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“100 Million Euro savings reported”

The McKinsey Quarterly reported how one European manufacturer achieved € 100 million in saving by creating cross functional teams organized around commodities.

Heineken Egypt ‘Towards Strategic Purchasing‘ successfully started

Last week, Purspective trainer Jan Valkhof traveled to the land of pyramids and delivered the first classroom module for the Heineken purchasing staff of Egypt and surrounding countries. First module focused on purchasing...

Robert Monczka, PH.D., C.P.M., recognized for 25 years of contributions...

Leader in education, research receives J. Shipman Gold Medal Award.

(TEMPE, Ariz.) May 6, 2008 — For more than 25 years, Robert Monczka, Ph.D., C.P.M., has researched, taught and consulted about strategic purchasing/sourcing and...

Essent team proud on Cost Analysis certificates

Beginning of this year Essent and Purspective organized an intensive workshop on Cost Analysis as part of the Purchasing Excellence 2 program. Purspective’s lead trainer in Cost Management, Jan Valkhof, supported the team on...

Purspective facilitates strategy meeting for Total Facilities Management

“Creating one strategy for Total Facilities Management (TFM)” – this was the objective of a commodity strategy workshop in January. A global industrial organization requested this workshop to reach an internal agreement on a way...