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🔍 Learning series #160 — Types of Injection Moulding Processes
Not all moulding is the same. Choosing the right process impacts part quality, cycle time, and tooling cost. We break it down by material class and process variants.
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🔍 Learning series #159 — Strategic Sourcing vs Category Management
Category management and strategic sourcing are often used interchangeably, but they represent distinct methodologies with unique objectives and benefits
Learn about the differences👇
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🔍 Learning series #158 — How to Negotiate: Tips, Strategies & Tactics for Better Outcomes
Negotiation isn’t just a skill for salespeople—it's essential for anyone dealing with deadlines, contracts, or complex conversations.
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🔍 Learning series #157 — Common Plastics for Injection Moulding
We explore 13 of the most commonly used plastics in injection moulding, covering their key properties, advantages, limitations, and typical applications.
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🔍 Learning series #156 — Procurement KPIs Explained
Procurement key performance indicators (KPIs) are essential for measuring the success of procurement activities.
Find out which KPIs matter most 👇
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👇 Learning series part 155 - Why CFOs Should Invest in Procurement?
Strong alignment between CFOs and procurement can drive competitive advantage, fuel innovation, improve efficiency, and bolster financial health.
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👇 Learning series part 154 - Metal Injection Moulding - Process, Pros, Cons & More
Metal injection moulding (MIM) combines injection moulding principles and powder metallurgy to produce components with exceptional strength and density.
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👇 Learning series part 153 - Category Management Explained
Category management is a powerful tool for strengthening supply chains, offering strategic benefits that extend across risk management, cost optimisation and supplier collaboration.
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👇 Learning series part 152 - Spend Analysis - Process, Tools, Trends & Best Practices
Spend analysis is the structured process of collecting, cleaning, classifying, and analysing procurement expenditure data.
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👇 Learning series part 151 - Metalloids
Metalloids possess properties intermediate between metals and nonmetals, making them irreplaceable for various applications. They hold significant importance in the manufacturing of semiconductors.
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👇 Learning series part 150 - Strategic Sourcing
Strategic sourcing is a proactive approach to supply chain management—analysing spend, building supplier relationships, and focusing on total cost to cut risks and improve quality.
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👇 Learning series part 149 - Where Does Procurement Belong in the Organisational Hierarchy?
Understanding procurement’s role is crucial to maximising its impact. But where should it report - CFO, COO, CEO, supply chain or operations?
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👇 Learning series part 148 - Injection Moulding - Process, Advantages & More
Injection moulding is a versatile manufacturing process that uses high pressures to force soft materials, such as plastics, into moulds to take on their shape.
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👇 Learning series part 147 - Demand Planning: A Comprehensive Guide
Demand planning is a strategic process that involves forecasting future customer demand and developing strategies to meet it effectively.
Read our in-depth overview 👇
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👇 Learning series part 146 - Inventory Management
Inventory management involves procurement, storage, and distribution to maintain optimal stock levels. Businesses use inventory management systems to track stock, manage data, and forecast demand.
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👇 Learning series part 145 - Forging - Process, Classification & Methods
Forging is a metal shaping process that applies heat and high pressure to create strong, defect-free parts with refined grain structures.
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👇 Learning series part 144 - Europe’s Supply Chain Workforce
Explore challenges like labour mobility and workforce shortages, and learn how trends in tech, education and sustainability are shaping the future of supply chain operations.
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👇 Learning series part 143 - Warehousing
Traditional warehousing, once about long-term storage, has transformed into a dynamic hub of warehouse operations where goods flow between storage, distribution and consumers.
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👇 Learning series part 142 - Bill of Materials
A Bill of Materials (BOM) is a product-specific document that provides a detailed breakdown of a product into assemblies and sub-assemblies. Think of it as a grocery list for your assembly.
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