ALSAFWA CEMENT COMPANY ( ASCC )
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of ASCC employees key areas , and building trust with people you believe can bring you the performance . The procurement team was split into three groups – industrial sourcing , general services sourcing , and performance activities , which give you the performance and evaluation of the way you ’ re managing your supply chain . We track a number of KPIs among the suppliers , assessing their performance , cost reduction for main strategic suppliers , and lead time between requests and orders as well as spend coverage .”
Bestani spent two years implementing a task force composed of people from main interacting departments of the company – plant , finance , and IT – making sure they worked intelligently and understood what their individual responsibilities were . It has meant enormous progress in terms of procurement , but it is a continuous task to keep people trained and engaged in their job role .
Bestani explains : “ I had to drive far-reaching changes . It ’ s not easy to accept that there are hurdles to overcome and a lot of convincing that
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