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Procurement 101: Your Essential Guide to Strategic Sourcing

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Value-add : Procurement aims to add value by optimizing processes, consolidating spend, and building supplier relationships. The goal is to find suppliers capable of delivering based on specifications, pricing, quality, capacity, and other factors. Purchasing focuses specifically on the buying transaction.

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Supply Chain Collaboration – The New Way to Drive Value!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Supply chain collaboration is a hot topic today and no wonder: companies that collaborate effectively across the supply chain have enjoyed dramatic reductions in inventories and costs, together with improvements in speed, service levels, and customer satisfaction. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Making The Right Choices.

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What is a Sourcing Agency and How does it work?

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Task-Specific Services: Primarily involved in tasks like supplier identification, negotiation, and quality control. Here, the agency seeks to understand the client’s specific needs, budget constraints, and quality standards. Throughout the production process, the agency implements rigorous quality control measures.

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Process Based Inventory Turnover Improvement!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. In our experience the best way to systemically, and sustainably, optimize inventory is to take a process based inventory turnover improvement approach. The global Inventory management business processes that we focussed on made phenomenal improvements: Supply/Demand Planning.

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Analyzing Product Costs: A Question of ‘What If’

Supply Chain Brain

Suppliers with poor quality or delivery records will also be ejected from the mix.) Creating a long horizon is important because the buyer need to have an accurate sense of a supplier’s total capacity for producing over time. But the system also has to be constantly adjusting its conclusions as the supplier nears its delivery date.

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