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Volkswagen Group Selects Ivalua to Digitize its Indirect Procurement Processes

ivalua

Ivalua platform selected to improve efficiency, transparency, and the employee purchasing experience. A top-10 Forbes 500 company, the Volkswagen Group is one of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based Spend Management software. About Ivalua.

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Supply Chain Planning Solutions are Not Just for the Big Boys

Logistics Viewpoints

Myers Industries Implements John Galt Solutions. This manufacturer produces plastic reusable material handling containers and plastic fuel tanks. They also are also one of the largest distributor in the US of tools, equipment and supplies for the tire and wheel service industry.

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ANCA Streamlines Procurement with the QAD Supplier Portal

QAD

ANCA builds CNC tool grinding machines. It’s a niche industry, but also one of the cornerstones of discrete parts manufacturing. These machines produce the cutting tools other machine tools use to cut metal. They’re complex machines assembled from thousands of parts, many purchased from highly specialized manufacturers.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. Likewise, data scientists are long on the understanding of software approaches but short on understanding the business.

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US Food Manufacturing Success: Outsourcing MRO Supply Chain

Synovos

They were a new company that had taken over an existing manufacturing plant and lacked the infrastructure needed to keep the facilities in good working order, whether that was buyers to order parts or an accounts team to manage the purchasing process. It’s a juggling act between the finance and manufacturing side of the business.”

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Putting Procurement Front and Center of Your Supply Chain

Oracle SCM

Procurement professionals are now playing an increasingly strategic role within their organizations. Procurement of raw materials and components that go into the manufacturing process is essential to ensure final product quality and strong financial performance. The new procurement professional needs a broad set of skills.

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Sustainable procurement: Everything You Need to Know

Precoro

March 21 was the second annual iteration of World Sustainable Procurement Day , an online event organized by the Sustainable Procurement Pledge team, SPP Chapters, SPP Champions, and partners to raise awareness about the importance of ethical procurement and to share the best sustainability practices with organizations worldwide.