Category: Procurement & Sourcing
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Four Kinds of Weird in Your Price File: EUR 43,017 of Negotiating Room
A supplier asked for 20.4%. The published indices supported 2.3%. Here is the R workbench that found the gap, and the three things it honestly could not find.
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Your Supplier Isn’t Offering a Discount. They’re Offering You 29.8%
The price-break EOQ math says buy 600 units instead of 87 and save $6,566 a year. Then a carrying rate above 29.8% flips the answer. Here are the three numbers no supplier quote contains.
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Sole Source: The $900k Median Problem Your Dual-Source Checkbox Won’t Fix
The dual-source flag teams buy to feel safe moves the median cost of a disruption about $44k. In the wrong direction. The dependency nobody flags moves it $474k.
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The Resilience Ladder: Why the Things You Buy to Feel Safe Don’t Save You
I pulled 3,000 disruptions to find what separates firms that survive a shock from firms that bleed. The dual-source checkbox wasn’t it.
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The Most Expensive Word in Procurement: Minimum
Minimum Order Quantities silently drain working capital across thousands of SKUs. We analyze 30 real-world parts, calculate the true carrying cost of MOQ overbuys, and show three strategies that cut excess inventory by 47% — with R code and an interactive calculator.
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I Scored 10 Fortune 500 Giants as Suppliers: Wall Street Would Not Agree
I applied a multi-dimensional supplier risk framework to 10 of the largest Fortune 500 companies — using real public data. The company with the best credit rating scored as the riskiest supplier. Your neighborhood pharmacy landed at number two. Here’s every score, every data source, and the R code to run it on your own…
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The Experience Curve: The Most Powerful Cost Model You’re Probably Not Using
Every time cumulative production doubles, costs fall 20-30%. Here’s how to fit experience curves with R and use them for supplier negotiations, cost forecasting, and strategic sourcing.
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Quantity Discount Analysis: The Hidden Trap in Supplier Pricing That Most Buyers Miss
A supplier offers lower prices for larger orders — sounds great, right? Quantity Discount Analysis reveals that many discount schedules actually charge you more per incremental unit as volumes rise. Learn to spot this hidden trap with R.