- 06
- OCT
Companies at risk if country intelligence falls short
Author: Michelle Perkins - Categories: Country Risk, Global Sourcing, Procurement Intelligence
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You only have to look at the recent disasters in the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam – three of Asia's fastest growing economies – to appreciate the risks that global sourcing can bring. At the tail end of last month a series of ferocious monsoons swept across the Pacific Ocean and into the South China Sea, causing almost unprecedented flooding. Just days later, a huge earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a country still rebuilding after the 2004 Asian tsunami. more
- 20
- SEP
Handle with care – China sourcing comes with health warning
Author: Sofia Santarelli - Categories: Country Risk, Global Sourcing
If a year’s a long time in politics then 12 months must seem like a lifetime in procurement. Last September the financial world was shaken to its very core when Lehman Brothers became the biggest, and most high profile casualty, of the global economic crisis. Small wonder then, that supplier risk was priority number one for CPOs across the world with distressed supply chains posing the greatest threat to procurement, and the wider business world, in a generation. more