Sentence examples for global procurement from inspiring English sources

Global procurement mechanisms are a major potent force in successful global health programming.

"Any attempt to procure goods and services locally promotes self-reliance," says Jason Baldaro, global procurement and facilities manager at Voluntary Services Overseas VSOO).

Its global procurement unit is in Shenzhen, China; financial processing is done in Brazil.

These can include global procurement systems priced in dollars an advantage when the euro is strong.

Notwithstanding their claims, most multinational retailers aren't organized enough to capture gains from global procurement.

IBM's global procurement office, for instance, is now located in Shenzhen, China.

The bargain pricing will continue: George's clothes are to be produced through Wal-Mart's legendary global-procurement system, and Wal-Mart, with sales of $256 billion last year, gets to negotiate very good deals with its suppliers.

But Chris Romano, who leads global produce procurement for Whole Foods, attributes the boom in berries largely to taste and availability.

That is grim news for many of the less productive garment-manufacturing locations.Yet Wal-Mart says that its global garment procurement in 2005 will be much the same as in 2004.

Seven-Eleven sees no virtue in allowing new Japanese suppliers to put in bids over the Internet.It is, however, hedging its bets by studying how international rivals such as Wal-Mart use the Internet for global product procurement.

"The reason we have a global public procurement agreement is that we believe in opening our markets up to competition and providing the best services available for the best price," Mr. Gooch said.