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Is It Time To Dump Your Vendor Management System?, Rihaz Z. Chughatta
Is It Time To Dump Your Vendor Management System?, Rihaz Z. Chughatta
Rihaz Z Chughatta
Most companies today have either implemented, or are exploring, some form of a Vendor Management System (VMS) to consolidate their external suppliers. Companies that sell a VMS point out that this system allows a Customer to get the most cost-effective solution for their needs within a certain category of suppliers; the “when suppliers compete, you win” mentality prevails. Some of the VMS even have performance metrics by which suppliers are measured and then rated in the system; thus making the case that not only does a VMS provide the most cost-effective, but also the best performing and most efficient solution …
Forest Products Laboratory: Supporting The Nation's Armed Forces With Valuable Wood Research For 90 Years, Christopher D. Risbrudt, Robert J. Ross, Julie J. Blankenburg, Charles A. Nelson
Forest Products Laboratory: Supporting The Nation's Armed Forces With Valuable Wood Research For 90 Years, Christopher D. Risbrudt, Robert J. Ross, Julie J. Blankenburg, Charles A. Nelson
Julie Blankenburg
Founded in 1910 by the U.S. Forest Service to serve as a centralized, national wood research laboratory, the USDA Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) has a long history of providing technical services to other government agencies, including those within the Department of Defense (DoD). A recent search of FPL’s library and correspondence files revealed that approximately 10,000 articles, reports, manuals, other technical publications, and communications have been generated and provided to the DoD since 1910. FPL has provided support on a broad array of technical questions—from designporting materiel to Europe and the South Pacific during World War II to assisting in …