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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

The concept of ethical sourcing has risen in popularity during the past four years.” . Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, and the UK have all passed similar due diligence, human rights, and anti-slavery legislation. found that consumers would stop purchasing brands with ethics issues. Consumer Buying Trends.

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Upturn in Global Manufacturing in June- Cautionary Signs Prevail

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides readers and clients with a further installment in our global supply chain assessment series in providing highlights on reported June and Q2- 2024 global PMI activity levels. Germany, Austria and Poland were reported as the three lowest PMI activity levels. average reported for Q1-2024.

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10th Pan-European Conference in the P2P Series

Supply Chain Movement

Venue: Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Global P2P departments are still on the journey towards true touchless end-to-end purchase-to-pay function. Get experience on Lean and Six Sigma in indirect procurement. P2P Process Owners Strategy Workshop. Date 16-18 November 2016. Organiser: marcus evans Conferences.

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July 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices Indicating Declining Momentum

Supply Chain Matters

Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. On the slightly positive side, the July report indicated that rates of input cost and output charge inflation have both eased to 17-month lows. The top three regions exhibiting PMI growth were that of India, Australia and the Netherlands.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report. On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases.

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Job opening: International Category Manager – Logistics at Rockwool

Supply Chain Movement

Can you deliver added value and cost savings from a supply chain, optimise and develop procurement processes, manage a wide range of suppliers internationally and identify new supply sources? Secure profitable purchase processes. You will be joining ROCKWOOL’s Global Sourcing & Procurement organisation.

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Why Data Sharing is Limited in a Competitive Environment

Supply Chain Trend

The best application of CPFR I’ve encountered was in 2005, when working for a meat manufacturer that received point-of-sale (POS) data four times a day (10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm) from over 600 stores from the largest retailer in the Netherlands. POS data from the afternoon sales was used to adapt the production schedule for the next day.