2019s Web site. Mr. Rudzki brings a lot of real-world expertise to his blog, as he is the former CPO of Bayer Corp. as well as a former purchasing executive at Bethlehem Steel.<\/p>\n<p>Building an audience and sustaining momentum is difficult. In the past year, we\u2019ve seen Purchase Realm drop off the face of the planet, Procurement Central become Business &amp; Technology Nexus, and Supply Excellence cut its pace of posting by about half. 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