EEOC v. Federal Express (2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 1260 [4th Cir.]) Facts: FedEx appealed a case awarding a disabled employee‚ Ronald Lockhart‚ with compensatory and punitive damages. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) the employer must be acting with malice for punitive damages to be awarded; in addition‚ there was evidence that questioned if punitive damages were warranted. FedEx claimed that Lockhart’s supervisors failed to accommodate him at work‚ not FedEx‚ and they did engage in a
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DIFFERENT SOURCING RELATIONSHIPS Direct sourcing model The adidas Group holds direct contractual relationships with its core suppliers who are centrally supervised by Global Operations. Global Operations is a Group function which manages product development‚ commercialisation‚ distribution and supervision of the manufacture of apparel‚ footwear and accessories for the adidas‚ Reebok and TaylorMade-adidas Golf segments. These suppliers produce the predominant share of the total sourcing volume of
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1.1 GLOBAL SOURCING 1.1.1 Definition Global sourcing is defined as a centralized procurement strategy of a international consortium‚ whereby a central buying organization strives to create economies of scale through corporate wide standardization and benchmarking. A definition focused on this aspect of global sourcing is: "proactively integrating and coordinating common items and materials‚ processes‚ designs‚ technologies‚ and suppliers across worldwide purchasing‚ engineering‚ and operating
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Term Paper Worldwide Sourcing Many companies in today’s business world are exploring new ways to surpass their competitors. Over the past twenty years‚ there has been a significant increase in worldwide sourcing. According to Tim Minahan from SearchCIO‚ global sourcing is the process of identifying‚ evaluating‚ negotiating and configuring supply across multiple geographies to reduce costs‚ maximize performance and mitigate risks (Minahan‚ 2003). So why is going international so popular among
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single source procurement. The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning issued guidelines on 17th September‚ 2004 to explain the process for application of Single Sourcing. However‚ most applications for single source procurement submitted to the Board fail to satisfy the basic requirements for approval. This sometimes results in delays during the approval process. In order to ensure that single source requests satisfy the key provisions of the Public Procurement Act‚ 2003 (Act 663)‚ the Board
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Strategic Sourcing 2.0 by John Brennan Innovative Analytics & Training LLC | www.innovative‐analytics.com Executive Summary. Global sourcing executives face more challenges than ever‚ and the global sourcing environment will only grow more complex. The firms that survive the next century will do so because they make key investments in building the next generation of strategic sourcing capabilities. Strategic Sourcing 2.0 is about automating networks and analysis that is more rigorous
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‘Defining sourcing strategy for ‘operations’’ SOURCING STRATEGY ‘Factors that play a role in defining the sourcing strategy from an operations management view’ Master thesis Business Administration‚ Change Management University of Groningen Faculty of Management and Organization Master Change Management In association with G.M. Brink Student number: 1503952 Rhonestraat 45 8226 MJ Lelystad 06-52652816; 0320-844663 gbrink@chello.nl; G.M.Brink@student.rug.nl Internal supevisor:
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Sourcing By Helen Clegg and Susan Montgomery Sourcing information products is a complex exercise involving many variables. In today’s uncertain business climate‚ information budgets are sensitive to scrutiny and constantly under threat. In many cases‚ information professionals are faced with trying to get more value from suppliers with a flat or reduced budget or contending with a “now we have it‚ now we don’t” scenario. What’s more‚ there is a lot of rival content available from the Internet
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What is global sourcing and why is it so important? Because companies sourcing from both inside and outside their country borders are better able to compete. The global reality As international demand grows for more and better products and services‚ competition becomes more intense. Firms must keep up with rapidly changing technology while also lowering their costs‚ increasing quality‚ and improving customer service at all stages of the value chain. This is the reality of international trade
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Global sourcing One of the major supply chain developments of recent years has been the expansion in the proportion of products and (occasionally) services which businesses are willing to source from outside their home country; this is called global sourcing. It is the process of identifying‚ evaluating‚ negotiating and configuring supply across multiple geographies. Traditionally‚ even companies that exported their goods and services all over the world still sourced the majority of their supplies
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