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Relating sourcing to Global Trends: "Sourcing" is made up of two elements, both of which contribute to the success or failure, namely sourcing approaches, and supply approaches. This article discusses that sourcing global trends needs understood to reducing the uncertainty and risk in sourcing approaches and strategy. It also lists the fundamental shifts that must...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, sourcing, strategy; White papers
Integrating sourcing Within Your Business Strategy: In recent years, sourcing and supply management has emerged as one of the greatest opportunity areas for retail business as well as for suppliers to leading retailers. This set of activities holds the key to improving service, product offer and overall profitability, and yet also provides some of the most...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, sourcing, business strategy, cost management, negotiation, supplier; White papers
Global sourcing in the Auto Industry: The article outlines that Carmakers in North America, Europe, and Japan - lured by savings that could cut their auto parts bills by 25 percent and reassured by quality improvements - are shedding their skepticism about parts made in unfamiliar locales such as China and India. Sourcing car parts, however,...; Tags: McKinsey & Co., sourcing, supplier; White papers
Strategic sourcing Through Reverse Auctions: A buyer always looks for the best deal possible when he is purchasing products and services, has suppliers competing for business; and discover the optimum terms the market is willing to offer. This article reveals that thanks to reverse auctions, the purchasing organization can control costs, gain efficiencies and maximize...; Tags: Clarity Consulting, supplier; White papers
Diversified Industrial Goods Manufacturer: Manufacturer Leverages Buying Power to Gain Savings: A Fortune 200 company that designs and manufactures engineering products and systems for customers around the world launched a strategic sourcing initiative to improve its internal operations and bottom line. The company brought in UPS Consulting to help manage complex segments of the project. The result outlined a significant reduction...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Channel management, Manufacturing, United Parcel Service of America Inc., supplier relationship, manufacturer, sourcing, supplier; Case studies

The Art of Management in Outsourcing: The sourcing business is to some extent a very people-intense business. People overlook HR and they look at that as a downstream process. Many outsourcing contracts are defined at a very high level, for instance a CIO level, VP level, sometimes CEO level. Outsourcing is not a new concept. Internal...; Tags: outsourcing, sourcing, Human Resources; White papers
global strategic sourcing: Article discusses a case of Bristol-Myers that focus on how the organization plans to deliver its billion in cost savings. Bristol-Myers Squibb has been sourcing strategically since 1996. Between 1996 and 2002, the company's Glob; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Reed Elsevier Inc., sourcing, cost savings; White papers
Pharmaceutical sourcing Group Americas: Spring House, Pennsylvania: Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, was formed by the 1993 merger of Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation and McNeil Pharmaceutical. Following the tremendous success of the solar power installation at Neutrogena headquarters in Los Angeles, California, Johnson & Johnson continues to heed the challenge of...; Tags: PowerLight Corp., pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson, solar energy, merger; Case studies
2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Johnson Space Center / MfgQuote Inc.: For more than 40 years, Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, has been home to the U.S. human space flight program from the final Mercury flight to today's space shuttle and International Space Station missions. In the past, the process to find three suppliers who could do the work...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Cygnus Business Media, sourcing, demand chain, supplier, tool; White papers
Product Review: Outsourcing Management Made Easier With Enlighta: Enlighta Govern from Enlighta belongs to a fairly new breed of tool that can help to automate the mind-numbing aspects of one's outsourcing strategy. Overall, the goal is to create a single point of entry into all aspects of sourcing management, to provide a consistent process and practice across the...; Tags: outsourcing, sourcing, tool; White papers
2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Fortune 150 Conglomerate / Silver Oak Solutions: Silver Oak provided the first-ever corporate-wide spending analysis for this global customer across 20-plus domestic and five European business units. Silver Oak completed strategic sourcing for three complex, difficult categories for a major business group at the company, identifying 21 percent in annual savings. Using Silver Oak's sourcing process (involving...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Cygnus Business Media, sourcing, demand chain, analysis; Case studies
Strategic sourcing Saves $4 Million for Specialty Chemical Company: The $300 million division of a specialty chemical company was struggling through the back end of an economic downturn. Annual sales had slipped 11%, raw material costs were up 16%, and the company found it difficult to raise prices on its products. PRTM was asked to design and implement a...; Tags: Engineering, PRTM, chemical company, sourcing; Case studies
Reducing New Product Introduction (NPI) Time Using a Packaged Software Solution: In several industries, the total time taken to introduce a new product into the market can be the key difference between a blockbuster and a mediocre performing new product. New Product Introduction involves several collaborative processes including product design, product quality planning, identifying and qualifying vendors and plants for sourcing...; Tags: Strategy, MetricStream Inc., product design, sourcing, Software Solution, industry, software; White papers
Supply Base Localization: A Different Look at Low-Cost Country sourcing: The trend to move manufacturing to low-cost regions is becoming pervasive. Companies of all sizes in nearly every sector of business in the United States and Europe are developing and implementing strategies not just to source from low-cost regions but also to actually produce goods in those countries. The reason...; Tags: Cygnus Business Media, manufacturing, cost reduction, competitive advantage, strategy; White papers
2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Connell Purchasing Services / EC sourcing Group: Connell Purchasing Services (CPS), a strategic purchasing firm, was founded in 1994 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Connell Company. CPS was interested in automating its already sophisticated sourcing process to reduce cycle time, increase throughput without increasing headcount and maximizing the competition for their requirements. After almost...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Cygnus Business Media, sourcing, e-Sourcing, demand chain, document management, project management; Case studies
2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Alcoa/Ariba: Alcoa is widely known as the world's largest producer of aluminum and aluminum products, with 350 operating locations in 41 countries, bringing revenue of $23.5 billion a year. However, staying at the head of the pack is not easy. Alcoa's sourcing and procurement team was challenged to decrease the overall...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Cygnus Business Media, Alcoa Inc., sourcing, Ariba Inc., procurement, aluminum, demand chain; Case studies
Strategic sourcing: From Periphery to the Core: The Idea in Brief Almost nothing a company does can't be outsourced anymore--even functions as critical as engineering, marketing, and manufacturing. Yet only 6% of the companies that outsource are satisfied with the practice. Why?...; Tags: Mark Gottfredson, Rudy Puryear, Stephen Phillips, 7-Eleven Inc., outsource, commonality, supplier, outsourcing, logistics, transaction processing, IT administration, sourcing, positioning, strategy, transportation, industry, product development, food, finance, manufacturi; Articles 2008-01-04
Import sourcing Specialist: The Import Sourcing Specialist job description template includes the following job summary: To select quality suppliers in foreign countries and to negotiate pricing, delivery frameworks, and payment schedules in line with the company's purchasing policies. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, payment, pricing strategy; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Outsourcing Models : Aligning sourcing Strategy To Business Objectives: This paper serves as an introduction to the most common outsourcing models, namely Staff Augmentation, Out-Tasking, Project Based Outsourcing and Managed Services. The term ?Offshore outsourcing? brings to mind images of work flowing from large corporations to outsourcing service providers halfway across the globe. Perhaps the rapidly growing Indian IT...; Tags: Sourcing, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; White papers 2007-06-01
Globalization Of Product Development: High-tech companies achieve success not only when they bring their products to market quickly - but also when they create and develop the right products at the right time, that are well aligned with customer needs. In Part one of this paper, author discussed the reasons why many leading companies...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Product marketing, Infosys Technologies Ltd., sourcing, New Product Development, globalization, product development, R&D, wall; White papers 2007-03-27