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Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

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Author: Hubert Verweij , Head of Procurement Transformation, Capgemini Invent Sweden and Finland. Hidden costs due to late deliveries or quality issues . As a result, purchases are linked to the wrong sub-category which jeopardizes the quality of spend analyses while it creates rework in the downstream process.

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

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The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers. Our discussions referred to how the industry dealt with safety and quality. Safety and quality became key buying factors during procurement. People like myself and many of the younger people too.

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Supply Chain Management:Leveraging Social Media for Improving.

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Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Customers who are interested to buy a product online or are sure that the product cannot be returned are particularly concerned about the quality and the correct utility of the product. Business Process Outsourcing.

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The Key Coffee Industry Trends For 2021 & Beyond

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Europe is the seat of coffee’s power across the world, although the UK itself only makes up a small portion of this market (compared to the likes of Finland, where consumers drink about four times as much coffee as the UK). Sources used in our figures above: IBIS World, Statista, Mordor Intelligence. Source: Statista.

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The blockchain revolution: audit efficiency & trust in sustainably certified supply chains

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It documents ideas for how certifiers can leverage blockchain technology to reduce audit inefficiency, create a single source of truth for chain of custody (CoC) tracking and support sustainability data reporting. A single source of truth for chain of custody tracking. Travelling to UPM Kymi Pulp Mill in Finland. Background.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP). Supply Chain Movement and software vendor Eyefreight have developed this checklist to provide to pinpoint the key drivers of Freight Spend Management.