APD Strategic Cost Reduction Roundtable Series

APD periodically facilitates small group online roundtable for manufacturing executives on a variety of topics related to strategic cost reduction.  Click on the links below to read the discussion highlights from recent roundtables.

Click to read the discussion highlights from our most recent Executive Roundtables:

• Clawing Back Price Increases – Reversing economic price increases granted during the past two years, now that some commodity indexes are headed downward.

• Finding Mexican Suppliers – Lessons learned from Mexico sourcing projects over the past 18 months

• 2023 Purchasing Priorities – How companies are returning to a more strategic focus and setting purchasing priorities for 2023 to move beyond ensuring supply

• Developing the Purchasing Team – How companies are planning to elevate the skill sets of their purchasing teams in 2023