ivalua

APRIL 1, 2020

New York, NY March 30, 2020 – Consus , a leading procurement services provider, today announced that Intalere, a healthcare supply chain GPO based in St. The company chose Consus and Ivalua for their deep capabilities in the Source to Contract space to support their critical purchasing processes. About Consus.

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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Offshore ultra-deep water drilling company to deploy eSourcing globally across its purchasing function. Pacific Drilling, an offshore drilling company, provides global deep water drilling services to the oil and natural gas industry through the use of high-specification drillships.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The solution was too black box.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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SCM Research

MARCH 22, 2013

Consequently, companies have concentrated on core competencies like processing or marketing to meet customer requirements. Unraveling the food supply chain: Strategic insights from China and the 2007 recalls The Journal of Supply Chain Management, 44 (1), 22-39 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-493X.2008.00043.x. Pullman, M., & Gray, J.

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EcoVadis

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

First of all, on behalf of the team here, we can thank our Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Pierre-François Thaler and Frédéric Trinel for their tireless dedication, and who have devoted their intelligence, passion and seemingly endless energy to building EcoVadis since 2007. Bravo, and thank you! The market has spoken. Destination: Growth!

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I define collaboration as the ability to establish long-term win/win value propositions between and among companies. Yet, only 20% of companies actively manage supplier development programs to get cash to suppliers in need. In times of growth, when companies are funding inventory builds, cash is needed. Let me explain.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 3, 2021

According to IHS Markit, March US purchasing manager’s index (PMI) was the second strongest since data collection began in May 2007. Grainger’s earnings call, the CEO said, “We expect a lot of messiness in the supply chain” If large B2B companies such as W.W. Home Depot is growing its B2B e-commerce as well.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As concerns about environmental impact, fuel cost, and distribution methods have come into the purview of the public eye the way company's operate their supply chains are changing. As customers and companies become more conscious of green practices the planning and management of each link of the supply chain is open to review.

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EcoVadis

JUNE 15, 2011

which effectively persuaded the largest toy company in the world to promise to establish a sustainable procurement policy. Mattel, who suffered from major supply chain issues in 2007 when lead was detected in their toys and who spent US $110 million on “reputation repair”, are in the spotlight once again.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

In reporting of the latest investment, The Wall Street Journal observed that the total investment represents Amazon’s largest investment in another company since its founding 30 years ago. Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities.

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 25, 2013

Larson et al 2007 indicated that, based on a literature review, there are 4 types of interaction as below, Reproduced from Larson et al 2007. (1) 2) The job title "logistics analyst" will become "supply chain analyst" if companies feel SCM is the new term for logistics (Re-labeling). (3) 5) New Definition.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2015

PRISM started out as a pilot production line (9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday), but we were so successful, the company quickly decided to scale us into a high-volume operation (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Procurement sourcing and tail spend solutions provider Fairmarkit announced the completion of a $35.6 Co-founded in 2017 by CEO Kevin Frechette, COO Tarek Alaruri, and CTO Victor Kushch, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and has offices in New York and Poland. Fastest-growing private companies.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2023

auto companies. This past week provided a different and unexpected set of events, at least for Ford Motor Company. Southern States and the UAW agreeing to a two-tiered wage system for entry level workers in 2007 in the midst of the bankruptcy fears of two of these automakers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I launched my second business, a strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm in 2007. That company grew organically and supported over 100 companies ranging from Fortune 100 companies to fast growing businesses building their first procurement function. Traditionally, it has been very process driven.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. I have followed both of these companies for 15 years and writing this post is bittersweet. The founders remain, and the company is private, and tightly-held.

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EcoVadis

APRIL 11, 2012

Companies are in a continuous state of flux and evolution, and they have to be in order to survive. It is undeniable that companies which advance towards Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) are not only committing themselves to the methods of sustainability but are committing them the long-term business continuation.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As Senior Vice-President, Corporate services for BCE, André Beaulieu is responsible for an $8B procurement portfolio, one of the largest in Canada, and the Value Creation team who leads all major restructuring initiatives as well as the integration of all BCE acquisitions. Kearney and Bain & Company in Paris and Boston.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Companies that directly connect financial data to supply chain data without creating a feasible plan at an item/location level rate themselves significantly lower on S&OP effectiveness creating higher costs, levels of inventory and order short shipments. Companies need to rethink the misguided thinking on one-number forecasting. #2

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EcoVadis

MAY 21, 2012

Could we imagine in 2007, when climate change was the feature story across main stream magazine covers following the release of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, that five years later not much would have been done to address the topic? Advancements in Sustainable Procurement.

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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Offshore ultra-deep water drilling company to deploy eSourcing globally across its purchasing function. Pacific Drilling, an offshore drilling company, provides global deep water drilling services to the oil and natural gas industry through the use of high-specification drillships.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 16, 2021

March 2007 John F. And in this new era of innovation, where increasing supply chain resiliency and agility is key, we cannot stand idle. This quarter, we have 177 additional features planned. Read more about our technology journey at chrobinson.com/technology. Determined by: October 2000 Peter Lyman and Hal R. exabytes of data was produced.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 13, 2013

It seems that companies who seek to identify problems and issues in their supply chain, and who intend to do the right thing, are not always rewarded by the markets for doing so. One would naturally assume that companies that are “doing the right thing” would be rewarded in the market… but is it so? And their stock?

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2015

Nonetheless, my takeaways below from the recent GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference provides some insight about the company, it’s success to date, and where it’s heading (assuming Infor doesn’t make any significant changes). Ajesh Kapoor @GTNexus : “Focus of #TMS shifting beyond cost reduction to improving customer experience.”

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

ERP systems are deemed to be a critical enabler for real-time information sharing to align business decisions and to increase visibility to transactions across internal functions is the largest technological investment for Fortune 500 companies. procurement activities.

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EcoVadis

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

This is creating a ‘triple-whammy’ of imperatives for procurement teams — and their trading partners — to monitor and manage risk, while at the same time exposing new sources of value that will be the key differentiators in the future. Continuous improvements : traditional compliance approaches are often based on one-off audits.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

unionized auto companies. He went on to explain that this prior era included the economic shocks of the seventies and the global financial crisis in 2007 to 2008 when the real threat of two of the three U.S. automakers facing bankruptcy.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Unfortunately, all too often, companies rely on spreadsheets, push them to their limits, and use them in ways in which they never were intended. A poor procurement choice based on stale data can lead to a decline in profits. There is a major issue with the lack of revision control and auditing. That won’t end well.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 2, 2012

Emptoris solutions bring more intelligence to procurement and supply chain operations with spend, supplier and contract management for Smarter Commerce. Additional capabilities Emptoris brings to IBM’s Smarter Commerce include: Automation of buying processes allowing companies to respond rapidly to customer demands of new digital marketplace.

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Shipsy

MAY 17, 2018

Despite entering India way back in 2007, Walmart till now, operated only 21 stores catering to B2B segment across the country. It has been almost a decade that the company is finding it difficult to expand its retail operations due to country’s restrictive foreign direct investment policy (FDI) for retail operations.

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KEPLER Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

After all, companies need to minimize and monitor the most harmful supply chain management practices. This can only be achieved by addressing the elimination of the worst practices in the organization, processes, and digital resources of the company. The importance of a robust supply chain. Some examples of worst practices.

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EcoVadis

AUGUST 22, 2011

In China, the textile industry was classified as the top 5 most polluted industries in 2007, which is caused by waste water discharge (containing toxic and hazardous substances) from “wet processing” technology which includes dyeing, washing, printing and finishing.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Steamship companies will dedicate vessels that permanently go eastbound and westbound. He notes that this is similar to the 2006-2007 market where capacity was becoming constrained. This is impacting how you think about managing the network, and in procurement.

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EcoVadis

JANUARY 3, 2012

The Act was originally adopted by the State of California in 2010 and it requires impacted companies to disclose their efforts, if any, to ensure their direct supply chains are free from slave labor and human trafficking. In fall 2007, Gap Inc. Chief Procurement Officers, procurement professionals, etc.)

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EcoVadis

JUNE 17, 2013

This will lead to a more effective and transparent management of ICT Supply chains and will allow companies to better report to their different stakeholders. Furthermore, E-TASC will illustrate results on real social and environmental improvements across the Supply Chain and consequently on increasing value for the companies.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 8, 2018

Now it's a living, breathing activity that many companies must embrace publicly to ensure support from employees, shareholders and customers. To that end, each year companies are ranked on how well they are doing with these policies. Also in 2017, 76% of the company’s 10 priority ingredients were sustainably sourced.

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