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		<title><![CDATA[Value Based Strategic Sourcing And IT Systems]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The software industry has invested heavily in the past ten years on developing Internet based software to support commodity procurement. Despite its critical impact on business performance there has been a much smaller emphasis on new tools and processes to support high value, high risk procurement transactions, although the area...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who's got strategic sourcing on the brain?(Buylines: strategies sourcing news for supply chain & purchasing professionals)(Allied Motion Technologies)(DuPont)(Brief Article)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3381/is_200406/ai_n8118108]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DuPont has set a goal to reduce fixed costs by $700 million in  2005, with $375 million of that coming by reducing external spending in  areas such as contract services, supplies procurement,  telecommunications and information technology expenses. Du    DuPont has set a goal to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Strategic Sourcing of IT Infrastructure Services to Enable Business Agility: A Conceptual Framework]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well-planned Information Technology IT Infrastructure services are critical for companies pursuing strategic agility. The traditional bricks-and-mortar organisation and the virtual organisation cannot be separated as easily as they have in the past. Companies are organising themselves both physically and virtually, from their Customers to their Supply Chains. In the process...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IT and purchasing: Celestica's new negotiating tool. (Strategic Sourcing).]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3381/is_200210/ai_n8119344]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The key to buying IT goods and services in an extremely  cost-competitive environment: Involve purchasing. Early. This is  especially true for electronics manufacturing services providers EMS  like Celestica. There, purchasing works dosely with the     The key to buying IT goods and services in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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