CB RICHARD ELLIS SERVICES INC., Los Angeles, a commercial property broker, and two rivals -- Jones Lang LaSalle Inc., Chicago, and Trammell Crow Co., Dallas -- agreed to invest $30 million in SiteStuff.com Inc., Austin, Tex., to create an Internet-based procurement business for the real estate industry.
By signing up as many large companies as it can, Ariba is on target to becoming a de facto industry standard for the procurement business.
During the last few years, a large number of new procurement business models has been developed, mostly concerning companies operating in the private sector.
JALUX Inc., established in 1962, is the airline's procurement business which handles various work for the company, including the JAL SELECTION merchandise and in-flight meals and refreshments; supplies for Blue Sky and JAL-DFS shops; aircraft fuel components, cabin services and in-flight duty-free.
This could be preamble to Concurs bold new move into the e-procurement business.
September was a good month for Mountain View, Calif.-based Ariba arba, a leader in e-procurement business.
Examples from a range of organisations was used to show how sustainable procurement provides business resilience through better control, awareness and traceability throughout the value chain.
Similarly, if procurement and business initiatives are to succeed, the government must set market signals in all that it does and not just from the departments who are directly tasked with green policy making.
The majority of carbon-management plans do not yet include targets for reducing their "Scope 3" emissions – those from procurement activities, business travel, daily commuting, international student travel and end-of-term travel, even though Hefce requires all English institutions to start reporting and setting targets for these by next year.
- Research and development, - Product planning and design, - Procurement, - Business operations, - Distribution, and - Take-back and recycling.
