Procurement in the public eye
13 September 2012
It has been an eventful year for purchasing at home and abroad, with strikes, government ‘waste’ and efforts to rebuild Iraq. David Arminas looks back at the main stories
Purchasing began and ended the year in the same place: in the headlines. But at the Nissan car plant in Sunderland, purchasers were on the move instead. They had warned of strike action at the end of 2003 over an impending move to its Bedford-based research centre. Nissan’s desire to embed procurement best practice into its design phase was proving painful for...