BravoSolution Customer Unilever North America Recognized for Transportation Management Tools.MALVERN, Pa. -- BravoSolution, the premier provider of global supply management solutions, today announced that long-time customer Unilever was awarded Aberdeen Group's Executive Stewardship Award for achieving performance heights due to direct involvement and leadership from executive management. Unilever was awarded the prize based on its best-in-class approach to transportation spend management, which features BravoSolution's Collaborative Sourcing solutions. Unilever produces a wide range of food and home and personal care products, offering dozens of household brands including Dove, Suave suave adj. suav·er, suav·est Smoothly agreeable and courteous. 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Ann Deming, Transportation Manager at Unilever US, Inc., received the award at Aberdeen Group's annual Supply Chain Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) Summit, an annual gathering that allows senior supply chain executives to collaborate with their peers and discuss current topics in SCM. "We are pleased to be recognized by Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. and it reflects well on our BravoSolution system which has been invaluable to our organization for the past six years," said Ann Deming. "BravoSolution's ability to deliver sophisticated transportation spend management solutions has enabled Unilever's transportation team to drive excellence throughout our business." "We are delighted to congratulate Ann's team and the Unilever community in general for this well-earned recognition," said Chandler Hall, Vice President, Collaborative Sourcing at BravoSolution. "We applaud Unilever's commitment to integrity and continuous improvement in transportation spend management." Unilever's transportation spend management process, which was highlighted as a best-practice case study in Aberdeen Group's recent transportation sourcing benchmark report, "Achieving Closed Loop Transportation Spend Management," is a best-of-breed solution, bringing together leading solutions in various areas to create a single, integrated system. The BravoSolution component provides for proposal collection and optimization-based analysis, contract creation, performance monitoring and data management. Other components of the solution deliver load tendering, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. and audit and payment capabilities. BravoSolution has worked closely with Unilever to deliver best-of-breed sourcing and supply management tools for over a decade. During this time, BravoSolution has helped Unilever to execute more than 50 sourcing events across multiple transportation spend categories, including Truckload truck·load n. The quantity that a truck can hold. truckload n → camión m lleno , LTL LTL - Linear Temporal Logic , Intermodal, Ocean, and Small Parcel. ABOUT BRAVOSOLUTION BravoSolution helps procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. professionals to drive Supply Management Excellence with a combination of software, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and category expertise. Our mission is to generate value by supporting our clients in the improvement of procurement processes to drive their companies' strategic objectives. Founded in June 2000 by the Italcementi Group, BravoSolution delivers valuable results to its numerous customers worldwide through its offices in China, France, Netherlands, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the UK and the US. BravoSolution has a team of more than 350 professionals serving over 400 clients in 20 countries and its supply management software has been used by over 12,000 procurement professionals worldwide. |
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