EcoVadis

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For Bekaert’s Chief Procurement Officer Ton Geurts , the continuity and benefits from sustainable development can only be guaranteed when it becomes more integrated into business. “ Sustainability is business, and business is sustainability ”, he said during his keynote in the CSR Day. Here are a few highlights of the event: .

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. In addition, users are able to view events of a shipment, imaged documents, and can email their account representative with questions on a particular move. Robinson load numbers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

The biggest career transformation for me was after leaving Dell when I joined Lucent in 2002 and entered supply chain in technology sourcing. The first huge project I was part of at Dell was our transformation from paper documents in the computer boxes for businesses to what we called E-Docs for electronic documentation.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Research from APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in procurement shows that organizations without formal SRM programs report 121 percent longer supplier lead times.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As an example, Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325) encompasses a variety of chemical manufacturing codes including petrochemicals (3251), but none for biobased chemicals. biobased chemicals as a sub-sector of the chemicals industry) as well as insights and guidance from industry representatives.

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Unleashed

MARCH 9, 2021

What is procurement? In simple terms business procurement is the process of locating and acquiring goods and services from external sources for the business to use. Procurement activities include planning, sourcing, and negotiation, along with risk management, legal and value analysis.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

After all, a clear picture of the company's procurement process is necessary to develop a sustainable future strategy and to avoid pitfalls that hold your business back. Spend analysis involves spend visibility , spending review , and procurement process improvement. The answer is simple: spend analysis.

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RFgen

AUGUST 14, 2017

Based on its findings, the SASC formed eight conclusions, including: Most counterfeit electronic parts in the defense supply chain are sourced from China. Does your procurement system allow you to place vendors on hold while you investigate suspected counterfeit parts? Can it apply sanctions to vendors who have supplied counterfeits?

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

chemicals, resins, IT providers). These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. Supply Market Intelligence: A Managerial Handbook for Building Sourcing Strategies , New York, NY, Auerbach Publications.

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EcoVadis

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Here are some guidelines and tools we’ve developed over the past eight years working with over 120 procurement teams from global multi-nationals, to help you gain some insight on these questions. Data verification and document audit: Collect and audit documents. and “What can I do internally, and what should I outsource?”

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 9, 2017

In a study conducted by Accenture in 2015 of chemical companies, results showed that 94 percent expect to boost their investment in digital capabilities in the next three years to embrace a competitive advantage. Historically, chemical companies buy from and sell to nearly every industry in the world, adding special demands for connectivity.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 7, 2019

Category management has a decades-long history that has lead us to our modern understanding of procurement categories. According to CIPS , category management is a strategic approach that organizes procurement resources to focus on specific areas of spend. Defining Category Management. The Category Management Process.

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EcoVadis

JUNE 13, 2019

This session brought together Kim Kipin-McDonald, Head of Sustainable Development North America at Covestro, and Stephanie Lopez, Special Programs Manager at the University of California Procurement Services, to compare and contrast how they’re leveraging sustainability ratings to drive their programs. This may lead to challenges.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

They also fail to systematically document supply chain problems, causing them to be forgotten instead of resolved. Sourcing and procurement departments exist to mitigate this issue, but input bottlenecks remain common. Not to mention that time-sensitive goods such as chemicals and food can spoil as they sit in warehouses.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They also fail to systematically document supply chain problems, causing them to be forgotten instead of resolved. Sourcing and procurement departments exist to mitigate this issue, but input bottlenecks remain common. Not to mention that time-sensitive goods such as chemicals and food can spoil as they sit in warehouses.

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6 River Systems

JANUARY 10, 2019

Keep in touch with cross-functional colleagues. “Whether you’re in procurement, supplier quality, production control or logistics, supply chain is only one ingredient in the pie of successfully bringing a product to market. Secondary and contingent supplier planning. Building and maintaining relationships in your supply chain.

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RFgen

AUGUST 5, 2020

Pre-made “Open Source” mobile supply chain apps drastically shorten implementation times and accelerate time to deployment for rapid ROI. Common supply chain transactions mobilized by the open-source include, but are not limited to: Inventory Management: Cycle Count, Inventory Issue, Inventory Transfer, Location Inquiry, and more.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

They also fail to systematically document supply chain problems, causing them to be forgotten instead of resolved. Sourcing and procurement departments exist to mitigate this issue, but input bottlenecks remain common. Not to mention that time-sensitive goods such as chemicals and food can spoil as they sit in warehouses.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

Lack of standardised sustainability reporting makes it difficult to compare sustainability performance between source mines, set sustainability targets and reward best practice. In other words you cannot physically differentiate a sustainably sourced REE from a non-sustainably sourced REE without the use of tagging.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Companies have been in a “wait and see” mode for the last three to six months with regard to this, and now their procurement and supply chain leadership are being forced to find new and creative ways to handle the purchasing and movement of goods on a global scale. Lu Siqi Lu Siqi is a Supply Chain Manager at SK Chemical in Shanghai.

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RFgen

AUGUST 5, 2020

Pre-made “Open Source” mobile supply chain apps drastically shorten implementation times and accelerate time to deployment for rapid ROI. Common supply chain transactions mobilized by the open-source include, but are not limited to: Inventory Management: Cycle Count, Inventory Issue, Inventory Transfer, Location Inquiry, and more.

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ThroughPut

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They also fail to systematically document supply chain problems, causing them to be forgotten instead of resolved. Sourcing and procurement departments exist to mitigate this issue, but input bottlenecks remain common. Not to mention that time-sensitive goods such as chemicals and food can spoil as they sit in warehouses.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 23, 2018

The system should cover criteria across environment, labor and human rights, ethics/anti-corruption, and the supplier’s own sustainable sourcing practices. Examples might include FSC for fiber-based products, REACH registration of chemicals in Europe, or EnergyStar for appliance makers in North America, and so on.

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