"Thales Alenia Space : better relationships between Purchasing and Projects" - Supply Chain Magazine, March 2008
"Purchasing department of the #1 European satellite manufacturer had one idea in mind when they decided to deploy BEAM-REPORT, a lightweight software solution for internal reporting. They wanted to improve the global coordination of purchasing teams together with the development projects teams...."
..."The result is a greatly enhanced communication flow between the buyers and the satellite project leaders they work for: less emails and panic phone calls as soon as a problem occurs. Now relations are based on information sharing."
..."If we had used traditional email or traditional template-based text reports, we would have never been able to reach the level of performance we have now."
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