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Spend Matters: Friday Rant: The Costs of Home Foreclosure
www.spendmatters.com | Feb 10, 2012
Spend Matters: Friday Rant: The Costs of Home Foreclosure

VMI Price Drop
www.mhia.org | Feb 10, 2012
PathGuide® Technologies (pathguide.com), a leading provider of advanced warehouse management systems (WMS) for industrial and retail distributors, announced a significant price reduction for its vendor managed inventory (VMI) solution.With ...

Grainger Highlights Georgia-pacific Professional Again For Environmental And Supplier Excellence |
www.prlog.org | Feb 9, 2012
Grainger Highlights Georgia-pacific Professional Again For Environmental And Supplier Excellence. For the second year in a row, Grainger presented Georgia-Pacific Professional with two Partners in Performance Awards at Grainger’s annual supplier conference held recently in Rosemont, Ill. -

Sourcing Innovation: Can Cost Management On Its Own Be Strategic?
blog.sourcinginnovation.com | Feb 7, 2012
A recent issue of eSide Supply Management published a piece on Strategic Cost Management and the Supply Base that, while full of good advice, might be misleading to an up-and-coming Supply Management practitioner who needs to be set on the right road early on. However, before I can explain, let's

Welcome to SupplyChainBrain: Many Companies That Have Good Carbon-Reduction Plans Still Work with
www.supplychainbrain.com | Feb 6, 2012
SupplyChainBrain is the most widely used online resource for supply chain management information, over 25 million visitors!

The Proper Way to Conduct RFPs: Make Contacts, Make Time : IMT Industry Market Trends
news.thomasnet.com | Feb 2, 2012
<p>Getting to know your suppliers is one of the most important parts of the request for proposal (RFP) process, as William Dorn and Joe Payne explain in an excerpt from their book <i>Managing Indirect Spend</i> (Wiley, 2011).</p>

Praxair Announces Promotions of Menezes, Telez --
www.praxair.com | Jan 25, 2012
DANBURY CT, January 25, 2012 -- Steve Angel, chairman and chief executive officer of Praxair (NYSE: PX), has announced that Eduardo Menezes has been promoted to executive vice president and will continue to lead the U.S. Industrial Gases...

HD Supply Partners with Agile Sourcing
electricalmarketing.com | Jan 20, 2012
Utility products distributor HD Supply Utilities, Atlanta, announced an equity investment in utility supply integrator Agile Sourcing Partners, Inc., Corona, Calif.

Buyers Predict Higher Travel Budgets, Prices ... But Also Bigger Discounts, Tight Spend Management
blog.starcite.com | Nov 11, 2011
We've all heard what the industry analysts and experts predict for < a href= " http://blog.starcite.com/blog/strategic-meetings-management-2/in-amex-forecast-spotlight-on-meetings-travel " > business travel pricing trends in 2012 < /a > , now it's time to hear what actual buyers are saying. < br /

Ford Motor Company was named Corporation of the…
www.manufacturing.net | Oct 8, 2011
Ford Motor Company was named Corporation of the Year by the Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council (MMSDC) this week. This is the second year in a row Ford has received the award, which recognizes an automaker's commitment to developing and growing a diverse supply base.