This social networking capability extends existing supplier management solutions with many applications critical to supplier management success, including supplier risk, compliance and performance management.

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Outsourcing PC manufacturing allows HP to focus on strategic core competencies, including supply chain design, new product and services development, supplier management and customer relationship management.

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Progressive organizations are evaluating their procurement, sourcing and supplier management from a new perspective to create additional value and explore resulting business sustainability risk that will continue well into 2011.

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They make sure that all resources--people, money, management attention, supplier enhancements--serve that end.

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When that is hard, because a parts supplier is highly specialised, say, good management is likely to be more effective than state aid.

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It is believed that Button's management have taken advantage of clauses in engine supplier Honda's new contract with BAR.

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"To be a Wal-Mart supplier is a badge of honor, " says Robert Lamb, a management professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

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Brawn spent the winter looking for a buyer and engineered an 11th-hour management buy-out, aided by financial help from Honda and support from engine supplier Mercedes-Benz, to secure his outfit's future.

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Another three companies will list today: Shandong Longquan Pipeline Engineering, a pipe manufacturer, AoKang Shoes, a footwear supplier whose boss Wang Zhentao is a former China Rich List member, and Dongjiang Environmental Company, a waste management company traded in Hong Kong that has arranged a secondary listing in Shenzhen.

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