Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®, July 2014 National report (USA), released by ISM on April 1, 2014. The report was issued on August 1 by Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the Institute for Supply Management™ Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. “The July PMI® registered 57.1 percent, an increase of 1.8 percentage points from June’s […]
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Sustainable Supply Chain Summit 2014 (Europe)
Sustainable Supply Chain Summit 2014 (Europe) On November 19-20 we will be attending the Sustainable Supply Chain Summit in London,UK together with our colleagues from i-Procure.se. The key themes being addressed include: Embed Sustainability: Fuse CSR and sustainability into procurement and supply chain to future-proof your viability as a business Minimise Environmental Footprint: Measure the […]
Don’t focus on 80% of spend and leave 20% on the cutting-room floor
Don’t focus on 80% of spend and leave 20% on the cutting-room floor The biggest impression left by Walter Charles III’s keynote presentation at the Procurement Leaders Americas Congress in Miami, Florida, was one of the necessary boldness and pace of change. When looking at change management, sometimes the temptation is to apply familiar templates […]
Stockholm SCP&O Executive Summit 2014
Stockholm SCP&O Executive Summit 2014 In a couple of weeks we will be attending the Stockholm SCP&O Executive Summit together with the i-Procure.se team. The summit is a part of Quintiq World Tour: “Streamlined operations. Maximized resource utilization. Optimal performance. The lowest costs for the highest profit margins. In a word: Efficiency. It’s the key […]
Manufacturing ISM Report On Business, March 2014
Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®, March 2014 National report (USA), released by ISM on April 1, 2014. The report was issued on April 1 by Bradley J. Holcomb, CPSM, CPSD, chair of the Institute for Supply Management™ Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. “The March PMI® registered 53.7 percent, an increase of 0.5 percentage point from February’s […]
Apple supplier list 2014
Apple supplier list 2014 Apple has released their list of suppliers for 2014 which includes suppliers who provide raw materials and components or perform final assembly for Apple. 3M Co. AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. Acbel Polytech Inc. ACON Group Advance Tech Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (USI) AKM Semiconductor Inc. Alcoa Inc. Alps Electric Co. Ltd. […]
Understanding Tail-Spend Management
Understanding Tail-Spend Management Below is an abstract of “Understanding Tail-Spend Management”, a GEP whitepaper. Introduction World-class organizations today have a good level of control over most of their cost structure. As this visibility and control increases, eventually a point is reached when the effort required to go further appears to be greater than the benefits. […]