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Procurement Leaders’ category research has found that most large paper packaging manufacturers operate their own paper production, own their own pulp mills or even manage their own forests. One of the most famous examples is probably internation…

More than half (56%) of the 250 senior B2B and B2C brand marketers surveyed for the DMA Email Marketing Council’s 2013 National Client Email Report, stated that they are “confident that expenditure on email marketing will increase this year”. Th…

MobileIron’s 2013 Mobile Enterprise Report, which polled 477 IT executives worldwide, found that 57% thought their mobile data roaming costs would rise in 2013, with 8% saying they’ll rise more than 25%.

The top two sources of frustration…

The move has created two companies – Air India Air Transport Services and Air India Engineering Services – which will trade as discrete profit centres.

The deal paves the way for Air India Engineering Services Limited (AIESL) to offer engineering mai…

Speaking to Bloomberg, Kenichi Noda, executive managing officer at Toyota Boshoku, an affiliate of Toyota that makes interior parts and bumpers, said that the carmaker had won a number of price reductions over the past few years due to the strengtheni…

Europe, not the US, will be targeted by the reductions, a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) spokesperson told WRAL News.

“We are looking at opportunities to develop new technology in manufacturing and R&D which we believe will simplify supply chain processes…

Meanwhile, only a third of those CPO-level executives surveyed forecast an increase by that same measure.

It is likely that these responses refer to their own organisation’s supply chains and their activities compared to the prevailing environm…

The company claimed that the move marks one of the world’s largest deployments of zero-emission commercial trucks. The vehicles will be put into services throughout the state – including San Bernardino, Ceres, Fresno, Bakersfield and Sacramento,…

According to Carter Lusher, chief IT analyst at Ovum, while the moves makes strategic sense for Dell, customers must address any potential disruption it may cause to their procurement plans: “Ovum recommends that CIOs need to asset the risk to t…

The amount of aluminium used in cars is growing by some 5% every year, according to Barclay’s analyst Gayle Berry who was speaking to Bloomberg, and is expected to increase further as consumer’s looks for more fuel efficient cars.

In a co…