Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

2degrees, in conjunction with Procurement Leaders, has published its Supplier Collaboration White Paper which sets out the vital case for adopting a Fully Linked collaborative approach to supply chain management in order to cut costs, risks, drive innovation and secure supply.

This paper profiles the pioneering approaches and platforms that can open up collaboration with large numbers of suppliers to build competitive advantage and reduce environmental impacts. Executives from GSK and Asda with first-hand experience of the transformational effect it can have on their business, speak candidly about their programs.

“…while the concept clearly worked at Asda, and for other businesses besides, would it work for GSK? And for its supply base?”

Inside:

Insights, input and advice from GSK, ASDA, Cranfield University, Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Institute of Grocery Distribution on the new approaches to building large scale sustainable collaboration and transparency across the supply base.

New research on understanding trust and supplier dynamics, and how to be the customer of choice.

How you can use the critical skill of facilitation to create and reward collaborative behaviours whilst ensuring compliance with competition law.

Examples of online community programs orchestrating a ‘richness of opportunity’ for you ‘that otherwise wouldn’t exist’.

Find out how with hundreds of suppliers collaborating, you could support many millions of dollars of additional cost reductions that would not be achieved otherwise.