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An Interview on Lessons from 25 years in Procurement with Peter Bolle

HICX Solutions

Peter is a former Senior Strategic Procurement Manager at Air Canada , who, after more than 25 years at the organization, has a wealth of experience in areas including strategic sourcing, category management and supplier management. How Procurement and Supply Chain in aviation industry changed over the years.

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SYNOPSlS: Unlocking Greater Value in Your Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

On the ground and in person with supply chain industry professionals networking and learning in a safe environment. Raymon has over twenty five years experience in the Logistics industry as an end user and service provider. Samsung Roundtable Presented by LogiSYM. Held Last January 27, 2022.

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SYNOPSlS: Augmentation of the Logistics Workforce

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Raymon has over twenty five years experience in the Logistics industry as an end user and service provider. His experience covers the full Logistics spectrum, from raw material procurement to physical distribution and eventually Customer Service and care, with a strong grounding in Quality and Six Sigma.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. The problem with supplier visibility is bookended into procurement processes that have gone back, not forward over the last decade. Each year, in the countdown to the summit, we analyze the industry trends and celebrate the winners. Reflection. I thought it would be easy.

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

The impact of the elongation of payables on receivables varies by industry, but on average across the industries increased eighteen days when comparing the past five years to the pre-recession years. It is worse in some industries. Days of Receivables by Industry. Days of Inventory by Industry. My takeaway?

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Top 10: Procurement Start-Ups

HICX Solutions

HICX Founded: 2004 Location: San Francisco, US CEO: Costas Xyloyiannis HICX specialises in helping organisations optimise their supplier management processes, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and transparency throughout the supplier lifecycle. See Procurement Mag’s list

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6 Things We've Learned from McDonald's Procurement Management

AFFLINK

In the foodservice industry, there are few better examples of great procurement management than McDonald's. Excellent procurement is part of the reason that McDonald's has been able to grow from a small family barbecue restaurant into a global conglomerate with more than 35,000 restaurants in over 110 different countries.