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24th January 2022

How can you combine quality, improvement and cost reduction in procurement?

Cost reduction is a key objective for all companies. The role of the procurement department is to source the highest quality goods at the best possible price. Striving to improve product quality while also making cost...

Corporate/Procurement

13th January 2022

How to include CSR at the core of your company’s procurement policy

In view of current concerns and general awareness, it has become essential to integrate CSR into your procurement policy and, more broadly, into your overall corporate strategy. This is reflected in the incorporation of certain...

Uncategorised

11th January 2022

Distributors: how can you optimise your supplier management?

Supplier management is an extremely complex and costly task for a company’s procurement function. That’s why purchasing departments set up framework agreements with distributors that offer the widest range of services. However, this means that retailers...

Procurement

11th January 2022

What is the job of the Indirect Buyer?

Over the last few years, indirect procurement departments have played a crucial role in large companies. The field is undergoing significant changes, with companies increasingly recognising the potential savings that can be made through these often-undervalued...

Procurement

11th January 2022

Home working and ergonomics: prevention is better than cure

As a result of the lockdowns caused by the Covid-19 health crisis, home working has become essential to a greater number of people. Everything suggests that this could become a new normal. However, working efficiently from...

Home Office

11th January 2022

The Manutan brand: products with an uncompromising quality assurance process

Since 2016, the Manutan brand has been providing companies and local authorities with everyday products. As these materials, resources, and equipment are intended to be used on a daily basis by employees in their work,...

Manutan Brand

7th December 2021

Definition, tools and advantages of Lean Management

Lean Management is a method of managing and organising work to improve the performance of a company. In this article, you will find all the answers to your questions about Lean Management: The definition of Lean Management; The...

Lean/Productivity

30th November 2021

Focus on the green supply chain

The effects that the Covid-19 crisis has had on the supply chain are numerous and often very positive. As well as illustrating its strategic, even vital importance for many companies, the quest for supply chain resilience...

Productivity/Warehouse

18th November 2021

A safe and standardised workplace with 5S

A hands-on management technique aimed at improving the company’s working environment to make it safe and standardised, the 5S method involves empowering employees at all levels of the organisation. Commitment at all levels is crucial to...

Productivity

18th November 2021

Kaizen method: how to continuously improve your company’s performance

Lean Six Sigma is a method of continuous improvement that involves all actors in a process to eliminate waste, i.e. anything that reduces the efficiency and performance of a production unit or the entire company. ...

Productivity