Sara Lee centralizes MRO buy, gets suppliers more involved

from purchasing.com

Procurement at Sara Lee is taking a new approach to its MRO buy that’s right in line with other big changes occurring at the company.

David Cotteleer, vice president of procurement and co-pack/co-manufactured, is responsible for Sara Lee’s maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) purchasing. He and his team are centralizing the MRO buy and working toward getting suppliers they select through a strategic sourcing process more involved in the business.

Secrets to Sourcing Success

from constructiondigital.com

Unisys’ Joe Hogan says companies are increasingly looking to outsource some or all of their processes to cut costs.

The deals that do best are the ones seeking value, not just savings. The costs of expanding a business or entering new markets can obviously be daunting. In response, many companies are looking to outsourcing or multi-sourcing deals as a way to pass some of the costs onto others — whether in the U.S. or, increasingly, offshore.

But if your motivation for outsourcing is strictly to save money, you are already doomed to disappointment, according to Joe Hogan, vice president of strategic sourcing at Unisys Corp.

Sockeye Takes on Inbound, Outbound Supply Chain Management

from sdcexec.com

Allegro Suite offers end-to-end approach with modules for inventory management, demand management and supply chain event management
By Editorial Staff

Sockeye Supply Chain has rolled out its Allegro Suite with modules for inbound and outbound supply chain management, inventory management, demand management and supply chain event management.

The new Allegro Suite provides enterprises with a range of supply chain management capabilities, including features to enable collaboration and inventory visibility, according to Sockeye Supply Chain, formerly known as Sockeye Solutions.

Lawson Software’s new focus

from mmh.com

After merging with Intentia, the ERP vendor is providing supply chain management solutions to mid-size distributors on a global basis. 

“Hey, why didn’t we make the list?”

 

Every year, Modern fields a few calls like that after we publish our annual list of top 20 supply chain software vendors.

 

Most of the time, there is a simple reason a company doesn’t make our list: They don’t have the revenues. Sometimes, however, we learn something new.

 

That was the case last week, when we got a call from Julian Archer, global marketing director of distribution solutions for Lawson Software. “We’re the fourth-largest ERP company in the world with about $1 billion in sales and a strong WMS,” Archer informed us. “Based on our revenue, I think that would put us on your list.”

Deloitte Consulting and Oracle Establish Supply Chain Innovation Center

from prnewswire.com

Oracle and Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte Consulting) announced today that they have established a Supply
Chain Innovation Center powered by Oracle. The Center will concentrate on seven initiatives: Transportation Management, Oracle Lean Transformation, Advanced Supply Chain, Enterprise Asset Management, Product Life Cycle Management, Service Parts Logistics and Tax-Advantaged ERP.

Teradyne is First to Join Global Supply Chain Forum in China

from businesswire.com

Teradyne (NYSE:TER) announced today, at a ceremony held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, its founding membership in the Global Supply Chain Forum. The Forum gathers representatives from various industries with Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Antai College of Economics and Management to create a China focused community of practitioners and academics working to advance supply chain management within China.

“As China plays an increasingly important role in the global economy, we are excited to work with multi national corporations representing a variety of industries to advance supply chain management within China,” said Fangruo Chen, Forum Director and Ira Rennert Professor of Business, Columbia Business School. “Teradyne is a demonstrated leader in the Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) industry with a proven commitment to Shanghai and China. We highly value their industry insight. In fact, we have invited three of their employees to mentor students at the Antai College of Economics and Management.”