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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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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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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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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Supplier Performance Management (SPM) is increasingly seen by companies as a key competitive advantage, however we observe that it is still often practiced too partially. So what are the conditions that enable you to have a comprehensive and structured SPM approach so that your company gets the best value in a sustainable way? Until recently, in […]
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Today, Supplier Risk Management is a real strategic challenge for the companies, whatever their size. This theme is more than ever a contemporary concern being addressed in numerous seminars as well as in Procurement literature or in Procurement press and of course in business schools where Procurement is teached. The Procurement function in general and the […]
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Use Procurement Benchmarking to Drive Procurement Transformation. Performance-driven Boards make Benchmarking a priority to compare their performance to that of their peers. This approach applies to all contributors of value creation for the company and thus, inevitably, to the Procurement function: the CEO and the leadership team want to know how well their Procurement organisation is performing […]
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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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