Jul
28
Get Suppliers to work for you
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Over at Fleetness.co.uk, Catherine Chetwynd has put together a great piece on supplier relationship and how to “get suppliers to work for you”.
While the piece is written for the car rental market, her insight applies to most business sectors – I especially like the line
suppliers need to get under the skin of a clients’ business to understand exactly how it works.
“If they can’t grasp that, they are going to be offering the wrong sort of solutions,”
How often do we talk about collaboration, but it tends to be um…..one way?
Catherine, suggests a number of key attributes that make supplier/buyer relationships work, among them she includes transparency and efficient processes. If you get the chance pop over to the site using the link above and get it a read.
Jul
27
Supply Chain Sustainability and why it matters
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There’s a nice piece over at consultancy.uk on Supply Chain Sustainability.
Calling on a recent survey there’s some insightful statistics on why sustainability matters but more importantly why firms are investing in it.
I found the following really interesting:
The research further asks respondents to indicate their motivations for developing their respective supply chain towards sustainability. The survey found that brand image improvement remained the top priority for companies, at 51% of respondents, followed by executive board decision, at 43% of respondents. Environmental regulation comes in third, as cited by 41% of respondents. Cost reduction was cited by 35% of respondents.
Which reads to me as “we want to do it because it makes us look good in the eyes of our customers”.
The better news from the article is that for many organisations it remains of strategic importance.
Click the link above to check out the article.