Thursday, August 21, 2008

Purch-lympics Semi-Finals, Day 3

Wow - it's Day 3 of the Purch-lympics already! Today, we have six new essays competing.

As a reminder, public votes determine each day's winner. The five daily winners in the semi-finals will have their essays compete in the finals on August 27 and 28. So here's what you do:

1. Simply click the links below to read each essay.

2. Use the "Click here to vote" link to submit your vote. Each day's voting will begin at 8:45AM Eastern US time and will be open until 11:45PM Eastern US time.

3. Send the link http://www.NextLevelPurchasing.com/blog to your purchasing and supply management colleagues and encourage them to vote.

4. Return here daily to vote.

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.

Here are today's essays...

Essay #1: John Ransom (United States of America) - Topic: Evaluating Vendor Viability

Essay #2: Annette Opondo (Kenya) - Topic: Dealing With Internal Conflict

Essay #3: Daniel Haakuria (Namibia) - Topic: Improving Logistics

Essay #4: S.B. Odegha (Nigeria) - Topic: Proving Supply Chain's Sourcing Abilities

Essay #5: Mukut Roy (India) - Topic: Project Management

Essay #6: Abdul Khan (India) - Topic: Vendor Managed Inventory


CLICK HERE TO VOTE (NOTE: If you are reading this after 11:45PM Eastern US time on August 21, click here to vote on the latest entries.)

To Your Career,
Charles Dominick, SPSM
President & Chief Procurement Officer
Next Level Purchasing, Inc.
Struggling To Have A Rewarding Purchasing Career?
Earn Your SPSM® Certification Online At
http://www.NextLevelPurchasing.com

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How do we get to see the daily results and the total standing per contestant?

Charles Dominick, SPSM said...

Sorry about that. Beginning on Day 4, I'm including a link to the results in each blog post. Here are links to the results from each day...

Day 1: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=w4CO0woWuVTVcPwM7aK22MmHj7OkPpsaHIkNrvdI91A_3d

Day 2:http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=6oITK5akV8WpML0GHmYqzDMGSco1Glahh8XiFEt_2fh5o_3d

Day 3: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=EZFJ0pTGQHlUcdZbIJurHZun7KiHhtBEm7GTM_2bI_2fBXk_3d

Day 4: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=lJadQbW0sIKkXp0ryChAv_2bQPYvaZDVk_2bx_2bjklFpN9k8_3d

Day 5: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=wW2cO_2bB5ny79lIdhBORFpuqiRr9a_2b8te58ZuVY102mc_3d

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