QUOTE: On Talking a Walk
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Casual Friday: The Best ‘America’s Got Talent’ Surprise Yet
We had some technical difficulties this morning, but we’re back with an abbreviated Casual Friday post. If you tried to find us this morning, sorry about that. Thanks for hanging in there. This video might be the best thing going right now. Two siblings — the brother, a 9-year-old drummer, and the 6-year-old sister, a
Read More...PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Mini-series Summary
I hope you have enjoyed and found value in our blog series. This blog marks the final notes on our multi part series on PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing. We have discussed and demonstrated a ton of information not found anywhere in a short-form layout: Creating bid factors Total cost modeling Creating events Creating event responses Analyzing
Read More...PeopleSoft XML Publisher: The Right Report to the Right Person
Have you ever found yourself trying to deal with this scenario? Consider the situation where you have to run certain report, which is keyed by the Business Unit and Company. Once the report is run using a job using a batch user id, the report should go to the CEO of the Company and Business
Read More...PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Creating Project Plans for Procurement Events
One feature not yet discussed in this Strategic Sourcing blog mini-series is the ability to create project plans for procurement events within strategic sourcing. Some of the tasks that can be performed include: Assign duration days for each task Document instructions Define requirements for completion of each task Assign a resource to the task Optionally
Read More...Casual Friday: I Have Too Many Tabs Open, So Pardon Me While I Dump Some Here
The original plan was to tell you one of two stories: One about a cat who suffered a fairly giant digestive meltdown in the middle of the night about a year ago that concluded in him spinning wildy under our bed while, um, emitting, um, stuff, like the foulest balloon from hell you can imagine.
Read More...What if Planets Were as Close to Earth as the Moon?
Rosie Taylor for The Daily Mail: Ron Miller, a former art director for NASA, used digital trickery to superimpose scale drawings of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune over the same landscape, highlighting the sheer size of the planets. The incredible drawings imagine each planet to be 233,812 miles from Earth – the
Read More...PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: The Award Event
Last week we covered optimization as part of our ongoing Strategic Sourcing blog series. If you missed it, check it out. So, moving on. Whether you used the online analysis tool or the optimization engine, once you determine who you will award the event to, you must initiate the award action. The award event can
Read More...Apple’s iOS7: Thoughts and Impressions
Last week at its annual WWDC conference, Apple gave us a preview of iOS7, the next-generation operating system coming for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch this fall. As any regular reader knows, I am an entrenched Apple slappy, but I consider myself realistic. Here are my thoughts on what Apple showed us. Design The
Read More...PeopleSoft Strategic Sourcing: Optimization
Picking up where we left off, everyone. Today’s topic: optimization. You can use the Strategic Sourcing optimization engine to analyze bids online or by using the batch process — Sourcing Optimization process (AUC_OPT_AE) — by using specific business constraints. The optimization engine recommends an award allocation based on best price, total cost, or score. You
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