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 made themselves more vulnerable to variance, while...
As one of HP’s supply chain auditors, I always look for news and best practices relating to responsible supply chain management and procurement. This summer HEC Paris and EcoVadis published an interesting study: The Sustainable Procurement Benchmark report . The study is based on a questionnaire...
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 and received a number of awards. My "google...