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The five daily winners in the semi-finals will have their essays compete in the finals on August 27 and 28.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s what you do:<\/p>\n<p>1. Simply click the links below to read each essay.<\/p>\n<p>2. Use the \u201cClick here to vote\u201d link to submit your vote. Each day\u2019s voting will begin at 8:45 AM Eastern US time and will be open until 11:45 PM Eastern US time.<\/p>\n<p>3. Send the link\u00a0to your purchasing and supply management colleagues and encourage them to vote.<\/p>\n<p>4. Return here daily to vote.<\/p>\n<p>There is only one vote allowed per person. We have the ability to track the source of each and every vote and, if ballot stuffing is discovered, we will either remove duplicate votes or disqualify the candidate at our discretion.<\/p>\n<p>Here are today\u2019s essays\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Essay #1: David Ah-Tow (South Africa) \u2013 Topic: Obtaining Vendor Information<\/p>\n<p>Essay #2: Denise Minnich (United States of America) \u2013 Topic: Obtaining Emergency Vendor Service<\/p>\n<p>Essay #3: Yvetta Koleva (Bulgaria) \u2013 Topic: Negotiation<\/p>\n<p>Essay #4: Kacwa Ronnie (Uganda) \u2013 Topic: Increasing Procurement Visibility<\/p>\n<p>Essay #5: Antony Naploli (United States of America) \u2013 Topic: Internal Customer-Supplier Relations<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 130%\">CLICK HERE TO VOTE<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 (NOTE: If you are reading this after 11:45 PM Eastern US time on August 25 and after 8:45 AM on August 27, <strong>click here to vote on the latest entries.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you crave educational material on purchasing and supply management and aren\u2019t already a subscriber, join our FREE Purchasing Resources Program.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check back on Wednesday and Thursday for the final, deciding round of the Purch-lympics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we are already \u2013 at the last day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - 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