Newly Published Resources at www.capsresearch.org:

Benchmarking: Supply Management Talent Development and Retention
The Supply Management Talent Development and Retention Benchmarking Metric Report, published in November 2009, includes information and metric data pertinent to recruitment, development, retention, evaluation, compensation, and advancement of supply management employees. The benchmarking report is comprised of data provided by 260 participants. There are three breakout reports that include information provided by companies with revenue less than $500 million; companies with revenue greater than $500 million and less than $5 billion; and companies with revenue exceeding $5 billion. CAPS Research partnered with the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University and Rutgers Business School to develop this report and corresponding survey that measure key supply management talent development and retention strategies.

• Click here to access the benchmarking report.

Benchmarking: Print Services Market Basket of Goods
The report provides the average costs for 24 different print services jobs identified as being small (up to 2,000 copies), medium (up to 25,000 copies), or large (up to 20 million copies). Each of the 24 line items in the report has a unique item description, and while at first glance some of the descriptions look the same, there are differences throughout. The previous report mean data is also provided. It's interesting to note that the participating organizations reported 21 of the 24 line items cost less in 2010 than 2009.

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Benchmarking: SnapShots 2009 – Sourcing in China
Responses to the SnapShots questions about locating sourcing/procurement groups or organizations in China revealed mixed results. About half of the survey participants indicated that they did have a sourcing/procurement group located in China and about 56% of those participants reported increasing the number of employees assigned to that group. These participants also reported that during the last two years this sourcing/procurement group has assumed more authority (47%) or had no change (44%) to their regional procurement activities. The regional sourcing/procurement organization did not experience a measurable loss in productivity as a result of sourcing/procurement employee turnover. The other half of the survey participants reported they do not have a sourcing/procurement organization located in China and a clear majority (94%) of these participants indicated that they had no plans to locate a regional sourcing/procurement group in China within the next two years. .

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CAPS Research 2009 Annual Report - provides a financial summary, a listing of the Board of Trustees, and a listing of all CAPS Research sponsor organizations as of December 2009.

• Click here to access the CAPS Research 2009 Annual Report.

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Benchmarking Opportunities:

Measuring Innovation Strategies - Later this month, CAPS Research will ask if your company is a "Collaborative Innovator" or an "Independent Innovator." This three-question survey will help shape a larger research project on innovation strategies. The first step is to gauge which companies are collaborative innovators or independent innovators. When a company employs Collaborative Innovation it uses internal ideas and actively seeks external sources of innovation. Companies who stress Independent Innovation focus on internal innovation and closely guard its intellectual property.

SnapShot Benchmarking - Information sharing is one the most effective tools that companies can use to gain insight to topics or issues of general interest. CAPS Research SnapShots is proving to be a simple and straight-forward communications tool. Not only do you share in the results, you can develop your own questions for us to release to our benchmarking community.

Do You Want To Benchmark? If the answer is 'Yes,' contact the Benchmarking team at CAPS Research to get your company added to the list of companies who will be asked to provide data for 2010 survey releases. Just send an email to metrics@capsresearch.org asking for more information about benchmarking opportunities.

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News:

• The 21st Annual International Executive Roundtable for Chief Purchasing Officers will be held Apr 21 - 23, 2010, in Scottsdale, Arizona. The theme is, "Creating Value in the New Economy." With a spotlight on value-based commodity management and accelerating innovation from the supply base, we will focus on maximizing your capabilities beyond the transition. This is a CAPS Research Sponsor event. If you would like more information regarding this event, send an email to researchevents@capsresearch.org
  
  
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Knowledge Central:

The following reports and information are now published on www.capsknowledge.org, a sponsor-only searchable archive of CAPS Research studies, leading-edge practices, benchmarking reports and best practices presentations:

• Focus Study: Supply Strategy Implementation: Current State and Future Opportunities 2009

Please note that only CAPS Research sponsor organizations have full access to Knowledge Central. If you haven't already done so, I encourage you to click on Knowledge Central Overview for a short, five-minute guided tour of our Sponsor website, Knowledge Central.

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Sincerely,
Phillip Carter, D.B.A.
Executive Director
CAPS Research

CAPS Research is a global research organization jointly sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and the Institute for Supply Management™.

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