And download the new BravoSolution sponsored Sourcing Innovation WhitePaper on Taking the First Step on Your Next Supply Management Journey [registration required] today if you haven't already. The acronyms and acclamations are still flying fast and furious in the Supply Management space and phrases like VFS, Hi-Def Sourcing, Next Level Supply ...
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Time to Take the First Step on Your Next Level Supply Management Journey
Today's guest post is from Ayush Sharma, a Strategic Sourcing Consultant with Trade Extensions in the Americas. His particular speciality is the application of optimization to Retail Sourcing, Dedicated Transportation, 3PL Logistics Sourcing, and Direct and Indirect Materials Sourcing. Ayush has a Masters degree in Supply Chain Management from ...
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From Strategic Spend to Strategic Value-Add, Part IV
Today's guest post is from Ayush Sharma, a Strategic Sourcing Consultant with Trade Extensions in the Americas. His particular speciality is the application of optimization to Retail Sourcing, Dedicated Transportation, 3PL Logistics Sourcing, and Direct and Indirect Materials Sourcing. Ayush has a Masters degree in Supply Chain Management from ...
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From Strategic Spend to Strategic Value-Add, Part III
Today's guest post is from Ayush Sharma, a Strategic Sourcing Consultant with Trade Extensions in the Americas. His particular speciality is the application of optimization to Retail Sourcing, Dedicated Transportation, 3PL Logistics Sourcing, and Direct and Indirect Materials Sourcing. Ayush has a Masters degree in Supply Chain Management from ...
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From Strategic Spend to Strategic Value-Add, Part II
Today's guest post is from Ayush Sharma, a Strategic Sourcing Consultant with Trade Extensions in the Americas. His particular speciality is the application of optimization to Retail Sourcing, Dedicated Transportation, 3PL Logistics Sourcing, and Direct and Indirect Materials Sourcing. Ayush has a Masters degree in Supply Chain Management from ...
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From Strategic Spend to Strategic Value-Add, Part I
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Economic growth is expected to continue for the rest of the year, with revenue in the manufacturing and services sectors seen rising more than 4 percent, according to an industry report released on Tuesday. Manufacturing revenue is expected to increase 4.5 percent in 2012 from the year before, the semi-annual forecast from The ...
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Factory, services revenue to rise in 2012: ISM
And start by downloading the new BravoSolution sponsored Sourcing Innovation WhitePaper on Taking the First Step on Your Next Supply Management Journey [registration required] today! Lamenting that the acronyms and acclamations are flying fast and furious in the Supply Management space, with phrases like VFS. Hi-Def Sourcing. Next Level Supply ...
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Take the First Step on Your Next Level Supply Management Journey
Cost cutting has been a major focus of your average Supply Management organization for most of the decade. A few efforts have been focussed on the long term, but the majority have been short-term efforts. And this is not a good thing, because, as Patrick Dunne of Alliance Boots said in a recent article over on the CPO Agenda everything has to be ...
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Have You Reached the Summit of Cost Cutting?
Yesterday, I gave you the top 10 mega-regions in which to locate your Supply Management Centre of Excellence, and indicated the major cities in each region that should top your list. For those of you keeping count, I listed 46 cities. If you're indecisive, that's a lot of cities to choose from! So, today, I am going to give you the doctor's top ...
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the doctor's Top 10 Cities for Supply Management Centres of Excellence (Where Should Your Supply Management Organization Be Located? Part V)
Our first post in this series began the discussion of where a better-than-average Supply Management (SM) organization on the path to becoming a world-class Supply Management organization should locate its new Centre of Excellence (COE) for its new centre-led Supply Management organization. We discussed the traditional factors of customer ...
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the doctor's Top 10 Mega Regions for Supply Management COEs (Where Should Your Supply Management Organization be Located? Part IV)
