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How to Use Group Purchasing as a Cost Reduction Strategy

Una

The hardest-hit industries were those in which consumer demand plummeted: restaurants, gyms, transportation, construction, theme parks, conventions, oil and gas, automakers, discretionary travel, live sports, hotels, and (of course), airlines. Industries seeking a new cost reduction strategy.

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SRM: How to secure the new value that sustainability can bring

Positive Purchasing

In supplier relationship management (SRM), the fundamental question we ask ourselves is, ‘What do we need from our supply base?’. Surely our requirements are to have products or services supplied to the correct specification at the right time and at an acceptable price?

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7 Trending Business Practices Disrupting Procurement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Organizations are ‘going carbon neutral by 2025’, and ‘implementing Artificially Intelligent business systems’ and ‘sourcing form solely environmentally friendly suppliers’. A report in 2016 by GT Nexus, “showed there is a demand for ethically and sustainably sourced products. The survey of more than 1,100 U.S.