Supplier Qualification Management (SQM) is a crucial practice for any company. However, the practice is still applied only partially and not always at the right time. What are the conditions for your company to make Supplier Qualification a genuine comprehensive and structured approach that enables to get the best value in a sustainable way? Until recently, […]

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By buying the sites of Saint Jean de Maurienne and Castelsarrazin to Rio Tinto in 2013, the German Aluminum specialist Trimet created Trimet France. After getting out of Rio Tinto group, the new entity has restructured all of its departments so that they operate in full autonomy. After about 18 months devoted primarily to ensure […]

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Evaluating the satisfaction of your Procurement internal customers, a practice that may be agile! Alma and Altaïs Conseil henceforth offer eCRM, a web-based solution to help drive satisfaction of Procurement’s internal customers. This solution is for any Procurement team, whatever their size or their organization, wishing to drive as simply, quickly and completely as possible satisfaction’s level of their […]

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This is of course primarily by its professionalism and its rigor that a Procurement organization gains its credibility vis-à-vis its internal customers. This credibility is certainly the basis for a good relationship with its internal customers. To improve and maintain the satisfaction of its internal customers to the right level, every contemporary Procurement organization regularly assesses […]

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You are planning to equip your company with an e-Sourcing solution, as do any contemporary Purchasing organizations. As some, you maybe have a powerful desire to succeed your project; or like others, perhaps you rather prefer doing everything to make it fail? If you make the second choice, then do not hesitate to carefully apply the […]

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6 Procurement Excellence trainings will be covered in 2015 by Altaïs Academy: Procurement Fundamentals Sourcing using the functional approach SRM / Supplier Risk Management Management of Procurement Talents Category Management Procurement Diagnosis Check out the detail of each training.

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IPAC Business School entrusts the development of its International Purchasing program to Altaïs Conseil. This program is for students taking the MBA Business Development course. It is subject (1) to a seminar given in different IPAC schools and taught mainly in English language and (2) to an e-Learning course remotely taken by students who are abroad. The International Purchasing program covers the […]

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Formed in 2012, following its purchase by H.I.G Capital Europe to Rio Tinto, Alteo is the world’s largest specialty alumina company, with 4 facilities in Europe of which 3 in France. In relation with many suppliers, mostly recurring, anxious to drive their performance and having to deal with the ISO 9001 requirements, Alteo has adopted […]

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Evaluating the performance of your suppliers, a Procurement practice that may be agile! Alma and Altaïs Conseil  have combined their respective expertises in IT and in procurement excellence for offering eSRM, a web-based supplier risk solution that enables to manage suppliers’ performance and to track their non-conformances. This solution is for any company, whatever their size or their organization, […]

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Establishing a structured Procurement diagnosis is a reflex which tends to spread, although it is still  not anchored within the companies. Today, the approach is more used in large companies than in small and medium enterprises. However, with the growing awareness of the Procurement function’s importance by CEOs of small and medium entreprises, the gap […]

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