Directory Iron and Steel Plants

The 2007 Directory Iron and Steel Plants, available with a searchable, 3.5 in. CD-ROM, is the black book; known industry-wide for its comprehensive details on North American steel producers and suppliers from around the world. The Directory includes information on capacities, products and equipment for more than 2,000 companies and 17,500 key personnel, with easy-to-use geographical indexing. A listing of associations and technical societies is also included. This publication is by the Association of Iron and steel technology. Be adviced that they also will have a directory for 2010.

pharmaceutical manufacturers directory review

This international directory of pharmaceutical manufacturers includes 1,046 pharmaceutical manufacturing firms in 50 countries. They are arranged alphabetically by country and company name. In addition to names and addresses, other information such as telephone number and fax number, and key personnel are also listed, where available. Completing the directory, is a listing of 124 Contract Manufacturers in 19 countries of ethical and/or non-prescription pharmaceuticals. These are also arranged alphabetically by country and company name.

Supplier Management Best Practice Handbook book review

Here is a practical guide to managing supplier performance. This book is a must read for all executives, practitioners or students of supplier manangement who are looking for ways to measure and improve the performance of their suppliers and reduce supply risk. Understanding the performance of suppliers is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network of a company or non-commercial organisation. This how-to-do-it book will assist you develop and implement an evaluation process to help you reduce costs, lower risk, and improve both the performance of your company and your suppliers.


This practically orientated text is based on ITIL V3 best practices that companies are using to evaluate suppliers and illustrates how to get beyond collecting data for the sake of data to achieving real results. It shows how to understand the meaning behind supplier metrics, and choose measurements that are meaningful both in the context of your goals and also for the supplier. The Supplier Management book helps you get at the root causes of supplier problems that even suppliers may be unaware of and enable them to make high-impact improvements.

Many firms do not know where to begin in the supplier evaluation process, what ways would work best, or even what kind of results they want to get. They know that they should be measuring supplier performance, but may not understand why or what they would gain from it. This book is geared for top managers at two types of companies: those who know that they should be measuring supplier performance but do not know where to start, and companies who want ideas about how to improve or revitalize a current program.



The Supplier Management Best Practice Handbook: contains:

1. Example Outsourcing Contract template
2. book Introduction Presentation - Supplier Management
3. Outsourcing - Sourcing Strategy Presentation
4. Outsourcing - Service Desk Presentation
5. Example Outsourcing - Service Levels
6. ITIL V3 Supplier Management Presentation
7. Service Delivery Model Options
8. Service Sourcing Structures
9. Sourcing roles and responsibilities
10. Supplier Management- Roles & Responsibilities
11. IT Outsourcing ITIL Process Assessment v2.1
12. Service Desk Outsourcing template
13. Outsourcing Transition Plan

The 2009 Internet Directory

Review of the The 2009 Internet Directory: Web 2.0 Edition 
The internet has become part of our daily lifes for a couple of years now. It is however changing and new technologies and even institutions came to life.




A whole new Internet has been created: new web tools, internet communities, video, podcasts, forums, mailing lists and many more! It is difficult to find these exciting “Web 2.0” destinations with old-fashioned Internet directories, unless you of course signed up with any of our directories. It will take you lots of precious time to find them via ordinary search engines. This were the 2009 Internet Directory - Web 2.0 Edition comes in it presents them in a comprehensive bundle with easy to use descriptions.

American Business directory

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