Strategic Sourcing Europe

Though the impact of sustainable development in the supply chain and procurement has been on HEC radar screen for already 4 years, the french HEC School of management has decided to expand their research with the support of Ariba – duly represented by an eProcurement/eSourcing pioneer Pierre Francois Thaler, currently director of managed procurement services [...]

The Ethical Sourcing Forum 2007 “Beyond Tomorrow: CSR & Supply Chain” will take place in April 19-20, 2007 in Philadelphia, USA. If you are interested in ethical procurement or supply chains, then you should register (…). The Ethical Sourcing Forum is the perfect place to “shop” for new ideas and options to implement or re-calibrate [...]

Top 10 US Corporate Citizens: GreenMountainCoffeeRoasters Inc. AdvancedMicroDevices Inc. NIKEInc. MotorolaInc. IntelCorp. InternationalBusinessMachinesCorp. AgilentTechnologies Inc. TimberlandCo. StarbucksCoffeeCo. GeneralMills Inc. The 100 Best Corporate Citizens list takes a systematic approach to assessing the social and environmental characteristics of a good corporate citizen. The list is drawn from approximately 1,100 publicly held U.S. companies in the Russell [...]

B2B News David Wei Joins Alibaba.com as President of Alibaba’s B2B Division . Former President of B&Q China brings solid operational experience and industry expertise to drive expansion of Alibaba’s business-to-business marketplaces WhyAbe has a New Look . The free auction site WhyAbe has a new look and set of functionalities. Could anyone using WhyAbe [...]

In this article published on www.outsourcing-best-practices.com, you shall learn more about the best way to measure a supplier’s ability to provide the services you are looking for: asking references (supplier’s customers experience). Below are the 7 steps which are detailed in the article I mentioned: Step 1: Determining What Makes A Good Candidate Step 2: [...]

CSR, as you probably know, stands for Corporate Social Responsability. CSR is also simply called Corporate Responsibility. CSR, in short, is all about the behaviour of private/public sector organisations and their contribution to sustainable development (health, safety and environmental) goals. According to CIPS, ” CSR should be borne in mind when dealing with suppliers, although [...]