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Procurement and Purchasing

Procurement is the effective acquisition of goods or services. It is important that the goods/services procured are appropriate and that they are purchased at the lowest possible price to meet the needs of the purchaser in terms of quality and quantity, time, and location. Procurement.com offers a comprehensive collection of insightful articles chronicling procurement best practices and purchasing intelligence.
  
“Sustainability starts with the sourcing of our ingredients,” Bas Schneiders ... ...
Premium Beauty News Weleda is well known for its natural medications and beauty products. How naturalness combines with sustainability? Bas Schneiders - Actually, the two of them are closely linked. Sustainability is in our DNA, it is the starting point of our corporate identity and it goes hand in Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/8/2012 12:16 PM
 
  
RFIDs Next Generation of End Users - RFID Journal
I recently received a wonderful note from Josh Birdwell, a high-school student attending the Francis Tuttle Technology Center, who became excited about radio frequency identification and conceived a project to utilize the technology to track his schools inventory. I was so moved by Joshs enthusiasm that I published Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/8/2012 12:15 PM
 
  
Supply Chain Conference 2012 commenced - News Tribe
This year’s conference theme was ‘Improving Business Productivity through Excellence in End to End Supply Chain Management’. After successfully organising the Cold Chain conference in 2011, SCAP has achieved yet another milestone by organizing a successful conference on End Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/8/2012 8:10 AM
 
  
Time to tear up 
the travel policy?
A contributor to a recent study into the future of corporate travel suggested one of the major sources of stress exists because providers “are not incentivised to make life any easier for passengers”. The same criticism could levelled at some business travel processes and policies. They are in place for the company’s benefit, not the [...
Supply Management Procurement Blog  -   5/8/2012 4:00 AM
 
  
Highmark launches new supply chain services organization to serve hospitals ... - NEWS.GNOM. ...
Highmark Inc. has launched ProtoCo™ Supply Chain Partners, a new supply chain services organization to help hospitals reduce costs and achieve higher standards of patient care. Part of Highmark’s new Integrated Delivery System, ProtoCo opened for business on April 9, and on April 30 it drew the interest Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 11:04 PM
 
  
Contracts for May 07, 2012
Contracts valued at $5 million or more are announced each business day at 5 p.m.
US Department of Defense  -   5/7/2012 5:13 PM
 
  
J. Polep Distribution Services Selects VAI for Its ERP Needs - Supply & Demand Chain ...
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software provider Vormittag Associates Inc. (VAI) equipped  J. Polep Distribution Services with its S2K for Food Enterprise Management software to help the convenience distributor grow and streamline its operations, while increasing efficiency and profitability. “As a top supplier of a host of products ranging
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 3:26 PM
 
  
2012 Supply Chain Software Users Survey - Logistics Management
The results of Logistics Management’s Annual Software Users Survey over the past few years revealed that economic woes and corporate cutbacks suppressed reader spending in 2009-2010. However, the results of our 2012 study are in, and it seems as if supply chain software spending is back to Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 3:01 PM
 
  
NXP leads contactless ticket market with 74% market share - telecomlead.com
NXP is leading the contactless ticketing market with 74 percent market share. ABI Research said shipments of the MIFARE range (Classic, Plus, Ultralight, and DESFire) remain strong despite security concerns around the Classic product. Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 12:01 PM
 
  
Your Are the New Vice President of Supply Chain Management! Now What? - Logistics Viewpoints
If you were hired as the top Supply Chain Management executive at a company, what would be your top three initiatives to improve the company’s capabilities? Here is my list: 1.   Get the right people on board! You can’t accomplish anything else if you don’t have the right talent. The toughest Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 12:00 PM
 
  
WNS Enters Into Strategic Partnership with GT Nexus - Virtual-Strategy Magazine
WNS (Holdings) Limited (WNS) (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with GT Nexus, a market leading cloud-based supplychain service provider, to deliver platform-based BPO services and solutions to Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 10:01 AM
 
  
Ryder Expands Food Packaging Capability - TheStreet.com (press release)
Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), a leader in supply chain, warehousing, and transportation management solutions, today announced it has expanded its food packaging and distribution capability by investing in significant enhancements to its 327,000-square-foot food packaging and distribution center in Beaver Dam, Wis. Strategically located in the
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 8:49 AM
 
  
Jebel Ali named Shipping Port of the Year - African Manager
DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali Port has won the prestigious Shipping Port of the Year Award at the annual Supply Chain and Transport Awards (Scata) 2012. The award, Jebel Ali’s fourth in six years, was received on behalf of DP World by Mohammed Ali Ahmed, chief operating officer, Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 8:06 AM
 
  
Meritor Adds to Commercial Truck Segment - Truckinginfo
Meritor made three personnel announcements for its Commercial Truck division: Joe Plomin is the new vice president, Global Brakes; Chris Snodgrass is the new vice president, Axles & Drivelines; and Chris Villavarayan is the new vice president, Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management. Plomin will lead the companys Americas and European
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 2:34 AM
 
  
The Morning Briefing: WiFi services - SmartPlanet.com (blog)
“The Morning Briefing” is SmartPlanet’s daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we’re reading about WiFi services. 1.) Boingo to manage, operate WiFi services for NYC subway system. Boingo Wireless, a provider of WiFi software and services worldwide, announced an agreement with Transit Wireless to manage and operate WiFi Read mor
Supply Chain Review  -   5/7/2012 12:00 AM
 
  
Inventory Accuracy Improves Performance on Logistics Metrics - IndustryWeek
Inventory accuracy is the variance between perpetual inventory and physical inventory. It is an important part of supply chain management because organizations that allow their inventory accuracy to drop run several risks. Misleading inventory levels may make it seem that these organizations have more inventory than they Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/6/2012 10:21 PM
 
  
Cutting Complexity in chemical logistics - ICIS (subscription)
As the chemical industry responds to global economic and social trends, the third-party logistics sector will have to find ways to manage in a complex world Moores Law is a rule of thumb in the history of computing hardware that says the number of transistors that can Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/6/2012 6:00 PM
 
  
Value of awarded Saudi contracts in Q1 up to $14bn - Construction Week Online
The value of construction contracts awarded during Q1 in Saudi has risen year on year by nearly $1bn to $14bn, with 44% of awards in the industrial sector, and a further 30% in government budget focus areas. The information compiled in the National Commercial Bank (NCB) quarterly Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/6/2012 12:40 PM
 
  
Tamkeen launches Warehouse Management Training and Employment Programme - AME Info
Tamkeen is a semi-autonomous yet independent authority which formulates strategic and operational plans to use the fees collected by the LMRA in order to enhance the overall prosperity of Bahrain by investing in Bahraini employability, job creation, and social support.Tamkeens main objectives are to support Bahrainis Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/6/2012 10:52 AM
 
  
Source One Will Present “Effectively Measuring and Reporting Cost Savings” to ... ...
In many companies, there is a disconnect between financing and procurement departments which leads to disputed reports and misrepresented numbers Willow Grove, PA (PRWEB) May 05, 2012 William R. Dorn, Jr. and Joseph Payne, of Source One Management Services, LLC and co-authors of “Managing Indirect Spend: Read more...
Supply Chain Review  -   5/5/2012 3:02 AM