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Category Archives: Global Sourcing
Boeing announces 18 B $ of orders at Farnborough , England Airshow and US Engine suppliers announce new business
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“Go West (now overseas)” or at least source iPhone parts globally for a thriving business !
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Will the Volvo acquisition make Chinese Geely cars seem safer?
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Global B2B implications of Obama Nobel Prize, Free Global Telephony and Twitter
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Five Differences between B2B marketing and supply chain managers
Here are five differences between B2B marketing and sales managers and supply chain managers as a sort of continuation of my earlier post: Marketing managers being outward facing are constantly looking for opportunities sometimes without regard to what their organization can really do. Supply Chain managers first look inside before looking outside at suppliers –Continue reading “Five Differences between B2B marketing and supply chain managers”
Input-process-output and the supply-firm-marketing chain
The input-process-output ( ICT model) is a way of looking at the firm’s value chain. Supply managers handle the input coming in and the marketing folks handle the output coming out. Like: Â Â global suppliers ->supply chain->[firm-]->marketing->global customers Supply and Marketing folks are people who sit at either end of the firm and look atContinue reading “Input-process-output and the supply-firm-marketing chain”
The Stimulus and Procurement Reform
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Managing outsourcing – in tough times upcoming ISM Workshop
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The G-20 meeting and global supply chains
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