FedScoop

APRIL 12, 2024

“These tools have the potential to lower the barriers and costs of practicing before the office as well as helping law practitioners offer services to their clients with improved quality and efficiency,” the notice states. “As

Ethics 125

Ethics Innovation Quality Efficiency 125

American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Leverage Group Purchasing and Cooperative Contracts for Cost Efficiency One of the most effective ways to streamline procurement is by using group/cooperative purchasing contracts. By working closely with suppliers, organizations can ensure quality, on-time deliveries, and mutually beneficial partnerships.

Purchasing 59

Purchasing Procurement Supplier Supply Chain 59

Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JULY 17, 2024

To enhance our status and ensure that we are providing optimum value without reducing quality, we can work to a LEAN approach. The logic behind LEAN is to reduce waste and make processes more efficient. Are they planning the route to be the most efficient or are they doubling back on themselves? How much stock is being held?

Inventory 59

Inventory Manufacturing Transportation Transportation 59

Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

They called for the inclusion of users and experts to ensure technical soundness and efficiency. A significant concern within the Peruvian arbitral system is the existence of arbitration centers that fail to meet even minimum quality standards.

IT 52

IT Quality Transparency Public Procurement 52

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

AWS offers a comprehensive suite of data services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for secure and scalable data storage, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth for creating high-quality training datasets, and AWS Lake Formation for building and managing data lakes with automated governance and compliance controls.

Government 80

Government Government Ethics Transparency 80

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The National Anti-Corruption Program , recently approved by the Parliament, gives civil society organizations (CSOs) and media a greater role in preventing corruption and “strengthening an ethical, corruption-free public service.” Enter Data Club This is where our work at the Mongolian Data Club comes in.

Data 121

Data Corruption Supplier Public Procurement 121

Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The changes provide not just incremental improvements for efficiency and integrity of proceedings, but also changes to reflect developing societal norms, such as environmental impact and diversity. Also, our 2024 HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules came into effect on 1 June 2024, which is a refinement of the well-received 2018 version.

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Innovation Leadership Integration 52

Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Key Issues in the Ethics of International Arbitration Practice The second panel addressed key issues in the ethics of arbitration, in a session moderated by Erin Collins (Associate, DLA Piper LLP) and a panel composed of M. The panel discussed the ethics of expert preparation across legal cultures. Further, Ms.

Ethics 52

Ethics Insurance Participation Import 52

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Public contracts matter, he says: “The government allocates 32% of the country’s budget towards goods, services, and public works, to secure the rights and enhance the quality of life for citizens. DCGP’s data quality has continuously improved over the last decade, enabling increasingly detailed analysis. Efficiency is key.

Corruption 77

Corruption Collaboration Data Public Procurement 77

Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

Essential Functions of the Job: Recommends, implements and maintains City purchasing systems for maximum efficiency and to achieve optimum life-cycle cost for all goods and services purchased. Oversees the analysis of cost, performance, quality, service and delivery.

Purchasing 100

Purchasing Management Warehouse E-procurement 100

Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 16, 2024

Electronic data review has become commonplace, offering efficiency over manual methods, especially for extensive data. However, the use of AI necessitates ethical and procedural considerations. Potential concerns arise with regard to (deep-)fakes in videos, photos and audios.

Ethics 90

Ethics Data Integrity Integration 90

GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

For one program, they increased service delivery by 20% — and without affecting the quality of service or the size of the staff. “We were asking questions around the completeness and accuracy of the data, and about getting it where we needed it and when we needed it,” Cooke said. The effort paid off.

Data 52

Data Education Quality Strategic Planning 52

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

This can help answer customer queries efficiently, pinpoint changes to contracts, and accurately assess risks such as fraud. At the bottom layer of the generative AI stack, it is vital to have high quality, up-to-date data for training the models. A critical step to achieving this is moving data to the cloud.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Data Innovation Transparency 78

Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 6, 2023

See, for example, prior coverage on Kluwer Arbitration Blog on related topics, such as building quality and trust in the arbitral process and the Spanish Arbitration Club’s code of best practice in arbitration.

IT 45

IT Ethics Participation Accountability 45

Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 8, 2024

Inter-Personal Conduct and Ethics For the first parallel panel of the early afternoon session, moderator Abby Cohen Smutny was joined by speakers Funke Adekoya , Brandon Bang , Nicolás Gálvez Solis , Matthew Gearing KC and Jonathan Lim to discuss ICCA’s Guidelines on Standards of Practice.

Participation 52

Participation Import Sustainability Ethics 52

ivalua

JUNE 1, 2022

In addition, quality is the cornerstone of the food and beverage industry and effective sourcing and forecasting is crucial to their operational success. Amrest requires efficient supply chain schedules to operate effectively to deliver high standards of customer service on a daily basis. . Bridging the visibility and liquidity gaps.

Finance 52

Finance Supply Chain Procurement Supplier 52

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Under pressure to quickly identify new sources of supply, due diligence has–at times been reduced, thereby increasing the likelihood of quality issues, unknowingly supporting forced labor, or exposing organizations to fraud. Supply chains can be both more efficient and more resilient with greater transparency into supply and demand.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Risk Management Management Supplier 52

How to Crack a Nut

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Furthermore, in any case both the technical and the governance dimensions should be considered: the focus should not be limited to assessing the technical functionalities of the solution or its capacity to perform in a series of targeted tests, but also the adequacy of the set of control and quality management mechanisms implemented by the provider.

Public Procurement 59

Public Procurement Procurement Supplier Evaluation 59

ivalua

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In this way, they can be ready to face a crisis like Covid-19 or various other potential challenges — extreme weather caused by climate change, consumer demand for sustainable and ethically produced goods, trade wars or political tensions, to name a few. .

Procurement 52

Procurement Supply Chain Supplier Manufacturing 52

ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

At the same time, organizations have never been more exposed to risk from their supply chains, from supply continuity, quality, or ESG violations. Most supply risks, whether from disruptions or ethical violations, lurk not among immediate suppliers, but in the sub-tier. Map your Sub – tier.

Supplier 52

Supplier Management Collaboration Supply Chain 52

ivalua

MARCH 3, 2020

Also, the gates to become a supplier to a large company are typically designed with bigger organizations in mind : dependency criteria, environmental charters, ethical declaration, quality labels, etc. Cash being a matter of survival for startups, this is a critical point to be addressed in a perspective of collaboration.

Procurement 72

Procurement Supplier Collaboration Innovation 72

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2023

This demonstrates that businesses increasingly recognize diversity as a global issue and these programs provide an “ethical” mechanism to connect with customers through community engagement. However, the ethical justification is no longer the totality of the value proposition as leaders now see the overall value for their business. .

Supplier 98

Supplier E-procurement Ethics Supply Chain 98

The Procurement School

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The intention is to encourage consideration of ways to simplify and open opportunities for SMEs to efficiently participate in more public procurements. Thankfully, there are methods that encourage procurement simplification and SME participation while maintaining a balance between risk, quality, and standards.

Participation 52

Participation Procurement Strategies Procurement Buyers 52

FedScoop

JANUARY 22, 2024

This risk raises critical ethical and legal issues — and also poses a challenge as federal agencies ramp up their efforts to support AI research. We invite Stanford researchers to join LAION to improve our datasets and to develop efficient filters for detecting harmful content,” a spokesperson added.

Collaboration 123

Collaboration Data Ethics Accountability 123

The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

A lack of clarity will be reflected in the quality of the solicitation document, the evaluation criteria and the bid submissions. For example, setting the pricing allocation too high indicates that the solicitation issuer is more interested in price than quality.

Procurement 52

Procurement Market Analysis Bidder Public Procurement 52

Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 20, 2024

While the latter group has indeed contributed to an orderly improvement of the ISDS processes with focus on ethics, transparency and efficiency, the former group has forced terminations of several treaties and the triggering of sunset clauses with rather little tangible outcomes.

Ethics 52

Ethics Balance Corruption Transparency 52

AWS Public Sector

JULY 31, 2024

McGraw Hill is also looking at tools to support efficient content discovery, and making product development more agile and responsive to customer needs, using AWS generative AI services. There is a key role that technology providers need to play to enable appropriate and ethical use of generative AI tools.

Education 129

Education Collaboration Utilities Quality 129