Sentence examples for groups of suppliers from inspiring English sources

These were groups of suppliers that engaged on a yearly basis in the study and improvement of specific production related themes of mutual interest.

The company is making a big push at reaching small business by forging links with so-called communities, such as industrial parks and groups of suppliers to selected specific industries.

About half of the PACSs in the Middle-East are supplied by local IT companies and the other half by multinationals [ 13]; differences may exist between the two groups of suppliers regarding not only the systems, but also the implementation process and training programs provided.

He liked visiting his little group of suppliers in faraway places.

A smaller group of suppliers receive daily orders and are expected to have a special team dedicated to managing IKEA's demands.

The principal beneficiary has been the European Biometrics Forum, an umbrella group of suppliers "whose overall vision is to establish the European Union as the world leader in biometrics excellence by addressing barriers to adoption and fragmentation in the marketplace".

This took the form of either expanded internal plant capabilities or the development of a group of suppliers from whom specialized components such as instruments, radios, and passenger equipment were procured.

(Autoblog) Global supply chains are nothing new in the automotive industry, but industry analysts say that last week's huge air bag recall shows the problems inherent in many manufacturers relying upon the same small group of suppliers.

But in November, Wal-Mart told the top group of suppliers -- which swelled to 132 participants as companies eager to be pacesetters asked to be included -- that the year-end deadline would apply only to a limited number of goods shipped to three distribution centers serving 150 stores in Texas.

A group of suppliers that depend on Apple for more than half of their business saw its sales slump 31 percent in February from the level in January, according to Brian White, an analyst for the brokerage firm Topeka Capital Markets, without identifying the companies in the group.

Having developed a simplified, low-cost chip to do the job, Intel also devised ways to assemble and test the components quickly, and signed up a group of suppliers to churn them out by the million, starting next year.Hewlett-Packard's concern is keeping its servers competitive: their cabling is getting bulkier, and data centres are becoming much harder to cool and increasingly energy hungry.