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Sourcing trees are popular: here is a second example

Sourcing trees are popular: here is a second example

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In october last year, I’ve explained – shortly I admit, but with a nice exhibit – what a sourcing tree is (product / service categorisation). If I recon my stats about my popular posts, this is definitly one of interest. So, here is a more extensive example of a sourcing tree (which I used in real in my first life – i.e. not in second life ;-)). Enjoy, it’s free. Still!

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4 Comments

  1. David Rotor 9 February 2007

    Jean-Phillippe,

    Thanks for sharing your sourcing tree, I look forward to exploring it for new ideas. I follow a similar approach to natural categorization, and have opened the category hierarchy approach I use to wiki style collaboration at , I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on the similarities and divergence between the two approaches.

    Cheers,

    David Rotor

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  2. jp.massin 9 February 2007

    Hey David, You’re welcome, and btw, congratulation for your blog I discovered lately. I don’t get your point really about the ‘2 approaches’. do you mean Blog vs Wiki?

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  3. David Rotor 9 February 2007

    Thanks JP. By “2 approaches” I meant our respective approach (and the category content) for sourcing trees. After reading your tree and comparing it with the category hierarchy approach here are some initial thoughts.

    While we are both using a hierarchal approach only two levels seem to have similar content. Even though both have a three tier structure I don’t have anything comparable to the content of your category, and you don’t aggregate at a level similar to my Family

    JP: Family -> Category -> Sourcing Group
    DR: Family -> Group -> Category

    JP -> DR
    n/a -> Family (my highest level of aggregation)
    Family -> Group
    Category -> n/a
    Sourcing Group -> Category

    Cheers,

    David Rotor

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  4. jp.massin 9 February 2007

    Right. 3 points:

    1. I’ve shown only 3 levels but there is a more precise one after the SGs which is ‘SG item’ or ‘SG families’ (SGI or SGF)

    2. This post is following this one:
    http://www.massin.eu/example-of-a-sourcing-tree/ where you can see that the logical levels are 1) Category – 2) Family – 3) SG – 4) SGI (not said)

    3. then, our categorisation tree is basically the same but with different names:
    JP: Category -> Family -> Sourcing Group -> SGI
    DR: ( n.a. ) -> Family -> Group -> Category

    Don’t know if I’m crystal clear…

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