Supply Chain Management Blog : Procurement

The Tangibles and Intangibles of Supply Chain Collaboration

christianverstraete — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:38:00 GMT

The latest recession has gotten a profound impact on many supply chains and forced rethinking strategies . In a quest to reducing costs, many have diminished safety buffers, established lean thinking, and redesigned their flows. In that process they have...(read more)

HP Supply Chain: Buy/Sell and Manufacturing Outsourcing

christianverstraete — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:29:00 GMT

Over the last months, I have shared with you a number of concepts HP has implemented in its Supply Chains to reduce costs, improve responsiveness and mitigate risks. In this blog, I'd like to share another one, called buy/sell, that focuses mainly...(read more)

HP Supply Chain - Dynamic Replenishment

christianverstraete — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:01:00 GMT

It's been a while since I last spoke about the HP Supply Chain and what we put in place to manage uncertainty and variance in the current economic conditions. Most of the best practices I have been discussing have actually been in place for a number...(read more)

HP Supply Chain - Procurement Risk Management

christianverstraete — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:33:00 GMT

I had promised last year to focus some time on describing best practices in the HP Supply Chain and how they helped making the company more responsive. Today I want to focus on one, called Procurement Risk Management (PRM) that has been widely publicized...(read more)