German supply focus poses trade threat to UK business
3 April 2012
UK firms should pay more attention to their supply strategies or they could lose business to German companies.
A study of 180 purchasing heads in the UK, Germany and France, each handling around 900 suppliers a year, found that an average of 48 per cent report directly to the board.
But German firms were the most progressive, with 71 per cent reporting to the board, compared with 52 per cent in the UK and only 23 per cent in France.
Graham Opie, director of...