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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

This small island is currently in the middle of political tensions between the US and China and represents 90% of the most sophisticated chips, such as those based on gallium nitride and gallium arsenide, which are used in the defense and aerospace sector. increase in 2010, eleven years ago.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

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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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This small island is currently in the middle of political tensions between the US and China and represents 90% of the most sophisticated chips, such as those based on gallium nitride and gallium arsenide, which are used in the defense and aerospace sector. increase in 2010, eleven years ago.

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Parts Are Not Parts

Supply Chain Shaman

The largest increase is in Aerospace and Defense (A&D). PFEP optimizes the policies that define how to procure each part. PFEP enables supply chain leaders to glean a 360-degree view of their inventory and procurement policies to maximize the value of each inventory dollar. The difference is simple.

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Social Media in Supply Chain.the new trend! - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Aerospace and Defense. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010.

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Is the FAR getting in the way of Early Supplier Involvement in defense projects?

NC State SCRC

Research suggests that up to 80 percent of the total cost of a product is ‘locked in’ by the procurement organization during this early engineering concept and design. This was observed on a factory floor of a supplier producing an aerospace part designed twenty years earlier.

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Collaborative Platform for Enterprise of Future - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Aerospace and Defense. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Procurement Blog. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010.