QAD

JUNE 8, 2021

This quote is actually from an article published in July 2011. According to Deloitte , only 18% of chief procurement officers say they are formally tracking risk in their direct (Tier 1) supplier base and only 15% have visibility beyond that. Does this sound like a quote you have read over and over again in 2021?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2019

A cold chain is a temperature-controlled supply chain for perishable food products, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals in order to maintain their quality and increase their shelf-life. Enhances food safety and quality. good quality pallets, correct use of packing materials). Balances and manages the supply and demand of food.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

The scarcity of skilled professionals in areas such as logistics, procurement, and data analytics can hinder the ability to effectively manage and optimize supply chains. For instance, during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Toyota’s robust supply chain resilience allowed it to quickly recover and restore operations.

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Proxima

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Many things are currently making procurement prominent, but not all of them will have a longer-term impact. Procurement does not operate in a business vacuum. “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” ? Yogi Berra. You are mortal. The lazy route of predicting takes trends visible today and extrapolates.

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EcoVadis

APRIL 11, 2012

When new clients come to us they often have many questions about the right steps to take in order to ensure effective implementation of their sustainable procurement program. Procurement professionals are an extraordinarily busy breed and are especially bogged down with supplier data on cost, quality, delivery, price, etc.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 19, 2016

In the last three years we’ve developed our strategy, centralised procurement, purchasing and manufacturing aligned our portfolios across all categories globally and developed our exclusive brands portfolio. Pearle and GrandVision were merged in 2011 making it the right moment to align the very fragmented business.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 8, 2013

In addition, much of the power in decision-making lies in the hands of clinical trials scientists, who often have power over procurement decisions. In addition to its portfolio of drug candidates, the company has capabilities, including capacity for protein manufacturing, that are world-class in quality and scale.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Hope provided several examples, including MercuryGate’s tight integration with Freight Friend , which the company helped to launch in 2011. For additional insights on this topic, watch my recent interview with Hope on Talking Logistics, and my follow-up post, Finding Truckload Capacity: Insights on Managing the Spot Procurement Process.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 26, 2015

In March of 2011, I had the opportunity to join fellow supply chain management bloggers Trevor Miles and Lora Cecere in a Kinaxis sponsored thought-leadership webcast focusing on the potential of the social supply chain. Determining if certain products are experiencing extraordinary quality problems on a near real-time basis.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The strategy was always risky, yet despite several notable supply chain disruptions, including a fire at a plant belonging to one of its suppliers, and the Japanese Tsunami in 2011, Toyota never suffered any significant inventory shortages. What Next for Toyota IM?

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Requis

JUNE 12, 2020

The benefits of digital twins can range from keeping track of asset collections and locations, to quality control, to driving efficiency. Even though procurement tends to get the spotlight when the focus is on supply chain, asset management is the foundation of the enterprise. Finding system-wide efficiencies.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 11, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Traditional Supply Chain Management focuses on Total Quality, optimum Cost and best service which in some way contributed to environment. Procurement Blog. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. We came up with an action plan of having a MDM Quality Report based on Product-Locations master data, Transportation Lanes & Production Process Models (PPM) master data from APO Production environment. Distribution.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The Ford warning caused the company’s stock to fall 12 percent, the biggest one-day loss since 2011. Jonathan Jennings, Vice President, Supply Chain , was assigned additional responsibility for supplier technical assistance and quality. As has been the pattern with other warnings by companies related to supply chain challenges.

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EcoVadis

DECEMBER 11, 2017

EcoVadis was recently chosen as an independent third-party solution provider for the new “ Responsible Beauty Initiative ,” which is a procurement initiative created by four European leaders in the cosmetics industry (Clarins, Coty, Groupe Rocher and L’Oréal) as well as all of their suppliers. Powered by EcoVadis. Don’t just take it from us.

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EcoVadis

AUGUST 10, 2012

As more and more companies decide to conduct large scale Sustainable Procurement programs, financing increasingly presents a bottleneck, and companies are thinking of new solutions to overcome it. Ownership is important and enables better quality. And you know what? It is working. Practices are evolving towards collaboration.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Along with the above mentioned operations engineering quality and reliability piece is of at most importance to the OFS companies. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).

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RFgen

OCTOBER 23, 2016

According to Reuters Africa, Nestle began its coffee operations in South Sudan back in 2011 after the region split from Sudan due to strife relating to oil disputes and ethnic divides. million into procuring resources from South Sudan and training coffee farmers. Nestle made efforts to repair the war-torn area, investing $2.5

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RFgen

OCTOBER 23, 2016

According to Reuters Africa, Nestle began its coffee operations in South Sudan back in 2011 after the region split from Sudan due to strife relating to oil disputes and ethnic divides. million into procuring resources from South Sudan and training coffee farmers. Nestle made efforts to repair the war-torn area, investing $2.5

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. This new methodology has paved the path for delivering software within schedule and with exceptional quality adopting agile practices. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 8, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. They have to understand that in order to expect customer loyalty towards their products, its imperative to concentrate more on quality, brand value, after sales service, customer support and not just pricing.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. One such reason was lack of quality data in the EAM systems. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Human Resources.

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APRIL 2, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. This enables the warehouse staff to work for long periods without any problems with just wearing lightweight, high-quality headsets. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 2, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Supply Chain Control Tower Readiness- Part One | Main | Supply Chain Visibility: The need & qualities of an effective system » Supply Chain Control Tower Readiness- Part Two. Procurement Blog.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 24, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Confluence of IT and Business Strategy for a Transformation program | Main | SAP acquired Ariba, what does it mean for the on-demand, procurement and SAP world? Procurement Blog. Customer Service.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

AUGUST 29, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. This in turn helps bring about better quality, reduced rework, increased on-time delivery and reduction in lead times. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). October 2011.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 30, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. The concern at the time of buying online is the quality should be good and items should have sufficent no. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). Customer Service.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 10, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. « Supply Chain Visibility: The need & qualities of an effective system | Main | How to make Preventive Maintenance a way of life in SAP APO Support Projects - Part 1 » My own power Generation plant.

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FLEXE

MARCH 5, 2017

The growing company began selling clothes under its own name, it procured a distribution center in Kentucky, and venture capitalists started to take notice—leading to at least $40 million in funding. But, because it operated at such low product minimums, it struggled to source quality factories that produced quality product.

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Supply Chains Rock

APRIL 21, 2010

Timed perfectly with Earth Day, IBMs procurement arm has come out with a bold effort requiring its 30,000 suppliers in 60 countries to advance their sustainability efforts. While no deadline has been put in place, John Paterson, IBMs CPO hopes to have compliance by 2011. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The Ariba infrastructure is so heavily entrenched in indirect procurement processes that it is hard to adapt to the solution to manage direct materials in the supply chain. Today, GT Nexus is privately held with 43% ownership by Warburg Pincus Equity Firm. I am not surprised.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 6, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Customers who are interested to buy a product online or are sure that the product cannot be returned are particularly concerned about the quality and the correct utility of the product. Procurement Blog.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. The problem in most organizations is that their data sucks, both in quality and timeliness. I wrote a research paper for IBM in 2011 on how the federal government should prepare for the next pandemic, and I’m pretty sure it just gathered dust.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

At the Business for Social Responsibility 2011 Conference in San Francisco earlier this month, a panel of experts including Monique Oxender, Global Manager for Supply Chain Sustainability at Ford Motor Company, spoke on a panel about Conflict Minerals and discussed how to deal with this issue.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The Company offers nationwide access to state-of-the-art service facilities, 5,900 certified technicians, and a dedication to superior repair quality, safety, speed, and full visibility. Ryder is also a recipient of the 2011 NGV Achievement Award.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Since 2011, the USDA BioPreferred voluntary label has been in the market place and now has been applied to more than 20,000 certified products. Manufacturers go through a certification process that has been developed in a partnership with ASTM International to ensure quality control and consistent results.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 30, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. I recently came across an interesting write-up from consultancy firm, Arthur D Little, on how a few Oil majors have re-structured their E&P ops by combining three divisions - Projects, Technology and Procurement (PTP).

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