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CPO Spotlight: Victoria Cope

Procurement Heads

As an organisation, we understand the importance of sustainable development in ensuring we can continue to deliver impactful scientific outcomes, value for money and positive impact in the wider community. You talked about the Social Act of 2012 and how you are integrating supplier diversity into end-to-end Procurement day-to-day.

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Southampton-based recruiters celebrate 10th anniversary

Procurement Heads

Founded in 2012, the business now has offices in Winchester and Southampton, with plans to open a London branch later this year. “It Procurement and supply chain’s profiles have probably never been higher, with the pandemic, Brexit and geopolitical situations shining a light on the importance of the functions.”.

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Seeking Evidence of Procurement’s Impact and Momentum

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Most interesting of all is what we learn about the importance of those metrics in the face of overly rosy or overly critical subjective self-assessments. Spend under management has been effectively flat since 2012, with procurement organizations averaging 63.2% savings realized in 2018. savings realized in 2018. in 2018 (a modest 8.7%

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Importing From China! The Essential Guide! (Video)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Since 2012, China has been the world’s number one trading country, and it shows no signs of moving from this spot anytime soon. Why Import your Products from China? Why Import your Products from China? Countless businesses have generated enormous profits off the back of the sale of imported Chinese goods. So, why is this?

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How is outsourcing impacting IT investments in the pharma supply chain?

The Network Effect

Supply-chain visibility is an important if not essential enabler for the more advanced outsourcing approaches; therefore, IT investments and outsourcing must be considered simultaneously.

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The importance of Forests on human health & wellbeing

Value Match

This day was established by the United Nations in 2012 and has since been observed by countries around the world. A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations “ Forests for human health and wellbeing ” details the important benefits forests provide. So how can Procurement help?

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Can brands save profits without squeezing suppliers?

Procurement Leaders

Costas founded HICX in 2012 to address the challenges of bad supplier data in the enterprise. Costas strongly believes in the importance of data and supplier-centricity as a foundation for digital transformation in business, and is a regular speaker and contributor on this topic.

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