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The alliance between PSA Peugeot Citroën , Europe’s second largest auto maker by revenue, and General Motors Co. will result in collaboration in purchasing and design. read more

As activity in the oil sands charges forward, a Deloitte & Touche LLP report re-leased Tuesday highlights the labour-shortage problem facing the industry, advocating a new kind of collaboration between the companies doing business in the area. Read more:

As a Boeing executive laid out Tuesday the compelling growth prospects presented by the plane maker’s unprecedented production boom, managers of local aerospace suppliers listened intently. read more

DuPont and Suntech Power Holdings announced that they had entered into a strategic agreement with an overall goal of augmenting the supply of PV materials and technologies in the global solar energy market. read more

German companies plan cooperation on commodity sourcing HAMBURG, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Twelve German companies have joined the new German alliance aimed at securing raw materials supplies in the face of growing competition for key commodities, the Federation of German industry BDI said on Monday. read more

Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) — Elpida Memory Inc., facing a deadline to repay $1.2 billion of debt by April, may gain financial support for the second time in three years as Japan seeks to keep the company alive amid a slump in the chip market. read more

VANCOUVER, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Avcorp Industries Inc. is pleased to announce that Robert Coates, Senior Program Manager, F35 Program, Nick O’Bree, Project Engineer, NPI and Rick Sasges, Director Contracts & Proposals along with a team of BAE Systems counterparts were selected by a panel of BAE Systems Procurement officials to receive the Military [...]

The Purchasing Practice Linkedin group membership has doubled during 2011, celebrating its 6,000 member. This markes anouther great year for both Purchasing Practice and its Linkedin group. The groups aim is to help CPO’s persuade their organization to fully embrace the considerable opportunities that exist for increased added value and improved corporate performance through effective [...]

MedStar Health is joining forces with two other major health care systems to create a purchasing giant, continuing its efforts to consolidate expenses by reaching outside of its corporate walls for more buying clout. Columbia, Md.-based MedStar, which owns the District’s two largest hospitals, has agreed with Novant Health of Winson-Salem, N.C., and Sentara Healthcare [...]

HERNDON, Va., Nov 15, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Exostar, whose cloud-based solutions enable secure, cost-effective business-to-business collaboration, today announced its suite of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, including its Supply Chain Platform (SCP), Federated Identity Service (FIS), and Managed Access Gateway (MAG), are being deployed for Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII). [...]