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Supplier-Led Innovation Workshop

Supply Chain View from the Field

So the Chief Procurement Officer approached Texas Instruments and HP Micro, producers of the best analog chips at the time, and brokered a deal in which TI and HP would collaborate to create a chip set for Nokia. In 2003, Nokia was in a lawsuit and could not use Qualcomm chips in their phones. To see more, see: [link].

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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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EcoVadis Client Committee: Interview with Corey Billington

EcoVadis

For its 2014 Client Committee EcoVadis had the pleasure to welcome Corey Billington , a pioneer in the field of Supply Chain Management and former VP of procurement at Hewlett-Packard.

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Procuring Logistics Services is Not the Same as Buying Paper Clips

Talking Logistics

In a Forbes blog post last week, Kate Vitasek highlighted an issue that continues to negatively affect 3PL-customer relationships: Procurement organizations looking to shift more and more risk on third-party logistics providers — while, of course, also demanding lower costs. Positive reviews declined 3.5 Time for a New RFP.

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EcoVadis Client Committee 2013

EcoVadis

Around 120 attendees, representatives of 53 EcoVadis client companies coming from Europe and United States joined to spend a day dedicated to Sustainable Supply Chain and Procurement topics. Morning session was dedicated to vision and future development of EcoVadis and Sustainability in general.

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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! In addition, the BioPreferred database contains very few forest products or traditional textile fiber products, as these were only recently added to the biobased sector in the 2014 Farm Bill.

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Supply Chain Management:Global Template Solution - Approach

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Once the teams are (both client and service provider) identified and logistics are planned the next step is to conduct process design workshops. Procurement Blog. January 2014. Customer Service.