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Attention Supply Executives – Now accepting registrations for the Asian Executive Roundtable, June 5-6 in Shanghai, China. 
Take a five-minute guided tour of Knowledge Central, CAPS Research's searchable knowledgebase for current major sponsors.  click here

Forthcoming Reports

CAPS Research Sponsors: The reports below are currently available to you on Knowledge Central. The "click here" link takes you to the report's Resource Information Page.

Supply's Organizational Roles and Responsibilities 2011 (7/2/2012)  click here
SnapShots 2012 - Corporate Credit Card Spend Limits Metric Report (5/30/2012)  click here
SnapShots 2012 - Corporate Credit Card Spend Limits and Authorization Summary Report (5/30/2012)  click here
Financial Distress of Suppliers: Causes, Management, and Consequences (6/1/2012)  click here


The date shown is when the report will be posted here on www.capsresearch.org.

Upcoming Events

15th Asian Executive Roundtable
Jun 5 - 6, 2012
Shanghai, China

13th Annual Best Practices Workshop
Oct 1 - 3, 2012
Phoenix, Arizona

24th Annual International Executive Roundtable
Apr 10 - 12, 2013
Phoenix, Arizona

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From the Executive Director

CAPS Research, working in partnership with its global network of executives and academics, is dedicated to the discovery and dissemination of strategic supply management knowledge and best practices. To a large extent, everyone who shares our passion for supply management research can access reports and research findings by simply creating their own user login profile. If you haven't done so, click on the 'LOGIN' link in the upper right side of this web page and complete the registration process.

There is another level of information that is available to the companies who financially support CAPS Research. These are, for the most part, Fortune 500-size companies who are actively engaged in all facets of our research activities. But you don't have to be a large company to capitalize on our research and benchmarking efforts.

I am encouraging you to look around our public website to determine for yourself the value of registering to gain access to the CAPS Research documents on the public website. If you're at a larger, Fortune 500-size company, I invite you to browse through Knowledge Central, which is the sponsor-only website (www.capsknowledge.org) to learn how sponsor organizations can access specific data and actively participate in executive events.

Also, if you want to receive information on new resources being published send a message to research@capsresearch.org with your name, company name and the email address to which you would like the newsletter sent.

Recently Posted Research Publications

Date Publication       Authors
3/30/2012 Focused Benchmarking: Maintaining a Talented Workforce in the Supply Management Organization Metric Report 2012   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team
3/30/2012 Focused Benchmarking: Talent Management Twenty Twelve - A Benchmarking Perspective Summary Report 2012   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team
3/16/2012 Focused Benchmarking: Measuring Supplier Diversity Program Performance Metric Report 2012   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team
3/16/2012 Focused Benchmarking: Investment Recovery Performance Benchmarking Summary Report 2012   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team
3/2/2012 Critical Issues Report: Managing Commodity Pricing and Availability Volatility   report George A. Zsidisin, Ph.D., C.P.M.
1/27/2012 SnapShots Benchmarking: Commodities Risk Management   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team
1/17/2012 Industry Benchmarking: DOE NNSA Contractors Benchmarking Metric Report 2011   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team
1/9/2012 Focused Benchmarking: Supplier Environmental Sustainability Performance Report - 2011   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team
12/9/2011 SnapShots Benchmarking: Capital Equipment Sourcing and Procurement   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team
12/9/2011 Cross-Industry Benchmarking: Cross-Industry Metric Report December 2011   metrics CAPS Research Benchmarking Team

Research in Progress

If you would like to learn more about one of the research studies below, please contact us at Research@capsresearch.org.

Benchmarking: Cross Industry
Benchmarking: Environmental Sustainability
Benchmarking: SnapShots
Focus Study: The Impact of Social Networking Media in the Supply Chain (expected completion June 2012)

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Vincent Hrenak
Vice President
Raytheon Network Centric Systems

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