Jaggaer

APRIL 22, 2019

Earth Day (April 22nd) is a celebration of commitment to creating a safer, healthier and cleaner world, making it a natural time to reflect on the power and value of sustainable procurement programs. Procurement at the pivot point. using a total cost of ownership strategy) and identify key risks (and related costs) to avoid.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 4, 2016

EPE – European Procurement Excellence. Venue: Hotel Atlantic Kempinski Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany). Providing procurement value in a complex world. In a world in which procurement is emerging as the key value driver for maintaining a company‘s competitive edge, the role of CPO is becoming more strategic. URL: www.bme.de/en/all-events-en/epe/.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 26, 2023

Tesla reported Q1-2023 financial performance that more than ever reinforces an ongoing strategy of fueling sales and output growth over profitability. Such a strategy has continued supply chain, production and new product introduction implications in the quarters to come. billion, with net income conversely declining 24 percent to $2.5

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Background Supply chain ethical and social responsibility, that which umbrellas ESG conformance, have increasingly become a concern for businesses, large and small, along with their procurement organizations. Governments including Canada , Germany , and the United Kingdom have enacted special legislation in these areas.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The Global Procurement & Supply Chain Management for Oil And Gas Industry 2016. Venue: Intercontinental Berlin, Germany. E&P operators and oilfield service companies press forward with their goal to discover innovative cost savings, streamline processes and devise new growth strategies to counteract the downturn.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

50 th Symposium Procurement and Logistics. Location: InterContinental, Berlin (Germany). Year after year leading experts from business and politics discuss the latest trends, successful strategies, and topical issues and best practices across a variety of sectors. Date: 11-13 November, 2015. Organisation: BME Verband.

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Procurement Academy

MARCH 2, 2023

With 65 learners based in countries including Sweden, Bulgaria, France, Switzerland, Germany, the US, Taiwan and China, they have some challenges to overcome. After implementing several new procurement processes, Group Director Purchasing, Nicolas Robardet, identified a number of competencies which required development within the team.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Check out What is Virtual Procurement and Why Should You Care? Where is procurement, outsourcing, sourcing, supply chain, and purchasing going? Secondarily, we will include information from other procurement professionals and procurement firms about their experiences, what they forecast, and what they are seeing.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 21, 2020

JAGGAER’s Amenallah Reghimi and Mic h ael Roesch recently partnered with Philip Ideson , founder and managing directo r at Art of Procurement , to bring procurement professionals a presentation on response tactics for the current global crisis. I think this will also help procurement teams learn to be agile.

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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

Here are some interesting highlights: Justification Is Key Interestingly enough, one of the most important drivers for market intelligence is justifying procurement decisions or operational decisions to internal stakeholders, like executive teams, or to customers. While this isn’t news to me, the importance it took on was. And they are.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. For more than a year, global supply chains have been buffeted by one major disruption after another. The impact?

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

Ninety percent of companies have an ESG strategy in place and chances are good yours does, too – or will very soon. ESG Regulations are Driving Investment in Sustainable Procurement Regardless of where you stand on the ethics behind ESG issues, you’d think consumer demand would be a clear driver for sustainable product development.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 13, 2023

”[1] While that is all well and good, if enterprises are going to succeed in the years ahead, sustainability efforts must be combined with climate change adaption strategies. ”[5] Blythe Chorn , a Managing Director at KPMG US, adds, “It’s time to embed climate considerations into supply chain strategies.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Maersk has unabashedly championed vertical integration for years, advocating an “end-to-end” strategy. And, not to be left behind, it’s also pursued a horizontal integration strategy, acquiring a growing fleet of airplanes. Flexport in the US, Beacon in the UK, Forto in Germany, K-Log in Latin America). No end to end-to-end.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The four largest European manufacturing economies, namely Germany, France, Italy and Spain , collectively remained at production contraction levels. The reported HCOB Germany Manufacturing PMI® for August was headlined with output levels falling at the fastest rate since May 2020, the height of the past global wide Covid-19 pandemic.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 24, 2024

Corporate Restructuring In conjunction with the formal reporting of both Q4-2023 and full year 2023 financial performance results, the Germany based technology provider announced what was described as a 2024 Transformation Program. A further component of the operating profit goal was a reported €0.5

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains. The situation is perhaps even more serious in Germany, whose auto industry has a deep and multidirectional relationship with China. Corona v irus could wreck the global auto industry.’.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Tchibo is one of Germany’s largest international consumer goods and retail companies. Founded in 1949, the company today has a turnover of €3.2 billion and employs around 10,000 people.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Global contract semiconductor chip producer TSMC announced this week plans for its first European based semiconductor facility as an extension of an evolving production regionalization strategy.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 2, 2023

However, the various Airbus global-wide production facilities, many of which are dedicated to commercial aircraft monthly production, such as A320 family, are organized under the company’s group country organizations in France , Germany , the UK and other countries.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 6, 2015

Venue: Radisson Blu Berlin 5*, Germany. The Global Procurement & Supply Chain Conference is a 2 days event being curated by the industry’s leading procurement & supply chain executives and features high-level discussion on your most pressing challenges including: Achieving excellence in internal collaboration and integration.

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SCM Research

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

The report was written by Accenture Strategy. The report reveals that suppliers in France, the UK, Spain and Germany are identified as the most sustainable ones, whereas suppliers in China, Italy and the U.S. turn out to be particularly vulnerable.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Reportedly, with the exception of Greece , all other EU countries registered PMI declines, with Germany and Austria having the fastest rates of production declines. Specifically related the Germany, the HCOB Germany Manufacturing PMI® registered a September value of 39.6 average of the three months of Q3, declined 1.5

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2022

Of added concern, manufacturing powerhouses of France, Germany, Spain and Italy each had contraction level PMI values. Germany and Italy values were noted as being 25-month lows. The report authors indicated that this was the sharpest decline in production since the initial wave of Covid-19 lockdowns in May 2020.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

But the French supplier has used components from Spain that in turn contain some parts originating in the UK and others from Germany. Supply chain managers and directors must lead their company’s Brexit strategy”, advised Enright. The supply chain in this real-life example crosses the UK border twice.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The lowest production performance and associated supply chain activity levels were reported as that of Germany , Austria , Czech Republic , United Kingdom and Poland. The four largest European manufacturing economies, namely Germany, France, Ital y and Spain , collectively remained at production contraction levels.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 1, 2022

A published Bloomberg report has the headline: “ Global Supply Lines Brace for Menacing Economic Storm to Widen- Germany feels industrial shocks from war, while China lockdowns snarl trade. ” A CNN report includes the title: “ Why the global supply chain mess is getting much worse.”. Additional Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Apple CEO Tim Cook made the disclosure during an internal company meeting held in Germany as part of a European tour. Bloomberg has separately reported that TSMC is in discussion with the government of Germany regarding the sourcing of a fab in that country. Be watchful and be prepared for the various industry implications.

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IQMS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Customers reward manufacturers who have the greatest supply chain transparency and most effective sustainability strategies with more sales. Somachini produces heavy truck timing gears for Detroit Diesel and Daimler to Germany, specializing in high precision, high volume production.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 8, 2023

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , sizable changes to data from Germany, Ireland and Finland prompted the revision. Besides Germany , Greece , Lithuania , Malta , Ireland and the Netherlands experienced quarter on quarter GDP declines. pharmaceutical companies cutting back on production.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2023

The global automaker has previously indicated a strategy to establish regionally based EV supply networks to support the major markets of Europe , China , and North America. Thomas, Ontario , upwards of a two hour drive from Detroit. Plans reportedly call for the facility to be operational by 2027.

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HICX Solutions

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For example, in Germany, the new Supply Chain Act will mean that companies with 3,000 employees or more will be accountable for any exploitation of workers in their supply chains. ESG Strategy. Visibility at the heart of sustainable procurement. Much of the drive is coming from external factors.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This week, Russia again cutoff the major natural gas pipeline to European countries including Germany. The report indicates that many economists are already predicting a recession in Germany , Italy and other areas of the Eurozone before the end of this year. Samsung Indicates a Downturn in Semiconductor Sales is Coming.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 22, 2016

Jim Hoefflin, president and COO of logistics, Kewill Driverless trucks, currently being tested in Germany and Nevada, could be revolutionary to the supply chain and might be the solution to the truck driver shortage that’s poised to have a huge negative impact on the industry. Connected devices can also support the warehouse worker (i.e.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

India again led all other regions, while Germany and Austria remain at highest levels of PMI contractionary levels. Noted in the report was that the February index drop “ was entirely driven by the largest economy of the single currency union, Germany, which registered its sharpest deterioration in four months.” compared to 46.6

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Since our founding in 2008, Supply Chain Matters has published a multitude of commentaries focused on global consumer electronics provider Apple and its supply chain component and finished goods production strategies that are concentrated in China. within a period of two years. Culpan states that the markets of Europe (23.5

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Proxima

APRIL 13, 2022

The first World Sustainable Procurement Day was quite some event and it was a great privilege to feature on a panel alongside Emma Howcroft from Avantor and Mark Freebairn from Odgers Berndtson. As Emma noted, conversations about how procurement can measure value rather than just price savings are longstanding.

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