What’s to be learned from 100,000 assessments of sustainability in global procurement? Since 2008, EcoVadis has conducted detailed assessments of companies’ adherence to environmental protection, labor and human rights, and business ethics within their global procurement organizations. A hundred thousand assessments later, some clear trends and lessons have emerged. On this episode, we speak with
Prior to the turn of the century, the standard practice in freight pre-audit and payment processes was to distill the invoice down to the minimum number of fields of data needed to do a match with the bill of lading or accrued freight payable amount. If the total costs were within tolerances (usually $50) of the
While not quite yet back to growth mode, October manufacturing output showed signs of positive momentum, according to the most recent edition of the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Manufacturing Report on Business, which was issued today. The report’s key metric, the PMI, eked out a 0.5% gain to 48.3 8 (a reading of 50