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EcoVadis Client Committee 2014

EcoVadis

Exchanging experiences , best practices and insights on Sustainable Procurement has always been at the heart of our annual Client Committee. Therefore, for its 2014 edition, what a better location for our event than Palais Brongniart, the ancient Paris stock exchange ?

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7 Strategic Performance Business Practices with 3PL KPIs and 4 KPI Problems to Solve

GlobalTranz

Solution 1 : This can be significantly improved by engaging a consulting team to review existing KPIs and recommend changes. Solution 2 : Helping managers and employees to understand the meaning of their KPIs is conducted through workshops run by a logistics service provider.

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult. We easily navigate the digital world in our personal lives, but enterprise software is not digital.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

In fact, speakers at the December 2014 BIO conference noted that the level of VC funding was at a 4-year low! The global apparel sector’s effort resulted in the development of the Higg Index, a universally accepted LCA tool and life cycle inventory database. Insight #7: The Federal Government Can Do More in Purchasing Bioproducts.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. The CIO budget is hamstrung with system upgrades and software license payments. This is the world view of finance and why there is so much friction between procurement and finance. Barrier #1.

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Is More Innovation in Education Required?

Enterra Insights

Jordan Shapiro ( @jordosh ), a Senior Fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, concludes, “We need to educate a creative and innovative workforce for the information economy. ” The Washington Post , 21 July 2014. [4] ” Footnotes. [1] 2] Staff, “ Brown v.

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