23 Feb 2009
Unilever has signed a contract with IBM to support the management of procurement for its European non-production items (NPI) operation.
The deal is expected to allow the consumer goods manufacturer to improve management as well as enhance business governance and process compliance over a two-year phased programme.
Unilever's European procurement system will receive additional functionality from an integrated procure-to-pay process, which it is hoped will drive significant benefits.
Routine elements of Unilever's NPI procurement will be serviced by IBM from Hungary and the hosted global procurement system will be implemented in Europe with maintenance services carried out in India.
This follows the two firms' existing relationship in procurement implementations for other regions and the current finance business services agreement in Europe.
Unilever Pakistan makes an enormous profit from the country's best-selling tea brands Lipton & Brooke Bond, but doesn't take responsibility for any of the tea workers who produce it. The workers are 100% outsourced, so they are 100% disposable. They are casualties of a scheme that blends the world's biggest tea brands, Lipton & Brooke Bond, with insecurity, injustice and poverty wages, in my opinion.
If you'd like to help these workers to break out of poverty, then go to the Casual-T website and send a protest message to Unilever!
http://www.iuf.org/casualtea/
Posted by: Hidayat 24 Feb 2009
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