placing purchase orders follow-up to ensure timely delivery‚ co-coordinating with other departments. Receiving‚ inwards inspection‚ stores and accounting 2. Sourcing process In business‚ the term word sourcing refers to a number of procurement practices‚ aimed at finding‚ evaluating and engaging suppliers of goods and services: Source: To identify suppliers who are capable to supply goods or services that meet your specifications. Process : 1) establish requirement
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NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE‚ DESIGN AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT BSc (Hons) CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT YEAR 1FT/SW BSc (Hons) CIVIL ENGINEERING AND QUANTITY SURVEYING YEAR 1 FT/SW BSc (Hons) QUANTITY SURVEYING YEAR 1 FT/SW/PT BSc (Hons) QUANTITY SURVEYING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT YEAR 1 FT/SW/PT CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE CONM10002 Date: 5 June 2012 Time: 1.30 – 4.30pm INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Answer FOUR questions. All questions carry equal
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Define the Issue The Betapharm sourcing team needs to make an urgent decision whether products that are as diverse as raw materials (Malic Acid) and hotel contracts can be electronically sourced by using their already acquired ePass sourcing system. The aim is to find ways to better control costs and to remain competitive. Analysis The global hotels issue is that the cost on hotel spending is high. The annual total spending in 2003 was €70M. Although Betapharm has a global travel agent
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Improving Best Practices Jethra Penix INF336: Project Procurement Management Instructor: Daniela Green June 26‚ 2013 There are several types of spend categories that can be identified. Some of these categories include: strategic spend‚ nonstrategic spend‚ direct spend and indirect spend. Strategic spend is critical to the organization’s mission. As relates to the supply process‚ Johnson‚ Leenders‚ and Flynn‚ (2010) asks‚ How can the supply process for the strategic spend be made more efficient
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Connor Thatcher The UK is a poor exporter of goods and runs at a trade deficit‚ something that hinders its long term growth. In order to combat this‚ the UK government is undertaking a variety of new policies to increase its competitiveness and therefore improve its balance of trade. One of these policies is increasing the investment in infrastructure; the government has pledged over £100bn investment by 2020 and has given guarantees for lenders financing infrastructure projects. More than 200 projects
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opened its doors to the modern capitalist world and the economy switched from state to private administration. Construction and real estate were the first and the biggest industries that reflected this drastic change on the capital ownership‚ demographic movements and cultural developments of the society. The demand for construction mainly for housing was rapidly rising but construction was seen as a strict discipline related mostly to civil engineering and not well integrated to other fields such
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DESIGNING BUILDING There are 2 important aspects in making building: Building performance Building construction ASPECTS OF DESIGNING BUILDING The architect/designer are limited to certain physical limitation: How much land How heavy a building soil can support How long a structural span is feasible Materials performance in a given environment Construction budget Legal restriction on a building Sequence of Building Operation Soil Investigation Building set
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University Modular Framework Construction Economics [pic] Module Guide 2011/12 Module Tutor: Dr. Turker Bayrak Module Title: Construction Economics‚ LEM2030 Module Value: 1 (20 credits) at level 4 Rationale: This module aims to develop decision making skills by introducing economic principles that underpin construction industry. This module provides an insight into the ways in which the economic environment affects the construction industry. The module has been designed
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Identifying Construction Resource Factors Affecting Construction Cost: Case of Johor Aftab Hameed Memon*‚ Ismail Abdul Rahman‚ Ade Asmi Abdul Aziz‚ Kumarason V. Ravish‚ and Noor Ikmalah Mohammad Hanas Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering‚ Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia‚ 86400 Parit Raja‚ Batu Pahat‚ Johor‚ Malaysia *Corresponding e-mail: aftabm78@hotmail.com Abstract The success of any construction project highly depends on proper and effective management of construction resources
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2030‚ the UK is projected to remain the sixth largest economy in the world (at market exchange rates)‚ falling behind India but moving ahead of France. • On a regional scale‚ we expect the UK to become the second largest EU economy before 2020‚ as it overtakes France‚ and to narrow the gap with Germany by 2030. •Our updated ESCAPE Index for 2013 shows that the UK ranks fifth in the G7 in 2013‚ down from 3rd in 2000 and 2007. This reflects the relatively deep recession suffered by the UK in 2008-9
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