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The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics

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The post The Cold, Hard Facts About Cold Chain Logistics appeared first on Art of Procurement. The term “cold chain” was first used in 1908 to describe meat industry storage and transportation in and out of.

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Strategic sourcing enters a new age. Are you keeping up? (Part 2)

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This week’s signs deal with supplier relationships. You Have Imbedded a Cost Management Mindset into Every Supplier Relationship. Instead, today’s sourcing pros must facilitate cost improvements through a more sophisticated and complete understanding of cost management strategies involving: Materials. alternatives.

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How Procurement Can Add Value To Supplier Master Data Management

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Jarrod McAdoo, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Ivalua. Master supplier data doesn’t just matter to Procurement. Accurate supplier data is the fuel that drives critical business processes that impact the bottom line. Supplier data improvements can reduce these costs and minimize the opportunity for error. Operations.

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QATAR TRADE SUMMIT 2019 – 25 – 27 November 2019

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The high level summit is conceptualized to address the long term and broad spectrum impact of Logistics and Supply Chain in the nation economic progress. Supplier Management is a growing challenge for Supply Chains.

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Are you ready to be the manufacturer of the future?

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Such change is pushing manufacturers (and their solution providers) to reinvent nearly every aspect of their businesses from demand sensing to the plant floor, logistics, sourcing, supplier management, and financial management. Suppliers are a tremendous source for both product innovation and cost reduction initiatives.

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From a recent practitioner: More of what’s ahead for federal acquisition in 2024

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However, I can say that there’s incredible plans underway to continue to deliver more value to our citizens, to our customers, to create a much more equitable, inviting, successful marketplace for suppliers and to continue to make it easy for people who do business with the government. We asked a question of ourselves almost every day.

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Thank You for a Successful Spring Training Conference!

The Coalition for Government Procurement

Day One Speakers Keynote Speakers: Christine Harada , Senior Advisor, OFPP, OMB Moshe Schwartz , President, Etherton and Associates Panelists: Bonnie Evangelista , Acting Deputy Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer for Acquisitions, DoD Polly Hall , Senior Advisor to the Chief Procurement Officer, DHS Udaya Patnaik , Chief Innovation (..)