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Semiconductors market outlook 2023 and beyond

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Semiconductors market outlook 2023 and beyond Author: Rafał Dados The semiconductor supply chain today faces several major challenges. The semiconductor supply chain today faces several major challenges. The most significant of these, according to 35% of respondents in a recent survey carried by Accenture, are inflation and economic concerns. The prices of semiconductors have surged…

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Case study. C-class. Smart savings 4.0.

case study c-class industry 4.0

Case study. C-class. Smart savings 4.0. Author: Szymon Tochowicz Increasing savings and reducing complexity in standard, catalogue components porftolio (so called c-class). A case study. Industry: railway Project goal: process improvement and savings Areas: logistics, procurement, finance, production, R&D Duration: two weeks Number of people in the project: 5 Estimated project results 1 million zlotys…

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10 questions before negotiating with trade unions

Negotiating with trade unions is specific. Remember about asking 10 questions before negotiating with unions. The key is to manage conflict of interest.

10 questions before negotiating with trade unions Author: Szymon Tochowicz Negotiating with trade unions. How to prepare yourself to the process? Cooperation between the Employer and Trade Unions is a continuous process, based on appropriate relationship management, agreeing on the principles of cooperation and communication. It cannot be reduced to ad hoc events or just…

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5 great moments to increase prices to the client

Increase prices. How and when to increase price to the customer

5 great moments to increase prices to the client Author: Rafał Dados Price increases to the customer. When is the best time to negotiate the price increases? Depending on the business cycle in the economy, and on the microscale of our relationship with the client, obtaining the client’s acceptance of a raise may be difficult…

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Special actions for turbulent times. Make or buy.

Make or buy decision process

Special actions for turbulent times. Make or buy. Author: Szymon Tochowicz Technology changes, geopolitics, pandemia are reasons to review strategy and look again at what to make or buy “May you live in interesting times” This English proverb arguably is a translation of a Chinese curse. Covid-19, Russian invasion on Ukraine… Procurement job was never…

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Impact of war in Ukraine and sanctions on supply chain sustainability.

Ukrainian flag. Sanctions on Russia. War in Ukraine

Impact of war in Ukraine and sanctions on supply chain sustainability. Author: Rafał Dados How war in Ukraine and sanctions on Russia may impact short and mid term sustainability of global supply chains. Status as on 21st of March 2022. Part 1. We hosted online purchasing community meeting on 18th of March 2022. 60+ experts…

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Risk management. Knowledge based on experience.

strategiczne zarządzanie risk management

Anticipating risk and preventing it, we learn through experience (ours or others) We can divide risk in diverse ways. We have e.g. political risk, natural disasters, financial risk, technological risk, supplier dependence, legal risk …  Another look at the risk allocation is a split between known and unknown risk. In the case of known risk,…

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Disruptions in supply chains – forecasts for the automotive industry in 2022

Forecasts for the automotive industry. Disruptions in supply chains

Disruptions in supply chains – forecasts for the automotive industry in 2022 Author: Rafał Dados Automotive forecasts. Is the situation in the automotive industry going for the better? On January 14, 2022, Eveneum and Santander Bank Polska co-organized an online seminar “Disruptions in supply chains – forecasts for the automotive industry in 2022”. In the…

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Effective (… and impressive) buyer

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Effective (… and impressive) buyer Author: Szymon Tochowicz “Effective (… and impressive) buyer”. Training project for defense industry Working as a category manager for automotive company I used to deal with stakeholders across Europe. My peers, other category managers were located in France, Germany and Spain. One of them was a very LOCOMOTIVE type of…

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