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Posted: Mon 04 Feb 2013, 06:42
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"./unionfs-fuse -o cow,allow_other $Pkg/$Pkg.w=RW:$uFS:/=RO $Pkg/$Pkg.u"
That's incomplete -you have no =?? assignment for the '$uFS' part. It should be:
The allow_other may not be needed when things are working correctly. Were, when running as a user, only the user could do the unmount, unless allow_root was specified. But that was only a problem when I still had hanging mounts.
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Posted: Mon 04 Feb 2013, 15:58
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I didn`t put the full command as it was so long. $uFS has the app. and lib. layers in it.
Here`s the full command with $uFS expanded:
./unionfs-fuse -o cow,allow_root geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.w=RW:geeqie_1.0-10_i386/lib=RO:geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.a=RO:/=RO geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.u
The union is made correctly, there`s no error from it, and I can see all of the layers looking into: geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.u
From my web reading it appears that unionfs-fuse is the problem with the permissions, it`s stopping falsechroot from exec. in it.
I thought the file /etc/fuse.conf was it as it fixed that person`s problem, but even it didn`t make any difference.
Another web page said it needed "dev" and that fixed that person`s problem with permissions.
So I tried adding: ,use_ino,suid,dev. in various arrangements. And tried another one: default_permissions
Nothing changes the error.
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Posted: Mon 04 Feb 2013, 16:35
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You don't post there the full command that you gave for fakechrrot, but as I recall, it would seem you may be missing the command to run
in the chroot.
I just built geeqie from source using src2pkg and set up a chroot with unionfs-fs and fakechrooted in there and it worked fine -took about 5 minutes to build and twenty seconds to set up and run the chroot.
What happens when you manually create the union and chroot in there with no command to run?
unionfs-fuse -o cow rw=RW:app=RO:/=RO union
fakechroot chroot union
(then which geeqie and then simply geeqie)
I'm having zero problems using this method for everything I've tried here... except for that weirdness with chrome having to do with all the dbus, etc mess. Nothing else has complained at all.
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Posted: Mon 04 Feb 2013, 20:33
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Hey amigo; Just me fumbling around here...
The run file:
./fakechroot $uMt $@
./setup &
$uMt is exported from setup as it`s needed again to unmount the union.
I just manually mounted the Geeqie Sq. file, it shows good in mnt. dir.
Then the union, checked that geeqie-standard ( exec. ) is in it. Good.
Checked union for libs.: libexiv2.so.11.0.0 and libstdc++.so.6.0.0. Good.
Then I created a blank file in the Write dir. and it shows in the union dir.
Then ran the chroot. Still the permission error...
sh-4.1# ./fakechroot geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.u geeqie-standard
env: can't execute 'geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.u': Permission denied
Odd item is ROX filer doesn`t want to show down to the libstdc++..... libs.
It`ll show the other lib. fine, but in scrolling down it stops before the end.
So I did "ls" on the libs. and it says they`re where they`re supposed to be.
And I did readlink on the links just to check everything, and they`re good.
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Posted: Mon 04 Feb 2013, 22:21
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Just set $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the AppPkg /lib dir. and Geeqie ran.
It errors about Puppy being "old".
sh-4.1# /mnt/sda3/AppPkg/build/a.AppPkg/.AppPkg/geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.build/usr/bin/geeqie-standard
!!! This is a friendly warning.
!!! The version of GTK+ in use now is older than when Geeqie was compiled.
!!! compiled with GTK+-2.24
!!! running with GTK+-2.20
!!! Geeqie may quit unexpectedly with a relocation error.
Could not init LIRC support
** (geeqie-standard:24742): WARNING **: invalid menu path item FileOpsSection
** (geeqie-standard:24742): WARNING **: invalid menu path item FileOpsSection
If you post the commands you used for the union and fakechroot I can manually try it again.
unionfs-fuse isn`t clear about a few items:
--nonempty = I assume it`s talking about the "union dir." being not empty.
--allow_other = I assume this allows anybody access "including root".
--allow_root = And this allows root only.
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Posted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 00:03
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I booted to Puppy5.4.X.5 Precise, was using Puppy5.3-005.
The errors changed, what a surprise...
####### Run: geeqie_1.0-10_i386
mount: warning: geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.a seems to be mounted read-only.
### Unionfs-Fuse geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.w=RW:geeqie_1.0-10_i386/lib=RO:geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.a=RO:/=RO geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.u
getopt: unrecognized option '--version'
BusyBox v1.19.3 (2011-11-09 07:34:50 WST) multi-call binary.
Usage: getopt [OPTIONS]
-a,--alternative Allow long options starting with single -
-l,--longoptions=longopts Long options to be recognized
-n,--name=progname The name under which errors are reported
-o,--options=optstring Short options to be recognized
-q,--quiet Disable error reporting by getopt(3)
-Q,--quiet-output No normal output
-s,--shell=shell Set shell quoting conventions
-T,--test Test for getopt(1) version
-u,--unquoted Don't quote the output
fakechroot: preload library not found, aborting.
# ####### End: geeqie_1.0-10_i386
# BUT... No permission error. It looks like fakechroot ran, but it had an error.
So it seems Puppy5.3 isn`t a good one to use. Lucid and Precise don`t mix well...
I noticed that Puppy5.4.X.5 has the newer libs. that I had put in the AppPkg/lib dir.
My Chrome AppPkg works in Puppy5.4.X.5, I`m posting this from it.
I need another distro. to use, but I can`t find a smallish Debian or Ubuntu live-CD.
# Amigo... What Linux distro. do you use? ### Maybe you`ll try it with Puppy?
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Posted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 02:40
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"./fakechroot geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.u geeqie-standard"
should be:
"./fakechroot chroot geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.u geeqie-standard"
As I said, geeqie_1.0-10_i386/geeqie_1.0-10_i386.u, being in the first spot, is being interpreted as the command to run.
My distro: I eat my own dog food, running KISS-5.0, all built and packaged from scratch. If you really wanna know how things work, you need to start with something like slackware or arch -normally installed to a hrad-disk without any initrd or any schnick-schnack. Once you understand the boot process fully, then study their installer which uses a pretty big initrd. Once you understand the difference in boot procedure, then you are qualified to start assembling your own from other peoples components -to make it do what you want. When 'what you want' is no longer with others' pieces, then you learn to build your own packages. It doesn't really matter what the package format is -the most important things will be the same, or nearly, from one pkg format to the next.
I've been rolling my own for several years now, and really like it because it takes the upgrade pressure off. The bad thing about arch or gentoo, in particular, is that you never get finished upgrading your system, so you never have any time to learn about other things -like what makes it tick and how to change that.
As for that getopts error, try playing around with the code in fakechroot which checks that -comment out the line 'getopts --version' and the normal options (the first set) and see if pups' getopt will work with the second set of options:
#getopttest=`getopt --version`
#case $getopttest in
# GNU getopt
#opts=`getopt -q -l lib: -l use-system-libs -l config-dir: -l environment -l version -l help -- +l:sc:e:vh "$@"`
# ;;
# POSIX getopt ?
opts=`getopt l:sc:e:vh "$@"`
# ;;
If you're gonna use fakechroot on pupish systems, then you'll need to fix it before distributing it, so that it works. Of course, simply changing the shebang works fine also, as we've seen.
Yes, expect different errors depending on which OS & variant is being used. In the case of puppy, this means 534 main versions with 12756 variants -each with its' own errors. LOL
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Posted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 04:16
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Well that must have been the right thing needed. On Puppy5.4.X.5 the VT went into a race.
My usual Puppy threw a pile of errors, and neither Puppy would reboot afterwards.
Yeah, I`d say fakechroot needs some work alright.
It`s late and I`m busy tomorrow so I`ll try again later in the day.
Thanks amigo...
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Ouch, guess I should have proposed a safer way to find out which getopts syntax would work with busybox-as-sh.
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Tatyana Sharoubim made sure her T. Georgiano's women's clothing boutique downtown was wired with smartphones and social networking from the day it opened in 2005.
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Groupon has excelled at this type of marketing and cross-polinizing. The company's success translated into a $6.8 billion market cap on the NASDAQ market. With Groupon, merchant allot some of their inventory at a hefty discount to normal prices and then split profits with Groupon on the higher-volume of transactions.
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To make the model more sustainable, MobileBits has decided to get paid on a "cost per acquisition" (CPA) basis.
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The idea is to streamline the process of bringing the customer to the retailer, but not get in the middle of the transaction itself -- because that means competing with huge players such as Visa, MasterCard and PayPal.
"We charge 40 cents per CPA," Kostiuk said.
The way MobileBits sees it, transactions occur only after the consumer has taken a number of steps to progress toward payment.
First, the consumer subscribes to the merchant's storefront within the Samy network. Then he or she views the store's offers, and then clicks to learn more about a particular deal -- like T. Georgiano's on Palm Beach Sandals.
When the consumer gets to the point where he or she decides either to buy now or save the transaction for the future, MobileBits gets paid.
But the ultimate client is still the shop owner.
In Sarasota, merchants like Longwood Athletic Club and T. Georgiano's have had some success with Samy.
Longwood Athletic Club has used it to bring in members to its 18 tennis courts and pro shop, pool, gym, and adjoining Tiki Joe's restaurant, said owner Travis Eckert.
Sharoubim offered a special on the sandals: buy one pair for $110, and get a second pair for half price.
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At Jewry Wall Museum you can discover the archaeology of Leicester's past and find out about the people of Leicester from prehistoric times to the medieval period.
A special display on the history of archaeology in Leicester, 'Archaeology and Endeavour' explains why our city has such rich and interesting museum collections and includes a stunning display of extremely rare medieval glass from Wygston's House.
The museum grounds contain one of Leicester's most famous landmarks, the Jewry Wall, part of the Roman town's public baths. It is one of the tallest surviving pieces of Roman masonry in the country.
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The adjacent museum tells the story of Leicester from prehistory through to the end of the medieval period. The museum holds Leicestershire's archaeological collections ranging in date from 300,000 years ago to the end of the Middle Ages. The Roman collections are particularly exciting and include what experts describe as the finest Roman mosaic in this country and three very rare examples of magnificent Roman wall painting.
'The Making of Leicester', a multi-media exhibition, tells the story of the City from the Iron Age to the year 2000. The exhibition focuses on the people who created Leicester's colourful history in a series of exciting formats. The centrepiece of the exhibition is the specially commissioned portraits of Leicester at different historical periods and the scientific re-creation of the faces of historic Leicester citizens from their skulls.
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Deep Space Station K-7 was a Federation deep space station in the mid-23rd century. The station was constructed by Starfleet and administered by a civilian staff. In 2268, Mr. Lurry was the station manager of this facility. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")
Deep Space K-7 was located within Federation space, in the Beta Quadrant, and near the border with the Klingon Empire. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain") The nearest Klingon outpost was only 3.26 light years away from the station. K-7 and this Klingon outpost were also in the same quadrant as Donatu V and Sherman's Planet. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles") The station was over two hundred light years from Bajor. (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")
The station was operational by at least 2256. (DIS: "Choose Your Pain")
In 2256, this station's location was labeled on the star chart "Alpha/Beta Quadrant Overview" in the ready room aboard the USS Discovery. (DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
In 2257, during the first Federation-Klingon War, this station was occupied by the Klingons. (DIS: "The War Without, The War Within")
In the year 2268, Cyrano Jones, an interstellar trader, introduced a litter of tribbles to K-7, which quickly grew into an infestation. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")
The infestation coincided with the arrival of Federation undersecretary Nilz Baris, who transported several tons of the grain quadrotriticale to K-7, intended for cultivation on Sherman's Planet. Unbeknownst to Federation officials, the grain had been poisoned by Klingon spy Arne Darvin in collusion with the visiting crew of the IKS Gr'oth. It was not until hundreds of tribbles were found dead, gorged on the poisoned grain, that the contamination was revealed. Fortunately though, the plan was uncovered thanks to the tribbles and foiled by Starfleet Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise, who also happened to be visiting the station at the time. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles"; TAS: "More Tribbles, More Troubles")
In the year 2373, an elderly Arne Darvin traveled back to K-7 of the past, where he planted a tricobalt bomb intended to kill Captain Kirk and prevent his own "dishonor". Darvin was ultimately caught by Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew of the USS Defiant and returned to the 24th century. This incident caused some minor changes in the timeline to take place. In one instance, Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir, disguised as members of Kirk's crew, became involved in a bar brawl between Klingons and Enterprise crewmembers. After the fight, Kirk lined up his officers for questioning. Prior to the temporal change, Freeman was questioned by Kirk, but the temporal incursion caused O'Brien to take his place. (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")
The thirty decks of K-7 and the three outboard modules labeled K-A, K-B, and K-C mainly consisted of storage areas and industrial fabrication facilities. Among the recreational areas available on the station was a bar frequented by intergalactic trader Cyrano Jones. The manager's office featured a two-person transporter pad. The station had two docking bays for small starships and auxiliary spacecraft. There was little space designated for quarters.
In 2268, the Class F shuttlecraft NCC-K7 and the Spacematic, Cyrano Jones' vessel, were stored in docking bay 2. (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")
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For DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations", sets used to represent the interior of K-7 were built on Paramount Stage 18. (Information from Larry Nemecek)
According to Star Trek Maps (Chart B), K-7 was a Federation K-class deep space station, one of seventeen such stations scattered around the periphery of Federation space at the time, to serve as resupply stations and drydocks in areas where there were no inhabited star systems.
For information on the studio model, see Deep Space Station K-7 model.
The registry of the NCC-K7 shuttlecraft assigned to the station suggests the possibility NCC-K7 was the registry number assigned to the station. Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual also depicts a shuttle assigned to Starbase 1 with a NCC-registry, NCC-6038⁄5. The shuttles not assigned to starships that appeared later on in the remastered episodes of Star Trek, such as the Picasso, were registered differently as "SB11-1201⁄1". It should be noted though that Starbase 11 the Picasso was assigned to was not a space station.
The exact dimensions of the station were not established, but it appeared to be roughly the same size as, or slightly bigger than, a Constitution-class starship.
According to the Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 56), Deep Space K-7 was located in the Beta Quadrant.
According to The Art of the Impossible by Keith R.A. DeCandido, the K-7 had fallen into disrepair by the 2340s and hadn't been upgraded or refitted in decades.
The K-7 station itself appeared in the video game Star Trek: Elite Force II set in the late 24th century. The station was still in run down shape and owned by a Klingon named Lurok. Another K-7 type station appeared in a skirmish map on the video game Star Trek: Legacy, where it was simply labeled as a trading station.
In Star Trek Online, set in 2409, K-7's internal systems appeared to have been refitted. The station was placed in an orbit around Sherman's Planet and was under the command of Starfleet Commander Naomi Wildman. Lieutenant Commander Icheb also serves aboard the station.
The alternate reality version of K-7 appears in the second issue of the Star Trek: Ongoing story arc Legacy of Spock. After the events of Star Trek, Ambassador Spock is transported aboard the USS Muller to K-7 where he finds Cyrano Jones and requests transport to Romulus to discover the Empire's plans for eliminating the surviving Vulcans.
In the video game Star Trek: Bridge Crew, the USS Aegis is orbiting K-7 when the station commander asked the ship to perform a scan of the civilian freighter SS Ragusa to verify it was not transporting banned materiel.
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Good evening Abdullah - I'll contribute an observation on the first one. Perhaps others who have been doing contract management and procurement for longer than me might have a different view, or say it more eloquently, but here goes....
Purchasing is a subset of procurement. It is the giving effect to a lot of the procurement work that you've done earlier (i.e. establishing what you want, identifying suppliers etc).
That said, I think that you can purchase without doing procurement, and in fact, I'd go so far as to say that you can even get the same outcome.
However, only by procurement can you demonstrate that you've got the right outcome. If you only purchase, and don't understand your needs, identify the market and consider the offerings against your needs, you can't demonstrate that you've got the best outcome for the business.
And this is where I think we as a group can demonstrate our worth to the business. We can show with procurement the outcomes that we've avoided (goods not matching requirements, getting better pricing outcomes, repetitional damage etc) by running a fair and robust process ensures that the business is better off.
On many occasions I've seen my team has moved someone from their initial fixed ideas into better outcomes by taking the time to show them what's possible and what good looks like. Do that enough times, and you have more and more allies in the business to encourage others to use your services.
• World Commerce & Contracting • 2019-06-14 17:41:27
Hi, Abdullah,
Check out this article in the IACCM Library, 'Procurement' and 'Purchasing' Are Different:
• 2019-06-14 17:45:20
Having looked at this topic, there is actually already a lot written on the question of the difference between purchasing and procurement. As they observe, for the typical person they are probably the same, but apparently 'the experts' in procurement know the difference! Though once you start reading, there is plenty of contradiction...
When it comes to Supply Management, it is yet another variant and clear as mud whether it is actually different from Procurement. Supply Chain Management is certainly a more holistic activity of which procurement is part, but that's about all you can really deduce.
The net is, these terms are used with a high degree of variability and tend to mean whatever anyone wants them to mean; the only common factor is that they are all associated with the act of buying!
Tim Cummins
• Ginkgo Management Consulting • 2019-06-24 04:21:43
Hi Abdullah
Years ago Procurement and Purchasing were often used interchangeability. These days they have very different meanings. Procurement refers to the end-to-end activities from strategic category management, through to the operational analytics of spend and performance, to the tactical buying and sourcing activities which can happen in-house or in shared services.
As the Procurement function has 'grown up'it has become far more strategic, so although the term Procurement refers to all the activities conducted by the function, it also implies more strategic perspectives. The scope is also overlapping with other related functions like Finance (Accounts Payable as part of the purchase to pay process) and supply chain (Supply Planning, product innovation and supplier performance management). The increasing focus on digital in Procurement is also seeing more collaboration with other functions for example, RPA (Robotic Process Automation) and machine learning, process automation and contract management, and predictive analytics.
Purchasing is clearly the administrative activity of raising a purchase order, managing the goods/service receipt notice and approving to pay. More advanced companies use on-line catalogues to support this along with automated workflow routing and defined delegations of authority. Put simply, Purchasing includes the tactical purchase and approval activities to support buying.
When we speak about supply chain today, we tend to talk about a value chain. Some organizations are now including supply chain and Procurement in one organization given the overlaps, but predominantly they continue to be separate, but related functions.
Supply chain will include demand planning and forecasting, distribution planning, warehousing and logistics, manufacturing (which may also be a separate function), supply planning and often new product development.
Where Procurement gets involved most is in supply planning and supplier performance management, for instance, using contracts to enforce performance, and collaborating with supply chain and marketing for product and service innovation by tracking supply markets and innovations.
Conceptually, the Procurement function has shifted from managing costs to providing value. Using advanced analytics of COGS and SG&A data, digital tools and advanced supplier market research, the function is working far more collaboratively with other functions. As business cadence increases, functions are becoming more linked and lines between which function does what is blurring.
Hope this helps.
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2018-02-12 11:11:06
Diminishing Reward
Have members noticed decline in remuneration packages in the UK and Europe? There seems to be a distinct trend in recruitment to aggrandise job titles. Data input and...
Have members noticed decline in remuneration packages in the UK and Europe?
There seems to be a distinct trend in recruitment to aggrandise job titles. Data input and procurement clerks are now being termed "Contract Managers".
Further, certain major employers (esp in renewables) are holding down remuneration by stating "...offering i.r.o. 35k" for complex, multi million dollar, senior contracts management positions and rejecting any professional looking for a respectable reward.
• World Commerce & Contracting • 2018-02-13 15:51:16
In addition to particular responses from other members who may have noticed such a potential decline in remuneration, if any, I would encourage the poster of this forum entry to regularly check IACCM annual salary review. Please refer to our IACCM library, by clicking on
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Allianz Technology
2017-06-06 07:06:35
Performance of Contract Management
I'm curious to get inputs about the performance assessment of contract management. While other roles have defined metrics (for instance, procurement roles can be meas...
I'm curious to get inputs about the performance assessment of contract management.
While other roles have defined metrics (for instance, procurement roles can be measured by savings, number of contracts and other achievements), I find it difficult to measure the performance of contract managers.
Contract Managers get involved tasks in several areas, such as governance, negotiation, change process, deliverables and obligations' tracking, exit management, and many more, I'm not being able to define consistent metrics to measure performance (notice that I'm not talking about performance of a supplier or a contract, but of a contract manager).
Any inputs? How contract managers are evaluated in your corporation?
• World Commerce & Contracting • 2017-06-06 14:15:02
Dear David,
The performance of the Contract Manager role and the performance of the Contract Management Process in general is one of our key points in each one of our recent IACCM anual conferences and networking events, as the matter takes us to the question: "How should we measure and demonstrate success?"
Indeed, while transactional performance is clearly important, it rarely offers the insights that we need, if we are to raise our status and our contribution.
Our thinking and our measurements must start to focus on driving benefits at a portfolio level and relate directly to achieving the strategic goals of our business.
Value will be delivered through a process based view, through monitoring the outcomes of what we do, through generating measured innovation and continuous improvement.
This depends upon capturing and analysing performance data, through challenging established rules and procedures, through inspiring the new models and approaches we have discussed this week. And it also depends on courage - developing leadership and influencing skills.
Keep in mind one of IACCM survey findings: 'Contract Management is one of the least automated processes... and this results in inefficiency and weaknesses in PERFORMANCE oversight, as well as in the absence of management reporting and information'. Here we value the importance of Contract Management Automation and that´s why we are focused on this topic in recent Ask the Expert sessions and in our future events (Australasia and The Americas conferences).
Best regards,
Pablo Cilotta
• Sysintellects • 2017-06-06 20:34:54
Dear David, have you thought about listing out every task that contact managers are responsible for in your corporation then, assigning a numerical value to each task. Then, assigning a score to each task to analyse and create a quantified report on your overall contract management performance?
e.g. you mentioned governance, negotiation, change process as a few of the tasks. Perhaps you could write these tasks in a spreadsheet and assign values like so:
Total Value = 100
Governance - 30
Negotiation - 20
Change Process - 10
Deliverables Tracking - 10
Obligations Tracking - 10
Exit Management - 20
Then, for each contract manager, you could assess their performance based on a score. Score could be for example, between 1 and 10.
Score Values = 1 through 10
Performance Assessment for: Joe Smith (Sr. Contract Manager) for Q1
Governance - 30 - 8
Negotiation - 20 - 6
Change Process - 10 - 9
Deliverables Tracking - 10 - 9.5
Obligations Tracking - 10 - 7
Exit Management - 20 - 9
You could average each of the score values and weigh it against how important each of the tasks are (based on their numerical value). From a high level point of view, based on these numbers, you could create a percentage of "contract management performance efficiency" per quarter/month/week/day for each of your contract managers.
This is just one idea. As full disclosure, I work with a contract management software vendor where we help our clients effectively manage their contracts online. We don't have this particular feature built out on our software yet, but would be open to discussing further and building it our for you in our Analytics & Reporting function, if you'd be interested.
Feel free to contact me directly at nazar.abdul@
Hope the above ideas help!
• Academy Sports + Outdoors • 2017-07-31 16:44:04
The less standardization you have on your services the greater the difficulty will be in establishing useful performance metrics that span your portfolio. For example, a BPO contract or a customer IT services agreement will have many specific considerations that can lengthen the time of negotiation and result in contracts that vary substantially from other contracts in the same portfolio.
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2016-07-11 02:02:35
disadvantages of Pass-through Cost
Can anyone tell me the disadvantages of having more than 50-60% Pass-through Cost when a company is executing a ERP implementation project and is acting as system inte...
Can anyone tell me the disadvantages of having more than 50-60% Pass-through Cost when a company is executing a ERP implementation project and is acting as system integrator(SI).
Is the project worth executing when it comes to value for money?
• 2016-07-11 21:14:46
There are a few disadvantages from the pass-through approach. First, the party bearing the cost is not in direct negotiation with the source of the cost. As such, some costs that might be more aggressively addressed are not fully addressed. The discussions around how to best manage and mitigate the costs will exclude the party who is ultimately most interested and invested in those costs. As such, there is seldom much innovation or break-through thinking generated in these discussions.
There are other disadvantages arising under pass-through approaches related to the contractual terms, which also impact costs.
That's what SI's do. You go to an SI to be a one-stop shop. It is inevitable that he wont be able to do it all himself so much will be subcontracted. Where this is done at zero margin (!) we call it pass through. It does make me wonder why an SI would want the admin and risk burden of such a large pass through without any reward and, I agree with Anonymous that you are distanced from the party actually completing the work, so you don't have direct control over half of your project.
Hire a good PM and split the SI contract into two and deal direct with both.
• 2016-09-12 00:11:09
Not sure of the size of your proposed project nor of your organization. I just finished leading negotiation of a large, multi-year ERP implementation project that will span several countries and be vital to our company's future. We have a single SI who has the resources to complete the work themselves (we reserved the right to review and approve any proposed subcontractor/subcontractor resources prior to their use). Not sure why you have an SI that wants to, if I understand correctly, use one or more subcontractors to perform a significant portion of the work.
If you are using a smaller Systems Integrator, then I would want to make sure that the SI is responsible for consistency in how the work is performed and that consistent methodology is used; and that ultimately the SI is FULLY responsible for the work delivered. Depending on the size of the ERP work and your organization, you may want to hire a Project Management team or at least Project Manager to help oversee the timely completion of the work.
As to you question about whether or not the project is worth executing - without knowing the business case, the cost and understanding the risks, I'm not sure anyone can answer that, but I would be cautious with such a large percentage being subcontracted.
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2015-01-27 10:15:01
What is Your Agenda or Contention with Contract Management
The above bullet points are currently a source of contention in the corporate office. The problem is that those that do not have a day-to-day touch point do not under...
The above bullet points are currently a source of contention in the corporate office. The problem is that those that do not have a day-to-day touch point do not understand the importance contract management offers. Once they understand the day-to-day operations or lack thereof, it seems to have fallen to the bottom of their agenda.
Communications is a repeated source of success or failure in contract management (as with so many other pursuits!). Unfortunately, communications are treated as a step or action item. Successful contract management programs often cite their sustainable communication strategy, and not merely an occasional tactic, as the key driver of their success.
It would be interesting to see whether any members have examples of sustainable communication strategies that they can share across the IACCM membership base.
• Academy Sports + Outdoors • 2015-01-28 17:51:16
I've noticed generally that younger, less mature organizations have a less enthusiastic view of the contract management function, whereas a large, mature organization usually has realized at some point that it is essential. To a certain extent, I think that we in legal or contract management roles are unreasonable if we expect that others will really "get" what we do. Normally they just want answers or results. But time and time again I've seen the greatest successes come in situations where the legal/contracts function sits down and works directly with the business leads as partners. Once the business leads feel supported, they will become evangelists, that is, provided that the support we give is creative, responsive, and timely.
• Zensar Technologies Ltd. • 2015-02-04 03:06:41
Contract Management needs to be driven as strategic initiative, with top down approach to see success. Integrating the activities of contract management with existing quality audit process and project execution norms may give the required boost or importance. Continuous improvement with revision in tools and checklists, creating extensions of contract management process within the stakeholders like sales and operations, by providing enough ammunition through trainings and continuous dialogue to resolve issues. Management attention and involvement in the process can be increased by helping in provisioning of visual metrics depicting risk analysis, risk profiling without consuming the precious hours.
• Fokker Aerostructures BV • 2017-01-06 11:14:24
I would like to reply (after two years :)) to the second comment here below which starts with a great observation on the effect on maturity of organisations on how they perceive contract management bu then states that "Normally they just want answers or results. But time and time again I've seen the greatest successes come in situations where the legal/contracts function sits down and works directly with the business leads as partners. Once the business leads feel supported, they will become evangelists, that is, provided that the support we give is creative, responsive, and timely."
Actually my view is that if this would be sales-side contract management this exactly describes the way less mature organisations look at contract management. Contract management 'only' as supporting function and not as performance monitor, 'checks and balances' of sales and delivery, profit maximizer and risk reducer which goes much further then working together with other functions but actually keeping them on track.
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Saipem S.p.A
2014-10-23 00:14:51
What are the position?
Dear Friends, I am Ayyub from India, I am a Contracts Manager, I have a little Confusion about the Position in Contracts Department in Middle East or International.whi...
Dear Friends, I am Ayyub from India, I am a Contracts Manager, I have a little Confusion about the Position in Contracts Department in Middle East or
position come below Contracts Manager.
1) Contracts Manager
2) Contracts Administrator
3) Contracts Engineer
4) Contracts Specialist
Please help me out the position listed Above in Series.
• BCS Global Networks Ltd. • 2014-10-24 12:18:53
Hello Ayyub, I can only speak to how the titles you list up above are being used in North America, and only given my experience so far. Contracts Manager and Contracts Specialist are sometimes used by companies interchangeable, i.e. their job profile are quite often identical. The Contracts Administrator supports the Contracts Manager in his/her role and therefore is below Contracts Manager. I'm not familiar with the title Contracts Engineer and I have not seen this title or profile in job postings in the US and in Canada.
Hope this helps.
• 2014-11-11 18:37:09
There is no hard written rules, but some are the tips and this is again based on your organisation size, business and structure;
Contracts Manager - Who processes exceptional skills and knowledge about various types of contracts, starting from pre-qualification of vendors, tender exercise, contract award, administration and contract close-outs, audit queries, and able to supervise, coach and advise the management and his staff, monitor good governance and compliances.
Contract Administrator - can be an assistant to contracts manager or post contract administrator, invoice processing, issuing call-off and variation orders, documentation, maintaining correspondences.
Contracts Engineer - ideally an engineer, who has exceptional skills to develop tendering and contracting activities and can negotiate, interpret the scope and changes, can develop pricing strategies and formulas, peer reviews, planning and costing knowledge as well as effectively interface with end-users etc and etc,
Contracts Specialist - can be a category specialist such as drilling, production and maintenance, vessel chartering etc and etc,
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2014-06-11 18:02:37
pre-qualification of contractors
To pre-qualify contractors to be in the bid-slate of construction and service procurement, the technical team require copy of contract (first page, value, period and s...
To pre-qualify contractors to be in the bid-slate of construction and service procurement, the technical team require copy of contract (first page, value, period and scope) and many contractors are reluctant to provide such documents due to confidentiality and signed NDA. They provide record of experience, reference details and certificates. Can anyone refer me to the best practice in the pre-qualification exercise.
• 2014-06-13 17:38:15
I can understand contractor reluctance and potential difficulty. Do you allow contractors to share details of their contracts with you?
In my view, best practices are to ask specific ques tigons regarding contractor's performance under contracts, focusing on areas you care about. You might also require references. In both cases, you might make clear that you are depending on these representations.
• Praxair Inc. a member of Linde Group • 2014-06-17 10:02:39
The contractors are right to push back on your request for obvious legal reasons. I'll suggest that you ask them for references from their past and present projects and get in touch with those references that are of interest to you in order to confirm the contractor's performance on the projects
• Nexen Energy ULC • 2015-03-02 14:44:58
There is an organization in Alberta Canada called Construction Owners Association of Alberta. I am a co-chair of the Contracts Committee and we have a number of best practices under our committee and are developing several more (like a standard format for a EPC scope of work).
One of our best practices is for Contractor Prequalification. I think you will find it of some help to you. the link is
Let me know what you think.
• Kaman Precision Products • 2014-06-19 20:08:03
I have to agree with the post that talks to requiring past performance as well as reference checking. As a sidebar, if you are in the process of pre-qualifying a contractor how well defined can the period and scope be? There are times in my current role where we are in the pre-qual stage and know nothing more than a rough order of magnitude and have a rough period of performance. Sometimes these are not nailed down until 50% CD or later.
• 2014-06-26 09:46:49
It depends on the objective of your pre-qual process. For our company, pre-qual only identifies if a prospective bidder should/should not receive an RFP across just 5 key risk areas (safety, finance, quality, technical, legal. Suppliers answer either yes/no or provide a number to each pre-qual question. We then allow these suppliers to attach any documents they believe strengthens or clarifies their answers. We do not force them to provide confidential contract info to us at this time. That might come later in either the RFP or negotiations.
If you are requesting specific contract sections from your bidders, you are most likely doing much more than pre-qualifying them. Before asking the supplier to provide contract sections, you should discuss this type of request with your legal counsel and counsel of the country in which the supplier resides.
• ATCO Electric • 2014-06-26 22:12:45
From my experience, we have been asking contractors to provide contract completion letter or reference letter from previously completed jobs. Experience letter from similar industry are scored higher than others. Some smart contractors take good reference letters from their satisfied clients and use it freely for pre-qualification, which same time helps the project owners in their pre qualification process.
Hi Khalid,
As the vendor I would push back as already mentioned by other contributors here. Asking for references is fine, asking for value of contracts delivered to check whether a vendor has a capacity, skills, experience is also acceptable. Vendor's contracts and even customer's portfolio is simply treated as a trade secret. Unless a customer provides the vendor with references the contract very often prohibits a disclosure that the deal was done.
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While members of the House Financial Services Committee sparred on Tuesday over whether the Dodd-Frank Act is hurting more than it's helping, representatives from various segments of the financial services community testifying before the committee stopped short of saying Dodd-Frank needs to be repealed.
When asked to raise their hand if they supported the repeal of Dodd-Frank, none of the seven testifying—representing groups including the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Investment Company Institute (ICI)—did so.
Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, has pledged to repeal the law while saying some of its concepts "have a place."
Granted, some of those testifying along with Republican members of the committee were glad to share their complaints about Dodd-Frank during the hearing, "The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Customers, Credit and Job Creators," held by the Capital Markets Subcommittee.
Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., chairman of the subcommittee, argued that the stagnant economy, the 8% unemployment rate, declining wages and frozen credit was "interrelated," and that the passage of Dodd-Frank was "one of the main reasons why there has been such tepid economic growth since the financial crisis."
But Democratic members of the committee were quick to defend the Wall Street reform bill. Rep. Brad Miller, D-N.C., said that by attempting to do away with provisions of Dodd-Frank, "my friends across the aisle" are "planting the seeds for the next financial crisis." While admitting that Dodd-Frank "isn't perfect," Miller said that whatever effect the law has had on so-called job creators "pales in comparison to the $19.2 trillion in household wealth that was lost because of the 2008 financial crisis."
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said that repealing Dodd-Frank would be the "height of irresponsibility," as the law "brought huge swaths" of unregulated areas of the market under regulation. While admitting that Dodd-Frank needs "adjustments," she argued that no one "wants to go back to unregulated" derivatives, for instance, which helped "lead to the worst economic crisis in my lifetime."
Kenneth E. Bentsen, executive vice president of public policy and advocacy at SIFMA, told the lawmakers of the aspects of Dodd-Frank that SIFMA supports, which include the creation of a uniform fiduciary standard of care for brokers and advisors providing personalized investment advice, along with the establishment of a systemic risk regulator, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), and the new Orderly Liquidation Authority intended to resolve failing systemically identified firms.
July 21 marks the second anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act being signed into law, and the House Financial Services Committee is planning to challenge its merits all month long. The second hearing will be held tomorrow by the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee and is entitled "The Impact of Dodd-Frank's Home Mortgage Reforms: Consumer and Market Perspectives." Dennis Kelleher, president & CEO of Better Markets, a nonprofit advocate of financial reform, testified that one immediate remedy Congress could make to reign in Wall Street was to "fund regulators adequately." The Street, he said, "is constantly overwhelming them; it's an unfair fight." Regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) "are so grossly underfunded that they don't have the manpower or technology to keep up with the industry" or Wall Street.
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Those testifying were: Bentsen of SIFMA; Deas, vice president and treasurer of FMC Corp.; Tom Deutsch, executive director of the American Securitization Forum; Kelleher of Better Markets; Thomas Lemke, general counsel and executive vice president of Legg Mason & Co., on behalf of the Investment Company Institute (ICI); Anne Simpson, senior portfolio manager, CalPERS; and Paul Vanderslice, president, Commercial Real Estate Finance Council.
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