Sustainable Supplier Relationships are Key to Business Success

By taiga | September 10, 2012

Taiga Company blog by Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company

“Procurement is uniquely positioned to increase quality, delivery, and partnerships between critical suppliers and internal business partners. Leveraging a fortified relationship to manage supplier performance is a powerful way for procurement organizations to create value for the enterprise beyond just cost reductions”. –Procurement Strategy Council

With the shift in consumer preferences over the past few years, companies have been aggressive to respond to the growing ‘sustainability’ value opportunity. As a component of this understanding, lifecycle questions remain a hurdle in many industries. Thus, many companies today are looking up the value chain and asking more probing questions: Click here to continue reading, Sustainable Supplier Relationships are Key to Business Success

Home to one third of the earth’s trees, the Taiga is the largest land-based biosphere and encircles the globe. Its immense oxygen production literally changes the atmosphere and refreshes the planet. It is this continuous renewal that has shaped Taiga Company’s vision to drive similar change in the business world. Taiga Company seeks to be the “oxygen for your business”.

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