In today’s post on Supply Excellence Tim Minahan makes an excellent point about the lack of proper oversight of purchasing practices in the federal government. Imagine the biggest spender in the world NOT having an appointed CPO and a competent team to oversee the expenditure of upwards of 3 trillion dollars. Granted, some lieutenants are in place now, but the team is not complete.
Every company in the world right now is looking into ways to become more efficient in their spend management. There are ways in which they can save money and they are looking furiously into that right now.
But Congress is blocking the nomination of the only persons who can actually help change wasteful practices and at the same time blames the administration of not being efficient in the shedding of taxpayers’ money. What a bad example to spend managers elsewhere. So much talking about saving money for health care but little action in actually saving it.
UPDATE: I just realized that Jason Busch from Spend Matters and Justin Fogarty, Editor of Supply Excellence co-authored the article, which also appears in the Spend Matters blog.
Carlos Ortiz
