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Driving Sustainable Supply Chain Change

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Tender documents and responsible source guidance are requiring suppliers to show evidence of their actions to support ESG initiatives, as well as the actions of their suppliers. A procurement professional I recently spoke to said “it’s coming at us thick and fast, so we’ve got to be ready for it.” MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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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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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The abstract notes that the research paper “ documents that shifts in the pattern of U.S. The report observes that for Apple ’s supply network, Vietnam and India are the new benefactors in a China Plus sourcing shift along with other supplier hot spots in Asia that are currently playing out.

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Unleashing your potential: outsourcing strategic processes

KEPLER Consulting

Many procurement departments do not dedicate enough expertise and time to scope for new, qualified suppliers and insure comprehensiveness and robustness of supplier market screening. Moreover, supplier scouting could be extremely time consuming if the focus on the most promising areas is not enough defined and documented.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Procurement will play a key role in monitoring supply base conditions.

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Poole Graduate Joydeep Ganguly believes in a “Goodness Chain” at Gilead Science

NC State SCRC

I’ve had the opportunity to visit the Gilead Foster City campus on a number of occasions, and have documented some of the remarkable work of his team in managing the construction of a new R&D lab on their campus. The author of the article notes that he comes from a family deeply committed to the medical pro­fession.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I spent a long time with Bechtel doing large projects all around the world including Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, and India. In India I led a project doing the first deep sea / offshore gas development in the Bay of Bengal with a company called Reliance, owned by one of the richest people in the world.