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End Risky Email PO Acknowledgements: Kawasaki Rail Car's Supplier Portal Reduces Cost

Mar 30, 2017 | 1:00 PM1:53 PM CDT
Online
Included with membership

Host­ed by CDI Technology

Explore Kawasa­ki Rail Car’s dri­ve to excel­lence in buy­er-sup­pli­er rela­tion­ships.  Learn more about Kawasa­ki Rail Car’s thought lead­er­ship in cre­at­ing solu­tions for issues like infor­ma­tion integri­ty, effort reduc­tion, risk man­age­ment, and sup­ply disruption. 

Imple­ment­ing a sup­pli­er col­lab­o­ra­tion por­tal pro­tects their pro­duc­tion sched­ule from order issues relat­ed to deliv­ery date, order quan­ti­ty and price. Learn how they can con­fi­dent­ly know that their buy­ers and sup­pli­ers are all on the same page, down to the lat­est approved order or changed order line.

Key Dis­cus­sion Points:

  • Goals for Process Improvement
  • Impact on Buy­er — Sup­pli­er Relationships
  • Alert­ing Buy­ers to Pend­ing Risks
  • Improved Ele­ments of Sup­pli­er Nego­ti­a­tions and Order Management 

Speak­ers:

Geoff Webb, Pur­chas­ing Super­vi­sor, Kawasa­ki Rail Car

Brad Som­mer­feld, Enter­prise Archi­tect, CDI Tech­nol­o­gy