| Global Capacity, Inc. (parent: Capital Growth Systems, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CGSY)), the world’s leading telecommunications information and logistics company, today announced that its “Strategic Sourcing” line of business delivered strong 2009 results, positioning the company for continued growth in 2010. Global Capacity leverages its Knowledge Engine, a proprietary telecom industry information and automation tool across 195 countries and 6 continents, to enable its clients to make intelligent buying decisions. The Strategic Sourcing products, “One Marketplace” and “Network Novation Services,” allow customers to design, price, build, optimize and manage both standard and customized worldwide data movement.
Read more at investor.globalcapacity.com |
SourcingBoard is based in Houston, Texas; but is a virtual company with locations throughout the Americas and advisors who have lived and managed engagements globally. It offers ITO and BPO advisory and support services. For more information, visit their website at www.SourcingBoard.com Read more at www.smartbrief.com |
| Cross-functional teams are not new: Purchasing operations at world-class companies have been leading teams of people representing different functions—human resources (HR), finance, engineering—to source direct and indirect spend categories for decades. But there are signs that cross-functional teams led by purchasing pros have come into their own and have become fully ingrained in the corporate culture. A few notable examples:Read more at www.purchasing.com |
| We work with thousands of franchise and independent electronic component distributors every day. Our expansive information gathering network includes relationships with more than 1800 electronics component manufacturers, over 15,000 distribution sources and thousands of contract manufacturers and OEMs. |
| We deliver the world’s most comprehensive electronic component data resource for part procurement professionals and for both component and design engineers. Our deep technical component information and market intelligence helps companies accurately specify and purchase electronic parts.Read more at www.partminer.com |
“We are emerging from a period of historic economic turbulence that
required many companies to change their basic business practices to
remain competitive,” said David Etzler, CEO of OutsourceWorld, LLC,
producer of the Global Sourcing Forum + Expo. “Sourcing has emerged as a
strategic differentiator, allowing companies to focus on core
competencies, enter new markets or explore partnerships and extended
relationships for certain business processes. The Global Sourcing Forum
+ Expo has captured the most current thinking, best practices and
emerging trends that show how companies are incorporating sourcing into
a successful market strategy as well as what companies are planning for
2010 and beyond. Attendees can expect to experience the most current
learning and best practices in a dynamic, business-driven environment.”
Read more at www.businesswire.com |
Paris — August 3, 2009 — Consulting firm Capgemini America is working with e-purchasing solution provider IBX Group AB to develop a new global procurement solution built on Capgemini’s BPOpen technology platform. |
This new solution is aimed at reducing the cost of procurement for companies while also accelerating and reducing the time to ROI on the deployment of e-procurement, according to the two companies. Capgemini and IBX claim that the jointly developed solution will enable their clients to incur one-tenth the implementation costs over traditional implementation approaches in their sourcing efforts. Read more at www.sdcexec.com |
In his First Thoughts column last week, SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore noted the predictions of a “new normal” in many areas of the economy and business as a result of this “great recession.” (See A “New Supply Chain Normal?”). |
Part 1 of the two-column series highlighted a few of the comments from four of the supply chain’s leading thinkers: Dr. Tom Mentzer of the University of Tennessee; Dr. Jim Tompkins, CEO of Tompkins Associates; Bill Read, head of Accenture’s global supply chain practice, and Rich Sherman, president of Gold & Domas Research and long-time supply chain pundit. Read more at www.scdigest.com |
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“Strategic Sourcing” line of business
