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Procurement Compliance Explained: Examples, Challenges, and Best Practices

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or EU Regulation 178/2002. Define what compliance regulations your company needs to focus on and select metrics based on those. This metric is especially important in public procurement among government agencies. This metric helps your company identify inefficiencies in the procurement process.

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New U.S. Coast Guard Cybersecurity Rule Enters into Force

Supply Chain Brain

flagged vessels, outer continental shelf (OCS) facilities, and facilities subject to the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA), and was executed in continuation of updates to the Captain of the Port authority that definitively designated cybersecurity vulnerabilities as a potential threat to the security and safety of U.S.

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Trump Hits Mexico With 17% Tariff on Tomatoes

Supply Chain Brain

The deal was reworked to raise the price floor in both 2002 and 2008, before a new agreement that separated pricing categories for different types of tomatoes was signed in 2013. agreed to pause its investigation that same year after Mexico agreed to sell tomatoes at a set minimum price. border entries for bulk tomatoes.

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) I never calculated and accounted for the inter-dependencies between metrics.

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Clouds: A Beautiful Thing for Sure!

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2002, there was no interest. As a result, Steelwedge looks very different today than when I first met them in 2002. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. The reason? Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). First Phase: 2002-2006. Delivery Metrics: Perfect order delivery although good to continually refine. It is a story of when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

” I have been studying the evolution of inventory technologies as an industry analyst since 2002. We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. This week, I published an in-depth analysis on the topic. At Supply Chain Insights , this is our passion.