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. Established in 2007, Consus is a leading procurement services provider operating across 9 countries. has gone live with Ivalua’s Source to Contract solution.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2014

A new approach focuses on the way these products are procured. The research explores a new approach to combating drug counterfeiters: devising mitigation strategies based on the way dispensers procure medicines. Second, the procurement of counterfeit product is often the result of an inadequate supply of authentic medicines.

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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. Established in 2007, Consus is a leading procurement services provider operating across 9 countries. has gone live with Ivalua’s Source to Contract solution.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Why do we have 32 days more inventory by company in 2020 than in 2007? When companies reward OEE in manufacturing and POV in procurement, companies will systemically make the wrong stuff. I give you this evidence in this blog.). Mistake #5.

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SCM Research

JANUARY 12, 2015

The results of the study show “that Internet consumers’ trust and perceived risk have strong impacts on their purchasing decisions” The second paper by Locke, Qin & Brause (2007) asks: “ Does monitoring improve labor standards? Ferrin, D., & Rao, H. Decision Support Systems, 44 (2), 544-564 DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2007.07.001.

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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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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Supply chain efficiency and effective strategic sourcing in support of our operations and clients are critical to achieving our objective,” said Mike Curtis, Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at Pacific Drilling. We look forward to contributing to their Procurement cost optimization initiative”. About Ivalua.

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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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SCM Research

MARCH 22, 2013

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. Practice Article China Procurement Supply chain complexity Supply Chain Management' Pullman, M., & Gray, J. 2008.00043.x.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The supply chain investments of the last decade focused on improving black & white processes–order-to-cash and procure-to-pay. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. My view is that we are in phase 3 of the pandemic. In the next months, shortages and disruption loom.

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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. In 2019, it re-acquired HD Supply, a company it sold in 2007. Manufacturing is gaining steam not only in the US but around the world as businesses return to a COVID-19 type of redefined normalcy.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities. Rockville, Maryland based OCR specializes in content and services related to export compliance and controlled commodities, denied party screening, license procurement and product classification services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007. I shook my head in disgust at the waste in the process. This was not a new relationship.

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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) This implies that the army relied on "replenishment progress (process). 4) Relationship Between 2 Terms. The difference between 2 terms has been very confusing for practitioners.

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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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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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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Pratt’s experience immediately reminded me of what happened to Boeing back in 2007 when the company experienced a shortage of nuts and bolts used to assemble the Dreamliner , which resulted in a costly delay. Procuring logistics services is not the same as buying paper clips, yet that’s how many procurement organizations approach it.

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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. Andre Beaulieu Senior Vice-President, Corporate services for BCE.

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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. procurement #purchasing #supplychainmanagement.

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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 This provider describes itself as an AI- enabled procurement Cloud platform built for the sourcing of lower-dollar, non-strategic purchases, commonly referred to as “ tail spend.” Expands C-Suite Amid Increased Technology Demand.

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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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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 16, 2021

March 2007 John F. This quarter, we have 177 additional features planned. Shippers and carriers have been in or near peak season mode for months, and we stand side-by-side with them in constantly pushing out the kind of technology and innovation needed to help them keep pace with an unprecedented rate of change and ongoing volatility.

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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

Supply chain efficiency and effective strategic sourcing in support of our operations and clients are critical to achieving our objective,” said Mike Curtis, Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at Pacific Drilling. We look forward to contributing to their Procurement cost optimization initiative”. About Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. Traditionally E2open sold to the procurement organization. DS replaced rules-based forecast consumption with better math (statistics and pattern recognition). The Company has a checkered past.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. The further notion is cited data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that since 2003, the average hourly wage for U.S.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 14, 2015

ERP systems are designed to integrate transactions from finance, human resources, procurement, operations, sales and marketing, logistics, and other functions in a firm. procurement activities.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Let us not forget the important work on auctions that has already been conducted in our discipline, for example by Wagner & Schwab (2004) , Hartley and her coauthors (2006) and Carter & Kaufmann (2007) , to name just a few.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 13, 2013

Its inspections have turned up serious violations at hundreds of plants, but only 15 suppliers have been terminated since 2007. Procurement Sustainability Supply Chain Management Sustainability' And their stock? Taking a major hit, and dropped from a high of 700 to below 400… that’s a lot of market cap to lose.

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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.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A poor procurement choice based on stale data can lead to a decline in profits. From our eBook, S&OP in the 21st century , “An audit of 50 corporate spreadsheets in 2007 revealed that 94% had errors… one for $100 million!” There is a major issue with the lack of revision control and auditing. That won’t end well.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2015

Solutions addressing the financial side of the supply chain, including Procure-to-Pay, is another core differentiator for GT Nexus. Transportation Services Procurement: Maximizing Strategic Goals and Business Value (Del Monte, Hewlett-Packard, USSA). Johnsen @GTNexus : Data quality for ocean shipments was 59% in early 2007.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Ironically, inventory levels today are higher than they were in 2007; yet customer service levels issues abound. Most can only measure functional costs—transportation, manufacturing, and procurement. The two primary buffers in the supply chain are manufacturing capacity and inventory. The reason why? The answer is simple.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

One of the world's largest container ship lines, Maersk, signed up 1500 of its largest suppliers for its Responsible Procurement program. By 2012 they already reached their 2020 target of reducing CO2 emissions by 25 percent per container from 2007 levels. Tesla and Cummins are both preparing all electric fleets of semi-trucks.

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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. Extends Smarter Commerce capabilities to Chief Procurement Officers. Smarter Commerce helps organizations that are struggling to meet the demands of a rapidly changing market.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

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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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. Given Walmart’s competence in supply-chain management, the company can provide the much-needed push by enabling the procurement of goods at village level.

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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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