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A strategic approach to sourcing what you need to keep your business moving can help avoid disruptions and stay competitive in today’s competitive market.

Be More Strategic About Your Supply Chain Sourcing
By Matt Ostrowski on Sep 1, 2015
A strategic approach to sourcing what you need to keep your business moving can help avoid disruptions and stay competitive in today’s competitive market.


A strategic approach to sourcing what you need to keep your business moving can help avoid disruptions and stay competitive in today’s competitive market.

Interrupted supply chains can mean costly delays and unsatisfied customers. A strategic approach to obtaining what you need to keep your business and products moving—whether you’re sourcing raw materials, manufactured accessories, or transportation capacity—can help avoid unforeseen disruptions and create a competitive advantage in today’s changing market. So just how strategic are you when it comes to sourcing transportation capacity? Ask yourself these four questions:

Can you break down your spending to the carrier level?
Can you rank your satisfaction with each carrier?
Do you know which carriers handle the majority of your freight? Do you know why?
Do you regularly try to improve the process you have with carriers?
If you answered no to any of these questions, there’s probably room for you to be more strategic when sourcing capacity. According to the Aberdeen Group’s report, How to Build a Strategic Sourcing Organization, there are five steps to follow when building your strategic sourcing program:

1. Understand your spending. Having sufficient visibility to where you spend your transportation budget is a critical first step. Without knowing what you spend your money on, you can’t move onto the next step.

2. Rank all carriers. Order your carriers based on how much you spend with each. You’ll probably find that the majority of your spending will be with only a small number of carriers.

3. Review the top carriers. Look at service levels, on time delivery rates, and other value adds for each. What aspects you compare may vary based on your own operational goals.

4. Change your buying habits. Armed with your new knowledge the carriers that have the most to offer your business—both in cost and added services—return to the market and secure capacity accordingly.

5. Never stop improving. Continue getting results by building on what you’ve achieved. There’s always opportunities to refine your process as you find carriers that align with your business.

Building your strategy should be about staying open to change as conditions shift so you can gain an effective, efficient, and cost-competitive supply chain. According to the Aberdeen Group, a strategic approach to sourcing can (and should be) applied to any part of your business if you want the best results. You can always start small—with one area of your business, like your supply chain—and eventually build up to an organization-wide sourcing solution.

By Matt Ostrowski on Sep 1, 2015

Designing, building, and maintaining machines of all types and sizes are Mechanical Engineering all about. Back in the days, mechanical engineering is only needed to harness a steam boiler engine as that was the only technology human kind depends on. However, M&E are the heart of today sophisticated technology.
Nowadays teenagers are most likely to choose engineering rather than doctorate because of what the industry can offer. Fresh ideas, creativity and innovation is what that makes the world go around. There  are a few key element in engineering that all the successful engineer need to master which is chemical, civil, and electrical engineering, as well as physics and advanced mathematics, particularly calculus. Quoted from Larry Silverberg, the associate head of the mechanical and aerospace engineering program at North Carolina State University “The breadth of mechanical engineering is unique”.
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Ewan Pritchard, head of the hybrid program at Advanced Energy, a company that recently unveiled the first commercially available plug-in hybrid vehicle said that ”The coming decade is going to be the decade of energy, and when you think energy, you think mechanical engineering”. Within M.E., there are four main subdisciplines —thermodynamics and fluids, solid mechanics, dynamics and controls, and manufacturing. Cross-disciplinary research dominates both academia and industry today that’s why we at Comfori Sdn Bhd provide training program for Engineering. To make sure the world to keep evolving and providing a better future.

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Taking a team from ordinary to extraordinary means understanding and embracing the difference between management and leadership.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

There are many styles of leadership, but the Democratic style has gained popularity with notions of an empowered workforce. But how do you get the best from such an approach? Whilst it has much to commend it, as a style of leadership it isn’t necessarily an easy approach to do well. Plus, it isn’t right for many types of business.

A democratic leadership style is an open approach to leading, where decision making is shared and the views of a team or group are valued and contribute to the vision, goals and decisions that are made. The Greek roots of the word democratic suggest people are participating in power or control.
Benefits Of A Democratic Leadership Style.


1, Invites discussion, opinions and views.
2, Builds a consensus.
3, Encourages the ideas and creativity of others.
4, Recognises that people other than the leader may well have ideas about a better way forward.
5, Creates a shared vision and goals.
6, Builds commitment as individuals agree together what needs to be done.
7, But there are limitations of the style. It can cause some of the following:-
8, Difficulties when quick decisions are needed in a crisis.
9, Confusion if communication is not clear about what or whether anything has been decided.
10, When people are in-experienced or don’t feel confident they may struggle with being asked to participate.
11, Some people may regard being asked as a sign that a leader isn’t leading – “I’m not paid to do this – you are!”.
When To Use A Democratic Leadership Style
e ideas and creativity of others.
4, Recognises that people other than the leader may well have ideas about a better way forward.
5, Creates a shared vision and goals.
6, Builds commitment as individuals agree together what needs to be done.
7, But there are limitations of the style. It can cause some of the following:-
8, Difficulties when quick decisions are needed in a crisis.
9, Confusion if communication is not clear about what or whether anything has been decided.
10, When people are in-experienced or don’t feel confident they may struggle with being asked to participate.
11, Some people may regard being asked as a sign that a leader isn’t leading – “I’m not paid to do this – you are!”.

mily:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A democratic leadership style is an open approach to leading, where decision making is shared and the views of a team or group are valued and contribute to the vision, goals and decisions that are made. The Greek roots of the word democratic suggest people are participating in power or control.


Benefits Of A Democratic Leadership Style

1, A democratic leadership style can be a powerful way to realise the potential within teams and organisations. That’s especially the case because:
2, It fits well with the current ideas of empowerment and engagement of staff.
3, It is particularly beneficial for helping get the best out of teams.
4, If fosters creativity and ideas.
5, It builds a sense of commitment and demonstrates that skills and expertise are valued.
6, It makes time to think about important decisions that need everybody to be on-board.
7, It is effective with knowledge workers where their expertise are greater than the leaders.

Cautionary Notes About Adopting A Democratic Leadership Style.
It can be demanding seeking to consult and achieve consensus.
It should not be an excuse for procrastination. Discuss, consult and then come to a decision and act. Avoid the situation of becoming bogged down in meetings that don’t go anywhere.
The democratic leader builds consensus through participation. If this style were summed up in one phrase, it would be "What do you think?" The democratic style is most effective when the leader needs the team to buy into or have ownership of a decision, plan, or goal, or if he or she is uncertain and needs fresh ideas from qualified teammates. It is not the best choice in an emergency situation, when time is of the essence for another reason or when teammates are not informed enough to offer sufficient guidance to the leader.
Bottom line? In my view, if you take two cups of authoritative leadership, one cup of democratic, coaching, and affiliative leadership, and a dash of pacesetting and coercive leadership "to taste," and you lead based on need in a way that elevates and inspires your team, you’ve got an excellent recipe for long-term leadership success with every team in your life.

So what are your views on democratic leadership? I’m interested to know how it has helped, or hindered you and your business, let me know.

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