Sentence examples for so procurement from inspiring English sources

In Sara Lee's purchasing pit, called the "nerve center," Mr. Brown encourages the team of 20 or so procurement specialists to engage in high-level discussions about energy prices, weather and agricultural commodity trends (like the ethanol boom) in charting purchasing strategies.

When he became president, George Bush promised to increase defence spending, and he has done so: the procurement budget is back up to nearly $160 billion, despite the lack of a Soviet Union.As a result, the five main defence contractors Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon have had a wonderful five years.

It is therefore pertinent to provide guidance for the design of castings so that procurement and manufacture is a simple process.

The hardware used for the pilot did not belong to the Trust and so a procurement process was entered into with local trust information services.

But since then, the city has adopted almost a dozen so-called procurement reforms, and a review of that area may be more limited this year.

ING also announced that it expected to save 300 million euros a year by 2015 through so-called procurement initiatives, which will look to centralize purchasing across the firm to reduce costs.

So is collaborative procurement between universities – where they share facilities, resources and equipment – a better model?

Completing the fundamental reform of government procurement, so desperately needed, hangs in the balance.

I signed bipartisan legislation to reform defence procurement so weapons systems don't spin out of control.

So clumsy is procurement, for example, that the army waits longer and pays more for a Russian-built tank than foreign customers do.

We have been increasing transparency around government procurement so everyone can see what contracts there are and, each time, we are finding more opportunities.