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Procurement Effectiveness at NATS

Overview This paper summarises the range of measures taken to improve CAPEX procurement at NATS. A recent procurement improvement programme has taken a very broad look at all supply chain management practices at NATS, including those relating to organisation, skills, processes, suppliers and tools. NATS procurement operations have subsequently been benchmarked against a number of leading edge organisations to generate a vision of future supply chain management.

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Publisher	Civil Aviation Authority	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2004	Downloads	10
Format	White Papers
Topics	Procurement and Sourcing

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